This study analyzes the exposure of energy and transport assets in Asia and the Pacific to climate change and earthquake hazards and highlights how multi-hazard assessment can help strengthen the resilience of crucial infrastructure. Geolocating and undertaking a multi-hazard assessment of more than 30,000 infrastructure assets, the study identifies significant …
Whole of Northern India shakes A massive earthquake of 7.5 magnitude centred in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region shook the whole of northern India on Monday, killing at least four persons in Jammu and Kashmir and leaving over 200 people dead in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The shockwaves were felt as far …
State falls in seismic zone IV, V I Its disaster management strategy yet to be implemented A decade after the 7.6 magnitude quake claimed 86,000 lives on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the government seems to have learnt no lesson in handling disasters …
Delhi Metro services halted for 15 minutes As strong tremors jolted the national capital on Monday afternoon, the Delhi government immediately activated its disaster management teams. People frantically rushed out of their houses and offices as the tremors lasted for over a minute. The Delhi Metro services were briefly halted …
A powerful earthquake struck a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing at least 17 people while 36 were killed in neighbouring Pakistan, officials said. The death toll could climb because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area …
Current models to explain regional-scale landslide events are not able to account for the possible effects of the legacy of previous earthquakes, which have triggered landslides in the past and are known to drive damage accumulation in brittle hillslope materials. This paper tests the hypothesis that spatial distributions of earthquake-induced …
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 shook parts of Taiwan on Monday, the island's Central Weather Bureau said, with witnesses reporting that tremors could be felt in buildings in the capital, Taipei. The quake was centered in the ocean off Taiwan's east coast, authorities said. There were no immediate …
BUENOS AIRES – A magnitude-5.9 earthquake struck northwest Argentina on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, leaving at least one person dead, injuring several more and damaging homes, according to local media. “Homes collapsed, families have been left with nothing, schools have been destroyed. We have one fatality, who was …
SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district was rocked by a low-intensity earthquake on Thursday morning, an official said. However, there was no loss of life. Tremors of the magnitude 3.8 earthquake were felt for some seconds in several parts of Mandi and nearby districts at 6.34 a.m., Meteorological Office Director Manmohan …
The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) has constructed a state of the art seismic risks monitoring network comprising 50 observation stations. With this, the civic body has completed all phases of its Seismic Risks Monitoring and Management Project. Musabbah Mubarak Al Murar, acting general manager of ADM, said: "Despite the …
The quake originated about 600km north of Darwin in the Banda Sea (pictured) Jocelyn Montesino Johnson told NT News she was relaxing at her Johnston apartment when the building started to shake. 'I'd say it went on for about five seconds and after that just smaller trembles,' she said. There …
Muscat: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter scale was recorded by an earthquake monitoring station at 6:46pm in Oman on Sunday, an official from the centre said. “The epicentre of the earthquake was far from Salalah in the sea,” the official added. The earthquake was 10.0 km deep, …
An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale was recorded at 10.21pm last night 353.68 kilometres off Nukuni Village in Ono-i-Lau Islands. This was confirmed in a statement from the Mineral Resources Department, Seismology section in Suva this morning. The evaluation report confirm that a moderate size …
Iloilo City – More investments both coming from the public and private sector are needed in order to cut the economic losses that the Philippines would usually incur every time a natural disaster would hit the country. National Competitiveness Council (NCC) Private Sector Co-chairman Guillermo M. Luz said in an …
About 20 percent of medical institutions will be crippled if a huge earthquake occurs beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area, with nearly 50,000 beds becoming unusable, a health ministry study team has found. Also according to the study results learned by Jiji Press on Sunday, 19 of 141 designated disaster relief …
More lives are saved and casualties rescued by local people than outsiders in disasters around the world, a new report says. The 2015 World Disasters Report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) found there is an increasing need to balance the relationship between international …
SANTIAGO – Around 70 earthquakes of magnitudes ranging from 3 to 6.7 struck Chile on Monday in the regions of Coquimbo, Valparaiso and the city of Santiago. This is the highest number of aftershocks recorded since last week’s magnitude-8.4 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Of the nearly hundred tremors recorded Monday, …
A moderate intensity earthquake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, rocked Kashmir valley, including summer capital, Srinagar, early this morning. A MeT department spokesperson said tremors were felt at 0408 hrs. People rushed out of their homes in panic. He said its epicenter was located at 153 kms North-East Leh …
BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted the sea off the coast of Yilan county, Taiwan at 03:37 a.m. Wednesday, the China earthquake networks said. The epicenter, with a depth of 7 km, was initially determined to be at 24.3 degrees north latitude …
As Japan this week dealt with a trifecta of natural phenomena — flood, earthquake and volcano — a recent survey has found that Tokyo’s high exposure to man-made and natural threats makes it the world’s second-riskiest city to live in after Taipei. In a recent report, the Lloyd’s international insurance …
MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has hit in the Gulf of California. It says the earthquake struck Sunday at 1:14 p.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). The epicenter is 37 miles (59 kilometers) south-southwest …
