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Subject: About cap:event_cat
Friends - Having wrestled with this item for some time in conversation with a number of folks, I've been unable to locate a comprehensive and universal categorization of alert-worthy events. Maybe the best we can hope for is one that's conventional. Here are four options: OPTION I - Adopt the scheme developed for the Disaster Help Portal: - biological: an intentional or accidental disaster event caused by a biological agent such as anthrax. - chemical (Used For: poison, pollution, toxic, hazmat, contamination): an intentional or accidental disaster event caused by a chemical agent such as a poisonous gas. - civil (Used For: refugee, riot, war) - disease (Used For: epidemic, pandemic) - drought (Used For: climate, water) - earthquake - electric utility (Used For: power outage, blackout) - explosion (Used For: bomb) - fire (Used For: wildfire, forest fire, urban wild-land interface) - flood - food (Used For: famine) - gas utility - hurricane (Used For: tropical cyclone, typhoon) - internet (Used For: cyber crime, cyber attack, cyberspace) - landslide (Used For: avalanche, mudslide) - nuclear - ocean or coastal (Used For: iceberg, tsunami, coastal hazard, algal bloom) - oil spill - radiological (Used For: nuclear reactor, dirty bomb) - severe weather (Used For: blizzard, dust storm, hail storm, heat wave, lightning, storm, snow storm, wind) - space (Used For: asteroid, geomagnetism, magnetic storm, space weather) - terrorism - tornado - transportation (Used For: airplane, highway, ship, train, aircraft) - volcano (A long list, a bit of a mixed bag of causes and effects, but at least it stands on an honorable precedent.) OPTION II - Use the twelve Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) as defined in the Federal Response Plan: 1 - Transportation 2 - Communications 3 - Public Works and Engineering 4 - Firefighting 5 - Information and Planning 6 - Mass Care 7 - Resources 8 - Health and Medical 9 - Search and Rescue (yes, I'm cheating a bit here, since ESF-9 is actually "Urban Search and Rescue" but that strikes me as possibly a bit too restrictive for our purpose.) 10 - Hazardous materials 11 - Food 12 - Energy (This would shift the focus from the nature of the event to the response systems which might be engaged. It's relatively compact.) OPTION III - Stick with (or fine-tune) the existing list from previous CAP drafts: "Geo" - Geophysical (inc. landslide) "Met" - Meteorological (inc. flood) "Safety" - General emergency and public safety "Security" - Law enforcement, military, homeland and local/private security "Rescue" - Rescue and recovery "Fire" - Fire suppression and rescue "Health" - Medical and public health "Env" - Pollution and other environmental "Transport" - Public and private transportation "Infra" - Utility, telecommunication, other non-transport infrastructure "Other" - Other events OPTION IV - Dispense with this item altogether. That would leave automatic filters with the geographic targeting and the Urgency/Severity/Certainty cube, but it would make it harder to implement specialized alerting functions. (Then again, are specialized alerting functions a solution or a problem?) Your thoughts? - Art
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