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Disaster Preparedness

A resident secures the roof of his house to a tree in preparation for Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Candon City, Ilocos Sur province, north of Manila, on September 13th, 2018. The super typhoon, a Category 4 storm, roared toward the Philippines on September 13th, packing fierce winds and heavy rains that are expected to strike the disaster-prone nation during the weekend before moving on to China.

A resident secures the roof of his house to a tree in preparation for Super Typhoon Mangkhut.

By Pacific Standard Staff

President Donald Trump is pictured following a briefing on Hurricane Florence in the Oval Office at the White House on September 11th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

If recent federal disaster response is any indication, the president's boast is wildly misleading.

By Emily Moon

First responders tend to exercise victims, playing the role of earthquake casualties, during the 2017 Great California Shakeout earthquake drill at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, California, on October 19th, 2017.

A major seismic event in the state is an inevitability, but is the government doing enough to prepare for the disaster?

By Richard Aster

Flooded homes are shown near Lake Houston following Hurricane Harvey on August 30th, 2017, in Houston, Texas.

Recent extreme weather events show how the outdated and imperfect information systems used by cities exacerbates the devastation.

By Clark Miller, Thaddeus R. Miller & Tischa Muñoz-Erickson

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Scientists are using satellites to identify where increasing sea levels could result in the most destructive storm surge as hurricanes grow more powerful due to climate change.

By Erica Cirino

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The U.S. Virgin Islands sit squarely in Hurricane Alley. Irma will test the storm-weathered islands' limits.

By Kate Wheeling

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By Pacific Standard Staff