Objective information regarding naturally occurring hazardous events like earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes encompasses their causes, characteristics, frequency, predictability, and impact. For example, understanding plate tectonics provides insight into the occurrence and... Read more »
Information regarding naturally occurring hazardous events, such as earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes, encompasses verifiable data on their frequency, magnitude, impact, and underlying causes. For instance, data on the average annual number... Read more »
The Chernobyl disaster, a catastrophic nuclear accident, occurred on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). The... Read more »