We live in an uncertain world. Hazards and risk are common. The world is a complex system. How can we understand and manage our exposure to hazards and risk? How can we recover when the worst happens? The world wide web offers many new possibilities. In this course, we will discuss a number of examples, drawn from the field of natural hazards -- earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and the like -- as well as hazards in other fields as time permits.
lecture_1_introduction_2.pptx 
From the Japan Times:
Japan’s nuclear industry growing but likely to miss government’s 2030 target
by Aaron Sheldrick and Osamu Tsukimori
The domestic nuclear industry will miss a government target of providing at least a fifth of the country’s electricity by 2030, analysis shows, but the sector is showing…
more… Video from Windy.com and the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/local/weather/super-typhoon-yutu-ap...
Hurricane Willa is set to strike Mexico within days. Life-threatening storm surges are expected.
Read More: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/203506.shtml?cone
Washington Post (October 18, 2018): "Throughout early fall, Alaska has been oddly warm and pleasant. The cause of the freakishly nice weather has been massive high pressure anchored over and around the state. One of the strongest on record for…
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"JAKARTA — Just 34 minutes after Indonesia was hit by another major earthquake, officials called off a tsunami warning. Aid agencies and others — still dealing with the aftermath of a devastating quake in August — breathed a sigh of relief.
What they didn’t know was that, just about that same time, a 10-foot wall of seawater was tearing through the city of Palu and other areas Friday on an island in the center of the vast Indonesian archipelago.
Amid the roar of onrushing sea and terrified cries…
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NASA disasters program is at https://disasters.nasa.gov
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