Weather disasters and quakes: who’s most at risk? The analysis below, by Sperling’s Best Places, a publisher of city rankings, is an attempt to assess a combination of those risks in 379 American metro areas. Risks for twisters and hurricanes (including storms from hurricane remnants) are based on historical data showing where storms occurred. Earthquake risks are based on United States Geological Survey assessments and take into account the relative infrequency of quakes, compared with weather events and floods. Additional hazards included in this analysis: flooding, drought, hail and other extreme weather.

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Sysomos.com, social media monitoring and analytics company decided to take a closer look into how social media was used during the Queensland, Australia floods?.

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The earthquake in Haiti last January was devastating. Eight months later, massive flooding struck Pakistan. This is look at how countries and major organizations around the world responded to both disaster.

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This infographic made by Juan Pablo Campusano graphic designer from Chile, Santiago. It shows us a month of the Twitter explosion in Chile right after the earthquake hit the country. He had the experience to live it, and the Twitter community made a strong impact by delivering information an movilizing people to help the ones who received no help.

Sadly, to this day there are still lots of people without a place to live.

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Natural disaster for home owners in America.

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BP admitted today its managers on the Deepwater Horizon missed key warning signs in the hours before the explosion aboard the oil rig, but an internal investigation put much of the blame on other companies involved in the well.

A 234-page report described eight main causes for the blast, which killed 11 men and created an environmental disaster. The full report also contained - within the detailed analysis of the operation - a comprehensive, minute-by-minute timeline of every event, as it happened. BP have also produced a graphic video animation.

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An animation of six months of 2010 New Zealand earthquake data. Blue circles represent seismic activity recordings. Each event leaves behind a small red dot to show the overall pattern. The animation ends a few days after the 7.1 quake that hit Christchurch on September 4.

How to protect you home from storms.

This infographic was done after the earthquake in Haiti to explain how earthquakes happen and why they occur more often in some places than others.

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