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Displaying 135 of about 800 resultsIn May 2021, Tajikistan was hit by torrential rains that triggered floods, landslides, and mudflows across much of the country. The worst impact was felt in the Tebalay River watershed, home to more than 300,000 people, where a deluge of uncontrolled water tragically led to loss of life and significant infrastructure damage.
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The 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal triggered more than 22,000 landslides, the equivalent of more than 200 years of ‘normal’ landsliding. The earthquake fundamentally changed the physical landscape in Central-West Nepal: some land was destroyed, some was rendered uninhabitable, and in some locations the risk of future landslides was unkno…
This study investigates the social capital features of Etanwala and Mandaramnuwara villages in Sri Lanka since the communities residing in these villages have effectively adapted to landslide disasters. Landslide disasters occur suddenly, causing multiple socio-economic burdens on developing countries. Preserving and enhancing adapting capacity of…
Amir Beg Khusrawi still has vivid memories of a flash flood that swept through his village in Afghanistan’s rugged northeast a decade ago.
“[It] destroyed around 20 houses, claimed livestock, and damaged our agricultural lands so that even now we are not able to use them,” says Khusrawi, 61.
His experience is not unique. In remote settlements across A…
As a disaster-prone country, Indonesia has long been familiar with natural hazards. Even before advanced technology arrived, our Indonesian ancestors developed their own ways to prevent and mitigate disasters – and to live in harmony with natural hazards. This local wisdom has been passed through generations and still remains effective.
One example of…
Landslides are complex phenomena that cause significant loss of life and damage to buildings and infrastructure. Over twelve per cent of the Indian land mass is prone to landslides, directly impacting settlements, roads, strategic trade corridors, and heritage sites. Forecasting rainfall-induced landslides is a challenging yet essential task that can pr…
This Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Educational Kit (NDRR) in Arabic has been developed with the view to enhancing the coping capabilities of disaster prone communities in the Arab States region as well as the dissemination of the technical knowledge in natural disaster reduction to build the capacities of educational institutions, students, and teache…
On 5 September 2022, Luding County in Sichuan Province, China was struck by a shallow (depth=16 km) Ms=6.8 earthquake. The area consists of steep mountain terrain, and the earthquake occurred at the end of the rainy season, so landslides were inevitable. In a new paper just published in the journal Landslides, Ma et al. (2023) provide an initial descrip…
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Disasters associated with seismic and volcanic activities which are peculiar to orogenic zones occur frequently in the whole Pacific Rim. In addition, catastrophic sediment disasters caused by heavy rains and big typhoons are occurring increasingly in recent years as a result of climate change. People in the orogenic zones had to live with disa…
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While Malaysia appears unaffected by the most extreme weather events such as earthquakes, hurricanes and forest fires, it remains vulnerable to the threat of floods, landslides, haze and water pollutions. Up till August 2018, Malaysia has experienced 51 natural disaster events in the last two decades where 281 people died, over three million peop…
Nepal is vulnerable to landslides due to the landscape’s geological fragility and steep terrain, unsustainable development practices, and extreme rainfall events. Each year, economic losses and the loss of lives from landslides constitute a significant portion of Nepal’s disaster loss database.
The Gorkha Earthquake on 25 April 2015 and subsequen…
The Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Knowledge Manager Discussion Forum organises an online discussion on gender and disasters. The issue explored in the event is: What should governments, aid agencies and businesses do differently to protect lives and put women and girls at the core of disaster ris…
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Though landslides are a natural occurrence, they can be triggered by ill-conceived development and settlements in high-risk areas. In many developing countries, construction of roads in river basins and mountainous areas causes landslides and leads to erosion and sedimentation.
Mountainous areas make up 70% of Japan, making it highly suscepti…
The author, Asaduzzaman Rassel, analyzes the impact of disaster on children's lives, as well as their involvement in disaster risk reduction activities. He reports that 47 percent of the total population in Bangladesh are children. Disaster not only kills children, but disrupts their households and learning centers, injuring them physically and mentally…
Manila - Extensive logging and mining are being blamed for severe flash-floods that submerged large parts of the southern island of Mindanao this month.
At least 35 people died, and farms and infrastructure suffered severe damage, officials said.
Of the island’s 20 provinces, the worst affected were in the north, including Misamis Oriental, Lanao del…