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    Disaster Characteristics and Management Stages The purpose of this paper is to examine a recent natural disaster. The number of natural disasters has risen dramatically in the past two decades. Natural disasters are increasing exponentially and creating expanding amounts of destruction each year. A recent natural disaster to examine is the flooding in Louisiana August 2016. This paper will discuss the type of disaster, characteristics of the disaster, and the application of disaster management

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    Boston Molasses Disaster

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    ------------------------------------------------- Hitesh Rana ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Boston Molasses Disaster The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave

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    Prepared and implement a disaster recovery plan. The value of a Disaster Recovery or control plan is the ability to react to a threat or event swiftly and efficiently. This can be achieved when a department has informed staff, disaster supplies and planned procedures. Proficiency The key to having a comprehensive disaster prevention and recovery plan is to draw from all these resources procedures/plan One of the primary resources we have identified, not from a records management perspective but also

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    For an organization to properly and effectively handle a disaster several keys steps must occur, the first is creating and documenting proper policies and procedures to implement once the disaster recovery plan is implemented. The second is creating an executive summary of the DR plan that will outline the overall plan. The last key step is identifying teams and individuals that will be part of and responsible for the disaster recovery plan and process. The DR team member will be on call and will

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    Sometimes government bodies, corporations, and the like fall short in instituting preventative systems to avert a disaster, oftentimes causing the general populous to be inadequately prepared should a catastrophe occur. This action is due to an overall shift in emphasis from preventative measures to preparedness in disaster planning. In “Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared,” Andrew Lakoff articulates that today’s crises management involves the development of methods that could be used

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    Castle Bravo was a disaster because it was one of the most serious nuclear fallouts in history. It’s test series was conducted by the United States on the Bikini Atoll, and Marshall Islands. It was part of a series called Operation Castle. It was detonated on March 1, 1954. It was a major disaster because it is believed to be the strongest nuclear bomb the U.S has ever conducted. It is believed that it was a thousand times stronger than the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1945.

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    previous failures, it stimulates innovation, new ways to approach and triumph over obstacles. The purpose of this report is to highlight significant engineer failures over history. Many of the disasters occurred in the latter half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. Starting with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, three aerospace related accidents, Challenger, Apollo 13, and Mars Climate Orbiter. As well as the radiation machine, Therac-25, and the more recent Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Each of

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    Have you ever imagined the end of the Earth? Let’s take the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 for example, and look at how the explosion affected some parts of the world. Large areas were affected by the Chernobyl explosion. Many things and properties were destroyed because of this. People, animals, and plants were affected by the explosion and it made many suffer. It took many people to begin cleaning up the mess, and they got sick. There is still a lot of damage there. It’s very scary to know that an

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    The Three Mile Island disaster of 1979 was the most serious commercial nuclear power plant accident in the United States. Located in Pennsylvania, a reactor at the plant melted partially on March 28 1979. This disaster brought changes involving emergency response planning, human factors engineering, reactor operator training, radiation protection, and other nuclear power plant operations (United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2014). In addition, the regulatory oversight was tightened by the

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    domains among the history, including the Disaster of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, the Japanese asset bubble in late 1980s and the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in 2010. The research draws upon final reports of NASA, related magazines and published books. Looking through the lenses of those catastrophes, the analysis reveals the tremendous loss and effect of system failures and gives a lesson to avoid similar disasters in the future. Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster On February 1st, 2003, Space Shuttle

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