In an increasingly connected world, focusing on the local hazards is only part of what we should be doing.
almost instantly today. If there is a big earthquake or eruption or typhoon, we find out about it in near real-time, with journalists on the scene, government agencies posting information and social media tweets and the like spreading images and videos rapidly.
Geologic events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that are large enough to become disasters tend to happen on a years to centuries timescale. We do tend to see damaging earthquakes each year with truly disastrous ones on a decadal or half-decadal timescale. We can lump tsunamis in with this as well, although truly damaging tsunamis might occur every decade or few decades. Landslides happen on timescales that might be only weeks to months between damaging events.
Damage after a landslide in March 2018 near Cusco, Perú. Credit: Galeria del Ministerio de Defensa del Perú / Wikipedia.How big of an area that a natural hazard can impact varies widely. You can think of the track of a damaging tornado across the landscape, where only a few hundred feet across are devastated, or a landslide taking out a row of houses at the bottom of a slope. Earthquakes and eruptions can completely destroy cities and areas covering hundreds of square miles.
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