Forecasting Hazards and Building Resilience

Scientists forecast natural hazards by collecting data on their locations, magnitudes, and past frequency, then using that data to identify which hazards can be predicted in advance, like hurricanes, and which currently cannot, like earthquakes. Communities build resilience through technologies and choices like reinforced building codes, tsunami and flood warning systems, and reservoirs designed to reduce drought and flood impacts, both for hazards that cannot be reliably predicted and for the damage that predictable hazards still cause.

This explanation is AI-generated and can occasionally be wrong. 🚩 Report