Sentence examples for disaster severity from inspiring English sources

Fema director Craig Fugate has developed a rougher gauge for disaster severity: the Waffle House index.

Not all outbreaks are treated equally, however, as western media coverage of humanitarian disasters is not always correlated with disaster severity (23, 24).

It is important to note that the six empirical studies analyzed here were heterogeneous for a number of characteristics, mainly the resilient outcomes, which precluded a meta-analysis on this sample of studies, but also on the disaster types and disaster severity.

Besides analyzing disaster severities in terms of fatalities and extent of affected population, analysis of the disaster frequencies also revealed interesting results in identifying the countries/regions that are more exposed to the various types of disasters.

The fire is long extinguished and the ruins cooled, but in an indication of the disaster's severity, the recovery and decontamination effort — on a scale Quebec has rarely seen — has erased relatively little of the destruction.

Most of the red ink was caused by just two disasters whose severity was indicative of climate change - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

| Updated The final report is out and Roger Pielke, Jr., has a helpful post on the vital fine print.] To my eye the summary accurately reflects the body of science aiming to find a signal of greenhouse-gas influence on climate extremes and disaster frequency and severity (the full report is still being finalized).

After the disaster, although the severity of pain did not change, the impact on daily life because of migraine became significantly worse (p < 0.001).

Across diverse countries and disaster types, the severity and frequency of exposure to disaster-related traumatic events was found to be one of the main predictors of psychopathology [ 12].

Roll the Dice: Students research the probabilities of disasters and their severity in their region and invent a game of chance to demonstrate their findings.

With climate-fueled disasters growing in severity and frequency, we must examine how these catastrophes will ramify socially and politically.