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The researchers showed that a pattern can be highlighted as such devastating earthquakes seem to be hitting the region every 130 to 150 years.
As part of COP25, MEP released report detailing climate change effects on Israel, from a rise in natural disasters, to forced migration, and increased border tensions.
Personalizing disaster alert applications to fit the individual user could dramatically improve civilian preparedness in events like the Wednesday earthquake that devastated central Italy, says an Israeli research team. The optimal alert might use different sounds, texts, images and vibrations tailored to fit the individual user, both before and after the event occurs.
Yeshayahu Bar-Or, deputy director-general of the Environmental Protection Ministry, took the opportunity to make a call for disaster prevention: 'The name of the game is risk management, and we want to reduce the risk. As long as there is a forest, there is a risk for fire'...
More than 80 international experts from 16 countries gathered on last weekend in Acre for UNESCO's second annual World Heritage Workshop on 'Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage Sites'...
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