Natural Disasters

You have been assigned the article:

Mills, Brian, Unrau, Dan, Parkinson, Carla, Jones, Brenda, Yessis, Jennifer, Spring, Kelsey and

Pentelow, Laurel Assessment of lightning-related fatality and injury risk in Canada. Natural Hazards

47: 157-183, 2008.

This article can be found in the Journal Articles folder in the Homework #2 section on the BLS

course homepage under the file name: LightningCanada

You need to carefully read and understand this article, and then answer the following questions. Note

this will involve finding, reading and understanding one or more of the articles listed in the reference

section of your paper.

1. Explain the difference between positive and negative CG flashes.

2. How is lightning distributed spatially and temporally in Canada?

3. What reasons do the authors give for the decrease in lightning deaths over the past century?

4. List the ways that lightning can cause injury or death.

5. What kind of person is most likely to be killed by lightning?

6. From Lewis (1997), what body tissues are most commonly affected by lightning strikes?