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...cite book|title=California Earthquakes: Science, Risk, and the Politics of Hazard Mitigation|url=https://archive.org/details/californiaearthq0000gesc|url-acc ...[epicenter]] of the earthquake, categorized by various [[seismic intensity scales]] such as the [[Rossi-Forel scale]]. ("Size" is used in the sense of the qu ...

...es is undesirable. For instance, thermoacoustic instabilities are a major hazard to [[gas turbines]] and [[rocket engines]].<ref name="culick-06" /> Moreov ...her=AIAA|author1=Lieuwen, T. C.|author2=Yang, V.}}</ref> They represent a hazard to any type of combustion system. ...

...n important part of the assessment of [[strong ground motion]]s, [[seismic hazard]] and [[Engineering Seismology|engineering seismology]] in general. Damage * [[Seismic hazard]] ...

...405|issn=2329-9339|doi-access=free}}</ref> Researchers at the MCEER (Multi-Hazard Earthquake Engineering research center) have identified four properties of ...ovides an $11 benefit for every $1 invested.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Natural hazard mitigation saves: 2018 interim report|last=Porter, K.|oclc=1091223472}}</re ...

...produce products with minimal hazard regulations, maximizing emissions and hazard production. Fairtrade has sought to improve international standards through ...re compared to vegetarian consumption. It can be seen that meat production scales the impact of feed production(transportation and pesticide use), and makes ...

...rporating climate change and morphological uncertainty into coastal change hazard assessments|journal=Natural Hazards|language=en|volume=75|issue=3|pages=208 ...ble patterns of coastal evolution at millennial [[Geologic time scale|time scales]], and the outdated and erroneous concepts relied upon as a universal equil ...

...arliest use of the word "risk" was as a synonym for the much older word "[[hazard]]", meaning a potential source of harm. This definition comes from Blount's [[Occupational health and safety]] is concerned with [[occupational hazard]]s experienced in the workplace. ...

...given ''pre-test probability'' to the given ''likelihood ratio'' in their scales, which, in turn, estimates the ''post-test probability'' at the point where Usage of [[hazard ratio]] can be used somewhat similarly to relative risk. ...

...ly divided into horizontal and vertical currents and exist at a variety of scales and in various layers of the atmosphere.}} ...arency is often practically invisible and therefore presents a significant hazard to drivers and pedestrians.}} ...

...y [[physics]] was the probabilistic nature of physical phenomena at atomic scales, described in [[quantum mechanics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Why is quantum m ...[[functional safety]] for the proportion of failures that are either non-[[hazard]]ous or detected automatically. The opposite of SFF is the proportion of un ...