Industry Highlights

Every few months it seems as though a new form of extreme weather comes to the forefront.  This time, it’s a fire tornado, but this is just the latest in a long line of strange weather [...]

New innovations in natural disaster mapping are starting to come to fruition.  Natural disasters such as landslides and earthquakes can quickly alter landscapes, which presents logistical [...]

Fascinating.  I’ve heard a lot in recent years about artificial intelligence, augmented reality, machine learning, and virtual reality, but the term augmented intelligence is a new one for [...]

Yes, you read that correctly – the Federal government is working on an initiative to incorporate asteroid threats into emergency plans.  From solar storms to space junk, it seems space has its [...]

As if the loss of life and property that often results from forest fires is not enough, a new study indicates that fire events can also contaminate the local drinking water supply.  This is an [...]

Most of my blog posts revolve around utility disaster planning, but there are definitely things we can learn by analyzing emergency preparedness efforts in other sectors.  As such, let’s take a [...]

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), a division of the Department of Transportation, is actively soliciting feedback to improve the upcoming 2020 edition of the [...]

Verizon is known as an innovative and progressive company, and their secret disaster relief cave in Kansas City is just another example of this.  The cave – known as “The Farm” – stores backup [...]

Ya know, it’s always something.  Scientists and grid operators are currently struggling with developing a response plan for solar storms, which could cause widespread power outages.  In fact, the [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently released a new earthquake study, specifically focused on the effects of a hypothetical scenario involving a magnitude 7.0 quake around the Hayward Fault [...]