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International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 2, no. 3 (1984): 345–368. Nogami, Tatsuya, and Fujio Yoshida. "Disaster myths after the Great East Japan Disaster and the effects of information sources on belief in such myths." Disasters 38, no. Supp 2 (2014): S190-S205. Quarantelli, E.L., and Russel R. Dynes.
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Natural and technological disasters are also distinguished from ecological problems based on their sudden and crisis generating nature. The second section examines how popular thinking affects disaster planning and how some hazard research has tended to conceive of sudden type disasters in agent specific terms.
It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one included in the Eridu Genesis, and an episode from the Atra-Hasis Epic. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood story from the Epic of Atra-Hasis. [1]
There have been several legends and myths surrounding the RMS Titanic and its destruction after colliding with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. These have ranged from stories involving the myth about the ship having been described as "unsinkable" to the myth concerning the final song played by the ship's musicians. [1]
Lucy Easthope is a British expert and adviser on emergency planning and disaster recovery. [2] She is a former Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard at the University of Durham, and co-founder of the After Disaster Network at the university.
The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural disaster or other catastrophe so that it causes less harm, the avoided danger will be perceived as having been much less serious because of the limited damage actually caused.
Plato makes reference to great floods in several of his dialogues, including Timaeus, Critias, and Laws.In Timaeus (22) and in Critias (111–112) he describes the "great deluge of all", specifying the one survived by Deucalion and Pyrrha, as having been preceded by 9,000 years of history before the time of Solon, during the 10th millennium BCE.