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Displaying 120 of about 209 resultsTime: 08:00 – 10:00 hrs (New York); 14:00 – 16:00 hrs (Geneva); 19:00 – 21:00 hrs (Bangkok)
The medium of the meeting will be English.
Objectives of the First Meeting of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Disaster-related Statistics (IAEG-DRS) are as follows:
To cultivate a common understanding of the objectives, functions and deliverables o…
Time: 9:45 to 11:30 AM (GMT +5:45)
Session Chair: Dr. INDRAJIT PAL, Chair, Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, AIT Bangkok
Featured Speakers:
"Accelerating Restoration from Disaster: the case of Flooded Homes."** Dr. DAVID N BRISTOW, Cities and Infrastructure Systems Lab, University of Victoria
"Resilient urbanism from the perspectiv…
This study assesses the exposure and risk of existing and planned railway assets to river flooding and earthquakes for the Belt and Road. Mitigating the disaster risk of transportation infrastructure networks along the Belt and Road is crucial to realizing the area’s high trade potential in the future. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI),…
A deep spatiotemporal neural network trained on more than 36,000 earthquakes offers a new way of quickly predicting ground shaking intensity once an earthquake is underway, researchers report at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)’s 2021 Annual Meeting.
DeepShake analyzes seismic signals in real time and issues advanced warning of strong shaking…
Boston College seismologist John Ebel and his colleagues have noted a pattern for some large California earthquakes: magnitude 4 or larger earthquakes occur at a higher rate along a fault in the two decades or more prior to a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake on the fault.
The findings prompted Ebel in 2017 to suggest a prospective test. He looked for…
Data from a GPS network in Colombia have revealed a shallow and fully locked part on the Caribbean subduction zone in the country that suggests a possible large earthquake and tsunami risk for the northwest region.
The locked patch south of Cartagena city is capable of generating a magnitude 8.0 earthquake every 600 years, said Sindy Lizarazo of Nagoya…
Rising temperatures and risky development contribute to heightened exposure to earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfire
More than half of the structures in the contiguous United States are exposed to potentially devastating natural hazards—such as floods, tornadoes and wildfires—according to a new study in the AGU journal Earth’s Futur…
The first earthquake-tsunami observation system for Istanbul, a city where a “big one” is expected to hit in the near future, was opened Monday. The station, equipped with multidisciplinary measurement systems for seismic data, will provide an early warning “between five to seven minutes” in case of a tsunami in the aftermath of an earthquake, authoriti…
Researchers have developed a global earthquake monitoring system that uses the Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) to measure crustal deformation.
The monitoring system within seconds can rapidly assess earthquake magnitude and fault slip distribution for earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 and larger, making it a potentially valuable tool in earthqua…
Research from Italy presents new metrics for resilience to improve outcomes of Italian students affected by devastating earthquakes.
By Lauren Koenig
When the L’Aquila earthquake devastated Central Italy in 2009, the Italian government relocated thousands of citizens and L’Aquila’s 36 schools to temporary locations in the suburbs. More than ten years…
By Zuzana Stanton-Geddes, Martina Vojković, and Sunčica Pleština
This scene may seem like the opening of a blockbuster superhero movie, but it is actually what happened on March 22, 2020 - when the strongest earthquake in 140 years hit Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, and its surrounding areas. As a result of the 5.5 magnitude earthquake, 1 person died,…
A fault line crossing the coast of three districts on Istanbul’s European side has been “going through abnormalities,” according to experts who warn that the line might likely “break” and cause tremors.
Professor Haluk Özener, director of Boğaziçi University’s Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, the leading authority on earthquake d…
By Marika Katanuma
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Over the past decade, the island nation has weathered about 20% of the world’s “strong” earthquakes (magnitude 6 or greater) as well as multiple tropical storms a year. The worst of these events can be utterly devastating: The 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which triggered a massive tsunami and a…
By Will Harvie
Landslides are significantly more dangerous than earthquakes, according to an analysis by GNS Science. It had identified 1800 fatalities over the past 160 years caused by landslides or slips, which is significantly more than earthquake casualties over the same period, said Jo Horrocks, the Earthquake Commission's chief resilience and re…
By Olivia Nielsen, Sabine Kast, Guilaine Victor, Mark Broughton, and Lucienne Cross
As the saying goes: earthquakes don’t kill people, poor quality construction does. In many countries, building practices tend to be deeply embedded cultural norms; but if disasters occur due to human error, then we have the power to correct our mistakes and save countle…