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Article Evaluation[edit]

1906 San Francisco earthquake

Cited Sourcing:

- There are two full paragraphs within "Impact" section that have no cited source at all. Where did they get all of that information from?

- Within "Response", the first two paragraphs have no citations at all.

- Checked Notes and Reference sections, most seem to be academic based.

Distractions

- One distracting side note this article has was "they have been found...to be due to large seasonal sediment loads" because they did not elaborate how that matters toward the 1906 quake. The article would be fine without it.

Feedback

- The author makes no personal claims, and states different predictions of death tools, destruction, etc. using multiple sources that he found.

- Good use of quotes (i.e. "Aftermath", second paragraph).

- Seems to be updated frequently (last update was 19 Oct 2017).

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Wikipedia Article: Disaster Studies[edit]

Types of disasters
1. natural vs. unnatural
2. arguments of whether or not all disasters are human caused
  1. Impact zones, "a building's damage from an earthquake depends on its structural resilience and intensity of earthquake shaking." (Lindell)
what parts of disasters we should study
1. Pre-impact
  1. Hazard exposure
    1. People living in certain areas that specific events could threaten lives / property.
  2. Physical vulnerability
    1. Human vulnerability
      1. susceptibility to environmental extremes
      3. agricultural vulnerability, sturctural vulnerability.
  3. Social vulnerability.
    1. Preparation (i.e. evacuations, flood walls)
2. Trans-impact
  1. Tornado moving, hurricane winds arriving.
3. Post-impact
  1. Recovery (i.e. emergency response operations, disaster recovery,

BRAINSTORM KEY IDEAS:

Natural disasters, hurricanes, tornados, physics, atmospheric sciences, education, geography, geology, earthquakes, disaster studies, informing, reporting, news briefs.

Disaster Studies - Lindell, Michael K. Current Sociology 09/2013 Vol 61, Issue 5-6

- Disaster concentration: pre-impact, trans-impact, post-impact. Can also have multiple or secondary.

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What should we study? Questions and suggestions for researchers about the concept of disasters. E.L. Quarantelli, 1987. International journal of mass emergencies and disasters 5 (1987)7-32

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