In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
disasters strike when they are least expected, causing untold devastation and disruption of life, besides laying waste huge swathes of land. Now, meteorologists have developed sophisticated tools to help minimise casualties and damage. Curtin University
Tremors of Japan's earthquake are being felt in Uttar Pradesh as government officials are sceptic about funding by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in the ongoing projects as this Land of Rising Sun is itself facing a financial crunch post-tsunami. The JICA is financing projects including Gangajal under which …
The controversial April 15: The controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project will be implemented despite all the hurdles, said Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday and even suggested that an independent security system should be in place for all the six power plants in Jaitapur.
INDIA is constructing six nuclear power plants—two each at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, Kakrapar in Gujarat, and Rawatbhata in Rajasthan. Together, they will generate 4,800 MWe of power, states the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s website. This is a big leap towards enhancing the country’s nuclear stature. But is the country …
Japan on Monday expanded the evacuation zone around its crippled nuclear plant because of high levels of accumulated radiation, as a strong aftershock rattled the area one month after a quake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. A magnitude 7.1 tremor shook buildings in Tokyo and a …
Japan Shifts N-Plant Staff, Lifts Alert After 90 Mins Tokyo: Japan was rattled by a magnitude-7.4 aftershock and tsunami warning on Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. Announcers on Japan
A magnitude-7.1 aftershock, one of the strongest since the devastating earthquake of March 11, struck Japan on Thursday 215 miles (345 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, resulting in warnings of a possible tsunami. The quake was measured at a depth of about 25 miles and struck about 11.32 p.m. local time …
Recent nuclear reactor disaster that occurred at Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan has provoked planners, leaders, environmentalists and intellectuals of various countries to rethink about the nuclear energy option. The point whether one should go for nuclear power has been debated for a long time. In this context the …
The threat of a nuclear accident adds to Japan's misery after tsunami waves set off by a giant earthquake take their toll. A TRULY three-dimensional natural disaster, partly traceable to man's imperfect mastery over the atomic world, struck high-tech Japan on March 11, tragically exposing the limitations of human civilisation …
THE massive earthquake of March 11 that wreaked widespread devastation over a 500-kilometre-long stretch of the eastern, or Pacific, coastline of Japan is the largest-ever recorded in Japanese history. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred at 05-46 UTC/GMT (2-46 p.m. local time), with its epicentre (38.3?N 142.4?E) at 130 km off …
It came as no surprise when the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) admitted last week that it will scrap its stricken Fukushima Daiichi reactors. After explosions, copious radioisotope leaks and a liberal dousing with sea water, the reactors are a write-off. But what will workers encounter when they finally start …
The energy released by capsizing icebergs can be equal to that of small earthquakes — enough to create ocean waves of considerable magnitude. Should such 'glacial tsunamis' be added to the list of future global-warming hazards?
After carrying out a complete review of its coastal nuclear sites in the wake of the tsunami-afflicted nuclear crisis in Japan, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has decided to set up tsunami alarms at all these sites that would link them up with relevant agencies including the Navy. It …
Tokyo/Fukushima: As Japan grappled with its worst atomic crisis in decades, premier Naoto Kan on Thursday said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant must be scrapped as radiation seeping into sea tested 4,385 times the legal limit, but authorities ruled out expanding the evacuation zone. French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the …
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Thursday for a reform of global nuclear standards by the end of the year during a first visit by a foreign leader to Japan since the earthquake and tsunami that triggered its atomic disaster. G-20 chairman Sarkozy said France wants to host a meeting …
Under the Tsunami Rehabilitation Programme supported by the KSCSTE, KFRI planted Casuarina and other tree species in a strip of 32 km length along the coastal areas of Thrissur District to establish a bio-shield.
The recent devastation that has impacted the people of Japan has been described as of epic proportions of many kinds: loss of lives, loss of private properties and public assets; economic set back; and nuclear emergency. While there was not much the civil society could do to avoid the earth …
Japan ordered an immediate safety upgrade at its 55 nuclear power plants on Wednesday in its first acknowledgement that standards were inadequate when an earthquake and tsunami wrecked one of the facilities nearly three weeks ago. Adding to the evidence of radiation leakages around the crippled nuclear complex, 240 km …
Japan has the world's densest seismometer network, the biggest tsunami barriers and the most extensive earthquake early-warning system. Its population is drilled more rigorously than any other on what to do in case of earthquakes and tsunamis. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471556a.html
