"One is an acute intense disaster, the other an insidious chronic impact of heat stress," Dr. Balbus said.
San Andreas, a blockbuster which stars Dwayne Johnson and is rated PG-13 for "intense disaster action and mayhem throughout," opens in theaters across the country on Friday, May 29.
In other words: the destruction on the house may cause more long lasting intense sources of stress while intense disaster experiences are relative acute and time limited.
Further increases in carbon dioxide are likely to have a profound effect on climate, scientists say, leading to higher seas and greater coastal flooding, more intense weather disasters like droughts and heat waves, and an extreme acidification of the ocean.
These expansive studies combining historical and scientific information are shedding new light on the mysteries of the past, but they are also a useful guide to preparing for climate-related challenges of the future, especially in the wake of increasingly intense natural disasters.
City officials maintain that given the intense rains, the disaster could not have been avoided.
In a smaller but almost equally intense way, the disaster has pervaded every part of the school day for the 510 students — 80 percent of them Haitian — at SS. Joachim and Anne, the Roman Catholic elementary school in Queens Village, Queens, a hub of New York's Haitian community.
MPAA rating: PG-13 for intense battle sequences, disaster-related action and brief sexual content.
Thanks to improved technology, intense media scrutiny of disasters and the realisation by transport operators that disasters are bad for business, stepping into a plane or a train is a far safer experience than it was in the past.
A disaster with intense damage causes grave consequences in the post-disaster situation that requires a greater amount of resources for rebuilding, and often the process of rehabilitation is slow.
