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Displaying 65 of about 65 resultsULAANBAATAR, 4 July 2018 – Vulnerable people are an untapped resource of wisdom, capacity and commitment to tsunami, and overall disaster resilience.
This was the resounding conclusion of a Special Session ‘Leave no one behind: Promoting inclusion in tsunami risk management’ at the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction today.
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By Hideaki Ishibashi
SENDAI--Fumihiko Imamura, one of the nation's leading tsunami experts, realized that no textbooks or training could ever have prepared him for the towering waves generated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that claimed countless lives in the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan.
By Hideaki Ishibashi
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The team members a…
By Hermin Indah Wahyuni, Associate Professor of Communication Science and the Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada; Andi Awaluddin Fitrah, Researcher at Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada; Muhammad Rum, Lecturer at the Department…
By Takeshi Nemoto
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The March 2011 earthquake was caused when a shallow area close to the Japan Trench slipped 50 to 80 meters, raising the seabed and generating a huge tsunami. Before the disaster, shallow areas were considered safe from major slips. To determine the cause of such a massive slip, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Tech…
Can social media videos unravel the cause behind a giant tsunami that killed thousands of people? Citizen science proved it could.
They played a big part in solving the mystery behind the tsunami that hit Indonesia in September 2018. The tsunami struck the city of Palu in Sulawesi island last year after an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude and killed m…