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Displaying 30 of about 31 results… with preliminary damage assessment of $65 million. The wave damaged directly structural and non structural elements …
… C. and Chau Doan, 'Spared for Months, Vietnam Faces a Wave of New Infections', New York Times, 2 June 2021, …
… et al., 2019; FAO & IBRD/World Bank, 2018). Moreover, heat waves are expected to occur ten times more frequently … land degradation and desertification. Meanwhile, heat waves could increase both the psychological stress and … failures over the next 30 years Future drought episodes, heat waves, and other extreme events will further challenge …
… connected to households are also damaged, as the tidal wave washed away houses, distribution poles, and wires. A …
Tropical Storm 03B hit Yemen on October 24, 2008. The storm led to severe rain and flooding over the eastern Governorates of Yemen—Hadramout and Al-Mahara—for about 30 hours, resulting in total rainfall of almost 91 mm (versus 5-6 mm in normal periods). As of October 31, 2008, 73 persons were reported to have lost their lives as a result of the floods,…
… accessible about four weeks later, there was a second wave of people reaching hospitals with injuries. As local …
… communication equipment such as mobile phones or short wave radios. Some traditional methods of communication such … has changed the shape of the river and the flood wave: the volume has remained more or less the same, but the …
The catastrophic 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines inflicted severe damages to agriculture. It blanketed the landscape with a thick layer of unconsolidated silica-rich tephra. The remobilization of this material by rain produced debris flows (or lahars) that flooded and buried the lowland soils. Nearly three decades after this catastrophi…
This document presents the experience and lessons learned from the implementation of the Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project (ETESP) housing program carried out by the Asian Development Bank in Indonesia.
On 7 April 2005, the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved the Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Projec…
… were already at critical levels before this year’s new wave of rains and flooding. About the Damage and Needs … Due to the cut off from supply of contraceptives, a wave of unwanted pregnancies with all the ensuing …
… response and recovery. Originating from a tropical wave, Maria became the tenth- most intense Atlantic hurricane …
In the month of May 2016, parts of Sri Lanka were hit by the heaviest recorded rainfall in more than 18 years, which caused severe floods in 24 districts and also horrific landslides, one of which was the worst recorded in our country. The floods and landslides resulted in the loss of at least 93 lives and affected almost half a million people. The disa…
… toward drought. It is expected to receive more frequent heat waves, periods of drought and less intense rains, as …
… as the forthcoming season (e.g., anticipated snow, rains, heat, dry season); • Secondary shocks, such as fish disease …
… more rainfall, i.e. Angola’s central highlands), health (heat impacts, water stress, and spread of certain diseases …