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Displaying 3000 of about 9451 resultsPreparations have been stepped up for a major disaster in northern Israel following a warning by the Ministry of Health of an expected earthquake.
Hospital chiefs and representatives of northern health maintenance organizations were instructed by Mr. Avi Yisraeli, Ministry director-general to prepare immediately for the possibility of a major tremor. P…
In observance of the national disaster consciousness month, the province of Siquijor through the Office of the Civil Defense 7 has conducted workshop to all line agencies at the Salagdoong Beach Resort earlier this week.
Members of the Philippine National Police, local officials, health, agriculture and from the academic were among the participants of…
In a speech, Chinese President Hu Jintao showed particular concern over disaster prevention and reduction and called for 'giving priority to the study and to forecasting' of natural hazard-related disasters.
President Hu made the proposals during a speech given at the joint inaugural ceremony of the 14th Congress of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and t…
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports on the challenges ahead for the National Emergency Management Agency to implement the disaster prevention act implemented in 1998, pledging to reduce damage from natural hazards. The paper cites delays and budget issues as one of the biggest hurdles facing its disaster risk reduction efforts.
A new disaster museum could explain to the general public the causes and effects of natural calamities, through a better understanding of the human component of any catastrophic event.
Such a museum could also broaden the people's viewpoint, by providing an insight on other countries' experiences in disaster risk reduction and management.
The Cebu Daily News reports on national dialog among participants of the 3rd National Multi-stakeholder Dialog on Disaster Risk Reduction to support of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
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Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action: a call for China and Japan to step up cooperation on disaster prevention and reduction.
At a workshop in Hanoi on May 27, the deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Dao Xuan Hocof said that the central Government has authorized local administrations to initiate mobilizing and using financial sources for disaster prevention and management.
Vietnam has suffered frequent natural disasters, over 7000 lives have been lost in…
With the number of disasters that take place in India’s neighbouring countries, there is a great need for contingency planning on India’s part.
by Mihir R. Bhatt
The enormous loss of life in collapsed schools around China’s quake-stricken Sichuan Province could have been significantly reduced using known methods for designing or retrofitting structures in earthquake zones, several experts on global hazards said Tuesday.
'Every natural disaster is a reminder that knowledge is power. If we know what could happen, then we have no excuse for not doing something about it.'
Tim Radford
New research suggests that few people, if any, should be asked to leave their homes after a big nuclear accident, which is what happened in March 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
This is the main finding of a multi-university research study led by Philip Thomas, Professor of Risk Management at the University of Bristol, involving…
When a massive earthquake struck in 2011, Japanese oyster fisherman Atsushi Fujita was working as usual by the sea. Soon after, a huge black wave slammed into his city and killed nearly 2,000 people.
Seven years on, Fujita and thousands like him along Japan's northeast coast have rebuilt their lives alongside huge sea walls that experts say will protec…
By Michael Taylor
KUALA LUMPUR - Thousands of families on Vietnam's typhoon-battered coast will receive free storm-proof houses, which can help pull them out of poverty, government and United Nations officials said.
Vietnam is one of 10 countries most affected by climate change, according to the latest annual Climate Risk Index published by the resear…
By Michael S. Steckler, Seth Stein, S. Humayun Akhter, and Leonardo Seeber
Many developing nations in earthquake-prone areas confront a tough problem: How much of their limited resources should they use to mitigate earthquake hazards? This decision is difficult because major earthquakes are infrequent, and it is unclear when one m…