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Displaying 1180 of about 1180 resultsBy Rebecca Carey, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania
A code red alert level for aviation has been issued this week on Hawai'i’s big island, as Kīlauea volcano continues its explosive activity at the summit.
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s warning for Kīlauea said:
“At any time, activity may become more explosive, increasing…
By Amanda Glassman, Liesl Schnabel, and Rebecca Forman
On May 8, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared a new Ebola outbreak. To date, the DRC’s Ministry of Health has reported 34 cases of Ebola. And reports suggest the outbreak could spread from its current, remote location to more densely populated areas. While n…
By Kim Steutermann Rogers
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It’s more than just lava
Eruption temperatures can reach 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, plenty hot enough to burn homes and forests to the ground. But even if lava isn’t marching down your street, potentially lethal rates of sulfur dioxide gas may be present up to a half-mile away from the eruption site. Then, there is…
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr Nigel Clarke, says Jamaica will develop a Public Financial Management Policy for Natural Disaster Risk prior to the end of its Precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF.
The policy, Clarke said, will be combined with a ten-year operational plan for its implementation and wil…
By Julia Rawlins-Bentham
As the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season approaches, disaster management officials will have additional ways of alerting the public about impending weather conditions and other hazards.
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) was officially launched on November 10, 2017, and is designed to allow emergency officials to share…
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, Louisiana, - Standing in the long grass on the land where he was born, with the sea now lapping just meters away, Chief Albert Naquin remembers Isle de Jean Charles as a wonderful place to grow up.
"It's like night and day - we were totally self-sufficient here. Now you have to go off the island to survive," he said of his communi…
Legacy Mediums Like TV & Web are Leaving Communities Wanting More
McLean, Va. – Despite an uptick in national disasters over the past few years, members of the general public still admit they are not fully prepared, a new survey finds. Fewer than half of national respondents to an Ipsos survey have obtained or accessed basic information t…
With much of the central plains and Midwest now entering peak tornado season, the impact of these potentially devastating weather events will be shaped in large part by how individuals think about and prepare for them. A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal shows that people's past experiences with tornadoes inform ho…
LA SOUFRIÈRE, St. Vincent and the Grenadines – The University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Center (UWI-SRC), in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO), recently launched a project to prepare communities to manage potential impacts of La Soufrière Volcano and related hazards.
The “Volcano-Ready Communities…
The Ecuadorean Red Cross has begun scoping work for a new German-supported forecast-based financing (FbF) programme to centre on the danger from volcanic ash clouds.
The ERC is the first National Society anywhere in the world to deploy FbF for this hazard.
Ecuador has several active or eruptive volcanoes and the FbF assessment mission focuse…