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Catastrophic mass movements are large and rapid mass wasting events such as landslides, rockslides, and rock avalanches. Although they are often believed to occur with no warning, catastrophic mass movements are often preceded by subtle changes such as...

A disaster (from Middle French désastre, from Old Italian disastro, from the Greek pejorative prefix dis- bad + aster star) is the impact of a natural or man-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment. The word disaster's root is from...

A catastrophe is just around the bend; do you have a plan? A phone rings very early one morning, and after a groggy hello, you find it is the on call employee. You imagine a system crashed. She tells you about a...

Numbers to relate to BY ITS NATURE, THIS MAGAZINE adamantly focuses on local topics, but sometimes there are international events that are of such staggering impact that they cannot be overlooked. The world, in effect, becomes local. Such events are so overwhelmingly...

If a terrorist attack seems unlikely in your corner of the world, what about a fire, a flood or a computer virus? Is your business ready? According to a study commissioned by Office Depot ODP, 71% of small-business employees work every day where there's no...

Government: Bodies hadn't even been pulled out of the river in the Minneapolis bridge collapse before President Bush was being blamed. But sticking it to Bush is infantile. Civic priorities are what need re-examination.As a matter of fact, the president cannot repair every pothole or...