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Natural Hazards
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AGU News 23 February 2021

Building Equity into Hazards Research

In the March issue of Eos, we look at how scientists who study earthquakes, floods, and other hazards are factoring people into their models.
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Natural Hazards
Shops line a street running through a small town in upstate New York.

Opinion 23 February 2021

Building Resilience in Rural America

People in rural communities are often hit disproportionately hard by natural hazards, largely because of in-equitable and inflexible risk reduction policies. But there are ways to change that.
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Natural Hazards
New Orleans, La., houses surrounded by debris and floodwater from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Science Update 23 February 2021

Assessing Social Equity in Disasters

Natural hazard impacts and resources allocated for risk reduction and disaster recovery are often inequitably distributed. New research is developing and applying methods to measure these inequities.
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Natural Hazards
A road south of Wasilla, Alaska, and the ground around that was shattered by back-to-back magnitude 7 and 5.7 earthquakes.

Feature 23 February 2021

Where Do People Fit into a Global Hazard Model?

By incorporating human systems, scientists are modeling geohazards with equity in mind.
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Natural Hazards
A sign hangs on a tree in front of a house damaged by Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., in 2018.

Feature 23 February 2021

Natural Hazards Have Unnatural Impacts—What More Can Science Do?

As disadvantaged communities suffer disproportionately from natural hazards, scientists, policymakers, and emergency managers explore why policies are failing—and what can be done about it.
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Natural Hazards
An antenna setup towers over a residential house in Los Angeles, Calif.

Science Update 22 February 2021

Amateur Radio Operators Help Fill Earthquake Donut Holes

Ham radio networks gear up to provide real-time, on-the-ground information about earthquake shaking and damage when other communication pathways are knocked out of commission.
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Ocean Sciences
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News 19 February 2021

Weighing Inputs of Waves and Precipitation to Coastal Erosion

Conducting weekly lidar surveys of coastal cliffs for 3 years enabled a California team of coastal erosion researchers to quantify and separate marine effects from subaerial effects.
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Geology & Geophysics
Photo taken from the International Space Station of Shikoku Island and other parts of Japan

Research Spotlight 19 February 2021

An Innovative Approach for Investigating Subduction Slip Budgets

A new 3D model offers a state-of-the-art look at the full spectrum of slip behaviors in the Nankai subduction zone off Japan.
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Geology & Geophysics
Plot showing the average number of shallow earthquakes near Parkfield, California, from 2006 to 2014

Editors' Highlights 19 February 2021

Why are Earthquakes on the San Andreas Seasonally Modulated?

There is growing evidence that some earthquakes occur seasonally but also that water loading cannot explain these observations.
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Geohealth
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News 17 February 2021

Ocho lecciones del COVID-19 para guiar nuestra respuesta climática

La respuesta global de la pandemia en curso puede enseñarnos cómo deberíamos y no deberíamos responder la crisis climática. Y lo más importante aún, demuestra que podemos hacer algo.
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