Strengthening tropical cyclones are associated with more frequent hazardous material pipeline failures in the Eastern US
Elizabeth Carter, Marilyn Smith · 2025
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Elizabeth Carter and Marilyn Smith link stronger tropical storms to pipeline failures in the eastern United States in this 2025 study. More than thirty thousand hazardous material pipeline failures since 1970 have caused nearly eleven billion dollars in damage. Storms are thought to cause many failures, yet official reports rarely blame nature, which hides the true share.
The team matched failures in time and place against storm tracks, correcting for background failure rates. About a third of eastern failures fell within sixty days after a storm crossed the lines. Failures grew both more likely and far more frequent as storm strength rose. Since 1975, storm-linked failures have grown ten fold in yearly count, while the strongest storm crossing pipelines climbed a full category. The authors urge better cause reporting.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elizabeth Carter, Marilyn Smith |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 81 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |