TAGGED : disaster planning and response
Officials worry about confusion with Alaska’s tsunami-warning alert system
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Confusion around an emergency alert received by Alaska residents in areas not at risk of a potential tsunami after a major weekend earthquake could shake public confidence in the warning system, local officials said.A magnitude 7.2 earthquake about 70 miles (111 ...
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This isn’t the first time Hollywood’s been on strike. Here’s how past strikes turned out
NEW YORK (AP) — The common refrain is that there's nothing Hollywood loves so much as its own history — but that's a history inextricable from <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/hollywood-strikes/">its labor movements.</a>As the industry comes to a momentous halt ...
Mexico Lost at Sea
Archaeologists in Louisiana save artifacts 12,000 years old from natural disasters and looters
VERNON PARISH, La. (AP) — Long buried under the woods of west central Louisiana, stone tools, spearpoints and other evidence of people living in the area as long as 12,000 years ago have become more exposed and vulnerable, due to hurricanes, flooding and looters.This summer, archaeologists ...