Global InformationRohn emergency scale information
The Rohn emergency scale[1] is a scale on which the magnitude (intensity)[2] of an emergency is measured. It was first proposed in 2006, and explained in more detail in a peer-reviewed paper presented at a 2007 system sciences conference.[3] The idea was further refined later that year.[4] The need for such a scale was ratified in two later independent publications.[5][6] It is the first scale that quantifies any emergency based on a mathematical model. The scale can be tailored for use at any geographic level – city, county, state or continent. It can be used to monitor the development of an ongoing emergency event, as well as forecast the probability and nature of a potential developing emergency and in the planning and execution of a National Response Plan.
- ^ Rohn, Eli and Blackmore, Denis (2009) A Unified Localizable Emergency Events Scale, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response Management (IJISCRAM), Volume 1, Issue 4, October 2009
- ^ "FEMA Intensity Scales". Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ^ Gomeza, Elizabeth; Plotnick, Linda; Rohn, Eli; Morgan, Jon; Turoff, Murray (2007). "The US is replacing its historical federalist". 2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07). p. 23. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2007.557.
- ^ Plotnick, Linda; Gomez, Elizabeth; White, Connie; Turoff, Murray (May 2007). "Furthering Development of a Unified Emergency Scale Using Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment: A Progress Report". ISCRAM. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.103.5779.
- ^ Turoff Murray and Hiltz Roxanne (2008). Assessing the health information needs of the emergency preparedness and management community. Inf. Serv. Use 28, 3–4 (Aug. 2008), 269–280.
- ^ Turoff, M., White, C., Plotnick, L., and Hiltz, S. R., Dynamic Emergency Response Management for Large Scale Decision Making in Extreme Events, Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008, Washington D.C. May.