Background

The extreme weather events are becoming more visible as the world enters the anthropocene era. With correct analysis of events happened past, can be used for a preparation of upcoming natural hazard. To observe the events happened in the past 70 years, the data were extracted from FEMA, where they stored disasters happened in the past since 1950s including human caused incidents.

Slide with Bullets

• Natural Hazards are becoming huge concern of communities around the globe
• Studies show Natural Hazards are more visible as the world enters the anthropocene era
• USA FEMA shows the disasters happended since 1950s until present

Slide with R Output

First graph shows natural types of disaster happened since 1950s. As it can be seen from the graph, the number of each event has been steadly increased over time . However, some of the years had more number of events happened. Second graph shows top 5 Natural Hazard occurred since 1950 in USA. As it can be observed from the graph, the most occurred is Flood and follow by Tornado. If the data had records of heatwaves or extream heat events, it would have been the most hazard happened

References

Ruddiman, 2013, ‘The Anthropocene’, The Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol.41, pp45-68

Akhtar, R, 2020, ‘Extreme Weather Events and Human Health International Case Studies’, International Case Studies Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

“ANTHROPOCENE.” Issues in Science and Technology 34, no. 3 (2018): 64-73. Accessed August 23, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26594266.

FEMA, ‘OpenFEMA Dataset: Disaster Declarations Summaries -v1’, last accessed 10th Aug 2021, https://www.fema.gov/openfema-data-page/disaster-declarations-summaries-v1

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