Improving Crisis Prediction, Disaster Control and Damage Reduction
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 08:49
in Earth & Climate
Earthquakes, homicide surges, magnetic storms, and the U.S. economic recession are all kindred of a sort, according to a theoretical framework presented in the journal CHAOS. Researchers in the United States and Russia contend that these four types of events share a precursory development pattern that can be detected and tracked, possibly improving crisis prediction.