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Displaying 13 of about 13 resultsBy Megan Rowling
London - Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday.
The total was almost double the 2011 number, as major floods hit India and Nigeria last year, accounting for 41 percent of global di…
Por Vicente Sandoval
Chile es un país que históricamente ha sufrido de amenazas naturales, como son las erupciones volcánicas, terremotos, deslizamientos de tierra, inundaciones y sequías, entre muchas otras, las cuales de alguna u otra forma han desencadenado los llamados desastres “naturales”.
La reciente erupción del volcán Chaitén en el 2008, q…
The Red Cross is this week continuing to assist with two major operations to get thousands of people out of the way of active volcanoes.
The Indonesian island of Bali is in its highest state of alert after the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency said an increase in seismic activity at the Mount Agung volcano suggested it could erupt.…
By Catherine Wilson
Madang, Papua New Guinea - For 11 years, the people of Manam Island, a volcano rising out of the Bismarck Sea around 15 km off Papua New Guinea's north coast, have waited to be resettled after fleeing devastating eruptions in 2004.
In July this year, another eruption inflicted more suffering on several thousand people who had retur…
New research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that ‘shadow networks’ linking volunteers with authorities can help keep some of the millions of people living near dangerous volcanoes safer.
These informal networks see community members working in close collaboration with scientists and government officials on monitoring, communications, trai…
The University of the West Indies (UWI), Seismic Research Centre, has recently accessed financing from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) under the Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund towards the implementation of the Volcano-Ready Community Project in Saint Vincent and The Grenadines.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is among the most disaster-pr…
The recent volcano eruptions have tested the progress of Indonesian disaster management reform which began in 2007 at the national level. There are still many outstanding issues, according to Jonatan A. Lassa, RSIS writing on the website of East Asia Forum.
First, the response system should target vulnerable populations, such as the elderly. In the Sin…
There’s an estimated 100 people living with a disability on Savo Island in Solomon Islands, and with a high risk of natural disasters, planning is happening now to make sure everyone is included.It’s been almost 200 years since the last known eruption of the volcano on Savo Island, but recent activity has moved disaster preparedness sharply into focus,…
By Anthony Reid
Mount Agung’s rumbling may or may not portend a massive eruption on the scale of a century. Fortunately the probability this time is for great disruption to air traffic, tourism, and the local economy, rather than massive death and homelessness.
But among the constant eruptions of Indonesia’s many volcanoes (66 currently being monitor…
A new model that simulates the behavior of surging ash clouds may help scientists to better predict the hazards associated with the deadliest type of volcanic flows.
By Terri Cook
The deadliest and most destructive phenomena associated with volcanoes are pyroclastic flows, fluidlike avalanches of hot gases, ash, and rock fragments that race down volca…
Save the Children has coordinated with Philippine authorities in helping to evacuate thousands of residents to safety in the communities near the lava-oozing Mayon volcano, which experts believe could soon intensify into a major eruption.
“We are working with the government to make sure children and families are safe from a potentially life-threatening…
In his blog post for Alertnet, George Fominyen talks about his experience in Buea, a small town at the foot of Mount Cameroon, on the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, "Although geography lessons in Cameroon include the study of volcanoes, there is little or nothing about telling signs of an imminent eruption of Mount Cameroon an…
Guatemala’s July eruption of the Volcano of Fire marks its sixth major eruption of 2017, during which time the University of Hawaiʻi–managed Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) and national agencies finalize new tools to help make better decisions faster.
Home to three dangerous volcanoes, frequent earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and landslides, Guatemala…