Sand was used instead of solid clay. Sheet pilings driven in to hold them were too short to hold. This disaster was man-made. Given properly engineered and constructed levees, we’d have seen a ...

"We're trying to prevent natural disasters, but we seem to always face this potential man-made disaster of not acting timely enough." If the NFIP experiences a lapse in its authority, it will not ...

The Lexington, North Carolina, resident had to cut short her yearly vacation with ... be packed for Friday lunch. “This is a man-made disaster, and, yes, people are very upset,” she said.

In the wake of any sort of disaster, whether natural (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis) or man-made (e.g., car attacks ... I am talking about acute or short-lived disasters, events that start and ...

Around 88 percent of hams quit the hobby, thinking this band too weak and too short to allow them any ... If a natural or man-made disaster takes out power, Internet, or phone lines, “We ...

If prices fall expectedly, short sellers make a killing. Hindenburg, which invests its own capital, takes such bets based on its research, which looks for "man-made disasters" such as accounting ...

An analysis of studies published by the National Institutes of Health found man-made disasters were "associated with significantly higher odds of PTSD than natural disasters." The studies it ...

Antony Loewenstein talked about his book, Disaster Capitalism, in which he takes a critical look at companies like Halliburton, G4S, and Serco that make money off of natural and man-made disasters ...