Most of the respondents feel that they are insecure from all kinds of disasters (Figure 9), but the maximum insecurity is associated with earthquake, storm, hail, drought, and extreme rainfall.
In an article for Society and Space, geographer James Sidaway points out some of the metaphors we use when we talk about a financial crisis: "meltdown," "earthquake," "storm," and "tsunami," to name a few.
In comparison, biophysical aspects of vulnerability refer to topography, environmental conditions, land cover or hazards like earthquakes, storm or sea level rise.
The pearl-tinged tower was insured against earthquakes, storms and floods.
Nothing was as satisfying to visitors as conversation on two topics: California's inherent goofiness and its penchant for delivering regular doses of calamity, whether in the form of earthquakes, storms or fires.
Today's earthquakes, storms and floods which make up the bulk of the natural disasters that insurers worry about are doing more damage than yesterday's did, but that is because they hit a world in which there is more valuable property that is likely to be insured, not because the disasters themselves are getting worse.
The plan also calls for a fleet of underwater robots that will travel toward volcano eruptions, earthquakes, storms, and any number of other events to collect data.
Striking six months to the day after the Jan . 12earthquake, the storm underscored for the camp's residents just how vulnerable they remain.
Catastrophe bonds linked to earthquake and storm risk have been sold to investors, and so has contingent capital, in the form of callable equity.
The database could be used in a time of emergency, like an earthquake or storm, to connect people in need with others in the community who can help.
Mindful of how Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, planners are also focusing on the possibility that a big earthquake or storm could break crucial levees and allow saltwater from the bay to inundate the delta, which could shut off a large source of the freshwater supply for months.
