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Displaying 15 of about 189 resultsExperts reflect on building collapses in the wake of the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes and the importance of earthquake-resilient design in both the U.S. and Türkiye.On Feb. 6, 2023, two major earthquakes — with magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.5 — occurred nine hours apart in the southern region of Türkiye. As of March of the same year, an estimated 3 million people…
Disaster losses would be cut if children knew what to do, they say
Geneva (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) - Children can and should play a crucial role in disaster risk reduction, a panel of children from disaster-prone regions told the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this afternoon.
Children from Ethiopia, Japan, Viet…
"Il dato sulla vulnerabilità sismica delle nostre scuole – dice senza mezzi termini – non lo sa nessuno. L’unico dato noto riguarda la certificazione del collaudo statico ordinario: il 60 per cento delle scuole ne è sprovvisto. Facile immaginare che la situazione sia ancor più grave per quanto riguarda specificamente la sicurezza sismica, soprattutto se…
This Time magazine article warns that, although there is a historic precedence and the possibility of a powerful earthquake hitting the Italian capital, the city is not at all prepared for it. The public and school communities do not have emergency plans and there is no discussion about reinforcing modern earthquake codes in the housing industry. The au…
"Earthquake experts said the scientists had been unfairly scapegoated for failing to predict the unpredictable," writes Stephanie Pappas for LiveScience regarding the manslaughter verdict for six Italian scientists and one government official accused of being too reassuring about the risk of an earthquake prior to the deadly temblor in 2009 in L'Aquila,…
By Lorenzo Piccio, GFDRR
As extreme weather becomes the “new normal” in the Balkans, governments and communities across the region are striving to better understand the climate and disaster risks they face so that they can put in place the appropriate policies and strategies.
It was against this backdrop that hundreds of experts and pra…
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Realizzare un grande laboratorio internazionale di studi e sperimentazione costituito da ricercatori e scienziati che studiano le conseguenze del sisma sullo sfaldamento della società: è lo scopo dell’ultimo progetto realizzato per L’Aquila dai sei club service locali, che si sono uniti per "dare una scossa alla città", scrive IlCapoluogo.…
A conference held by the United Nations atomic energy agency today called for stronger national and international measures to ensure the highest and most effective levels of nuclear safety in the wake of the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant three months ago.
Safety standards should be continuously reviewed, strengthened and implemented…
The Building Code of Turkey has been revised. Almost 120 experts contributed to the whole document and all activities were coordinated by a permanent building code committee consisting of 15 members. The new Turkish Building Earthquake Code is a comprehensive revision of the previous one dated 2007. The new code consists of 17 chapters. Most of them are…
Engineers from Heriot-Watt’s Institute for Infrastructure and Environment have designed a ‘sacrificial device’ for buildings that will absorb the impact of earthquakes or blasts, preventing collapse and reducing the damage and residual drifts that can render buildings uninhabitable.
Current European ‘earthquake-proof’ buildings were designed to prevent…
The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the National Technical University of Athens announced today the signing of a research agreement to collaborate on a project to protect museum objects in the event of an earthquake, beginning with the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
This initiative is the latest t…
By Elif Ayhan, Artessa Saldivar-Sali and Alanna Simpson
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” This was the response given by Sir Edmond Hillary when asked how he and his companion Tenzing Norgay became the first to summit Mt Everest, when so many before had failed. He believed we could all overcome our biggest challenge simply by deciding…
"We are going to increase development aid to Nepal. And quite a lot of money will go into disaster risk reduction," Alan Duncan, UK Minister of State for International Development told República after his visit to earthquake prone localities in Chhetrapati area of Kathmandu this week.
"If an earthquake hits Kathmandu it would be a total disaster. Becau…
"The quake was yet another reminder that the damage and death toll from a 'natural' disaster often has much less to do with the strength of a quake or a storm than it does with the preparations — or lack thereof — among victims," writes Bryan Walsh for the Time.
"With earthquakes — as with so many other problems — we rarely give prevention enough empha…
Across the world, severe earthquakes regularly shake entire regions. More than two billion people live in danger zones – many of them in structures not built to withstand an earthquake. Together with partners from industry, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research WKI are developing building materials designed to prevent buildings from…