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Displaying 60 of about 65 resultsMIPT researchers Leopold Lobkovsky and Raissa Mazova, and their young colleagues from Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University have created a model of landslide-induced tsunamis that accounts for the initial location of the landslide body. Reported in Landslides, the model reveals that tsunami height is affected by the coastal slope and the position o…
GENEVA, 15 August 2016 - A new report highlights the lessons of Japan’s 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the world’s deadliest catastrophe in a decade, and underlines how they fed into the creation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The study by a team of leading international researchers wraps up the thr…
Kobe, 25 June 2019 – The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitment (SFVC) first Synthesis and Analysis Report was launched in Geneva during the recent Global Platform. Voluntary Commitments (VCs) are made by multiple stakeholders (private sector, local governments, civil society organizations, academia, media, etc.) in support of the implementation of the S…
Earthquakes and landslides in the Ionian Sea could trigger tsunami waves as high as 2.5 meters (8 feet) on the southern coast of Italy, according to tsunami models presented at the December 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Chicago and published in a recent report from the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition. The study focused on the…
GENEVA, 8 June 2012 - The magnitude 4.0 earthquake recorded off the coast of Antigua on 11 May is "a warning that the Caribbean should prepare for a much more severe earthquake to come," says a leading expert.
Seismologist Joan Latchman of the Seismic Research Unit in Trinidad and Tobago said: "Caribbean islands lie in an area of relatively high earthq…
Research over the past decade in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has offered surprising insights into the pulses of great earthquakes that generate dangerous, often long-distance tsunamis.
Between 1938 and 1965, nearly the entire 3,300-kilometer length of the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone ruptured in a sequence of powerful, tsunami-generating earthquakes.…
Disaster risk information is spatial in nature and geoinformatics related sciences, such as remote sensing, GIS and photogrammetry, play a significant role in both providing data and managing disasters and hazards in nature. Rapid population growth and urbanization expansion, combined with extreme climatic events, are causing a rapid increase in vulnera…
Early warning systems are a major component in disaster risk reduction. Despite forecasting system advances, hydro-meteorological and geo-hazards continue to claim thousands of lives, while wreaking irreparable damage upon homes, businesses and critical infrastructure.
Research advancements have rapidly improved data observation, modelling and the anal…
Early signals of a coming tsunami hide in Earth’s magnetic field, according to new research.
In 2009, two earthquakes struck off the shore of American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga, triggering a 72-foot (22-meter) tsunami. Sixteen minutes later, an official warning was issued, but by then, it was too late. In some places the wave had arrived just one minute e…
In this paper, the authors characterize experimentally the waves generated by the gravity-driven collapse of a dry granular column into water. Tsunami waves induced by landslides are a threat to human activities and safety along coastal areas. The generation of tsunami waves by landslides may be triggered by volcanic or seismic events not…
Researchers have developed a way to quickly detect and assess glacial valley landslides in coastal Alaska, which can in some cases trigger dangerous local tsunamis.The strategy can detect and locate a landslide within a minute of occurring, within a couple of kilometers of its location if recorded by a dense regional seismic station network, said Alaska…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…
PATISUNAPUR, ODISHA, India, 7 September 2016 - Today not only marked the start of the two-day IOWave16 tsunami drill for 24 countries in the Indian Ocean, but also demonstrated the true power of people to take charge of their own safety and reduce loss of life against the most deadly of all natural hazards, a tsunami.
Nowhere was that more eviden…
NEW DELHI, 5 November 2016 - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, initiated a minute’s silence today in remembrance of all those who have lost their lives in tsunamis as the first World Tsunami Awareness Day was commemorated on the final day of the Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Ri…
NEW YORK, 6 November, 2018 - There were repeated calls for greater attention to the needs of those most vulnerable in disaster situations, at a high-level event yesterday to mark the 3rd edition of World Tsunami Awareness Day.
Representatives of tsunami-exposed countries including Indonesia, Japan, the Maldives and Chile spoke about the need for a more…