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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsBy Maria del Carmen Landa
Recently, Mexico City’s civil society illustrated how an empowered community naturally coalesces and mitigates a disaster’s destruction– ultimately finding itself better prepared and quicker to recover.
While building resilience to major shocks entails strengthening infrastructure, creating effective early warning systems and…
Mexico City, 18 April 2017 - Five years after the devastating 1985 quake, which killed more than 10,000 people, Mexico equipped itself with one of the world’s most effective early warning systems for earthquakes.
SASMEX: the Seismic Alert System of Mexico comprises more than 8200 seismic sensors located in the most active earthquake zone that runs betw…
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 6 April 2017 – The lamp in the classroom begins to sway. The desks start to shake. If you’ve never faced an earthquake, Turkey’s AFAD national disaster management authority can give you a taste.
“This is based on real experiences,” said Mr. Zekeriya Ozturk, information officer for AFAD’s simulator truck, at the European Forum for Disa…
Engineers from the University of Luxembourg are working together with scientists from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF in Switzerland to better analyse mechanical properties of snow. The project has the goal to develop a computer model that can help solving typical snow-related engineering problems. The model could, for example, be…
This end of year report highlights disasters and emergency situations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2016 and captures the response and relief efforts undertaken by National, Provincial and District authorities in Pakistan.
It gives an overview of the avalanche in Kareem Abad Chitral in March 2016, flash floods, rain and landslides in April 20…
By Steven Godby
Every year, on September 19, Mexico holds a public drill to mark the anniversary of the devastating earthquake of 1985, which killed 9,500 people and had a traumatic effect on the country. This year, just two hours after the annual drill, Mexico City was rocked by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake which, at the time of writing, has taken over…
The earthquake that struck the coast of southern Mexico, late on September 7th, was a big one, with a magnitude of 8.2. At least 61 people were killed, mostly in the country’s south. In Tabasco, a toddler died under a collapsing wall and a newborn perished in his respirator when the hospital caring for him lost power. A video from Juchitán in the state…
November 5 is United Nations Tsunami Awareness Day.
Tsunami is a Japanese word for a long, destructive ocean wave caused by an undersea earthquake.
The goal of the observance is to learn from disasters of the past and to prepare for the future.
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Countries that have been hit by tsunamis have learned that better building requirements can save liv…