A nationwide emergency alert test last week proved less than perfect with a number of technology and local coordination mistakes.

A small but easily accessible book has plenty of information on first aid and other crises.

The National Research Council presented a 20 year road map to preparing the country for earthquakes, including quietly testing new warning systems.

Denial is not a strategy for keeping your operation running. Let alone recovering from an emergency. If you don't yet have compliant and up to date Emergency Action, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Crisis Communications Plans, let Hurricane Irene be your wake-up call.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said that Japan underestimated the hazard posed by tsunamis to nuclear plants but praised the country's response to the Fukushima Daiichi crisis as "exemplary."