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Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth

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Re: Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth

#26

Hasn't it just been 1 day since a Cat 4 hurricane? it says 6.

Yeah. I posted this on another such thread, but the date it is using is apparently the date the storm was declared a tropical depression. This isn't a reasonable interpretation, if you ask me. If you ask a human who was just hunkered down in a closet in FL trying to ride out Ian "how many days since the last Cat 4?" their answer is going to be "One."

Re: Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth

#28
“In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution is the probability distribution of the time between events in a Poisson point process, i.e., a process in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate." [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution

Re: Days Since Incident – tracker of natural disasters on Earth

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, where do you see this called a “disaster”?

The site linked in the post list these as natural disasters

It also lists Fukushima as a “natural” disaster so the usage is a bit liberal
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