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'This incident puts in clear evidence the fragility of megacities in every aspect: physical, social, economic and ecological,' said Fouad Bendimerad, head of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative, an international scientific organisation that analyses disaster risk, in an AFP report...
A 1.5-million-dollar grant announced by the World Bank today is intended to finance a 'comprehensive flood management master plan' to reduce the impact of floods on Metro Manila and prevent disasters such as the storms that hit the country in 2009, reports AFP...
'If people had not settled on the river banks, definitely the disaster would have been less, because that is the main cause of the disaster,' said Salvano Briceno, director of the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction...
Andrew Gully reports for Agence France Presse on how the the survivors of the Haitian earthquake are now preparing themselves for the risk of major flooding...
'2008 is a terrible year. There have already been more victims than in the tsunami' said Salvano Briceño, head of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat, based in Geneva....
Careful preparations together with lessons learned from previous earthquakes limited the damage caused by the latest major tremor to hit northern Japan yesterday....
The survivors of the 12 May earthquake in the Sichuan province reported mass migrations of thousands of frogs and toads just before the disaster....
The trees would "fight storms, tidal surges, floods and droughts" in a "natural way" said the head of Government, Fakhruddin Ahmed in Dhaka on Saturday during the launch of the project.
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