Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

When disasters hit, they can mean days to weeks without power, and sometimes they allow just enough time to grab a bag of supplies and go. Now is the time to prepare, well before the disaster is on ...

Click the downloadable graphic: U.S. Billion Dollar Disaster Climatology The U.S. was hit with a record 28 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2023. These events resulted in an estimated ...

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As my L.A. County Fire partner and I were trying to get ahead of the flames, we drove up a narrow road into a canyon neighborhood above the endless sea of homes in the flat valley below. Appropriately ...

It is widely argued that seismic activities have intensified in Japan since the Great Hanshin earthquake (the Kobe earthquake) in 1995. And amongst the subsequent major earthquakes, the 2011 Tohoku ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. Disaster victims get big tax benefits from federal disaster ...

More and more people are building their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites. As residential areas expand into relatively untouched wildlands, these ...