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 …
The Pacific coast of the Tohoku region of Japan experiences repeated tsunamis, with the most recent events having occurred in 1896, 1933, 1960, and 2011. These events have caused large loss of life and damage throughout the coastal region. There is uncertainty about the degree to which seawalls reduce deaths …
New research published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy shows how metropolitan regions can rebuild for greater resilience during the reconstruction process after major disasters, whether earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, or terrorists attacks. After Great Disasters: How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery, by Laurie Johnson and Robert Olshansky, draws on …
New research published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy shows how metropolitan regions can rebuild for greater resilience during the reconstruction process after major disasters, whether earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, or terrorists attacks. After Great Disasters: How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery, by Laurie Johnson and Robert Olshansky, draws on …
Research into the aftermath of the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown found that the oldest were least likely to experience a deterioration of existing chronic conditions. The study also reveals that the health of people living in the countryside was more resilient than that of urban dwellers following …
If researchers are right, a quake would probably turn urban areas in eastern India "into ruins," according to a sesismologist. A huge earthquake that can turn urban areas in eastern India into “ruins” may be building beneath Bangladesh, a new study has warned. The study was published in journal Nature …
The purpose of this document is to formulate guidelines for the preparation of plans to make India disaster resilient and reduce loss of lives. The plan is based on the four priority themes of the "Sendai Framework," namely: understanding disaster risk, improving disaster risk governance, investing in disaster risk reduction …
Officials wound back an initial tsunami threat issued after a large earthquake struck off the coast of the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu on Sunday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said the danger had largely passed and cancelled an earlier warning of a possible tsunami as a result of the …
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, thirteen thousand hectares of farmlands were damaged by massive Tsunami near coastal sites in Miyagi, Japan. Some eighty percent of the damaged farmlands have been recovered in 2014, but subsidence and high salinity groundwater make it difficult to completely remove salinity from the soil. To …
When an earthquake strikes literally every second counts. That was the case 5 years ago when a magnitude 9 quake unleashed a massive tsunami that devastated Japan. A seismological network kicked into action issuing early warnings, but the massive waves still killed nearly 16,000 people and caused an estimated $300 …
This study investigates the issues related to underestimation of the earthquake source parameters in the context of tsunami early warning and tsunami risk assessment. The magnitude of a very large event may be underestimated significantly during the early stage of the disaster, resulting in the issuance of incorrect tsunami warnings. …
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey have solved a 50-year natural science mystery: the undersea source of tsunami that devastated a remote Alaska village following the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake. Underwater landslides at depths of up to 1,150 feet (350 meters)— much deeper than caused tsunami affecting …
This guidance note provides review and recommendations for how the protective services of mangroves and coral reefs can be measured and valued in a manner consistent with national economic accounts and included in other decision-making processes to support planning for development, disaster risk, and coastal zone management. It synthesizes evidence …
Indiscriminate dumping of garbage and release of untreated effluents by industries along the Uppanar are being cited as main reasons Indiscriminate dumping of garbage and release of untreated effluents by industries along the Uppanar River in Thevanampattinam in Cuddalore is posing a threat to the survival of mangrove forests. Mangroves …
AT a time when Chennai is flooding which indicates the importance of mangrove covers, Maharashtra has reported the highest rise in mangrove cover across the country in the past two years, according to data from Forest Survey of India (FSI). Mumbai has seen a five square kilometer rise in its …
BENGALURU: Climate change poses muttiple threats to mankind. The phenonemon triggers a chain of events. Droughts lead to less food and protests, ultimately leading to wars..Rise in temperatures as a result of global warming results in excessive rain and extreme famine. Large-scale drought is being increasingly linked to the incidence …
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story HUMANS tend to ascribe titles to certain things or phenomena that are indicative of their own intellectual and physical limitations to things that dwarf the understanding of this know-it-all, all conquering species. Objects observed in the sky, sometimes flying at supersonic speeds, objects that have dumbfounded …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M. Kumaravel Vs The Collector, Kancheepuram District dated 10/10/2015 regarding environmental degradation caused due to open defecation by the fishermen community at Muttukadu Tsunami relief tenements located in S.F.No.97/3, Muttukadu Village, Kancheepuram District and to construct an …
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 …
The world may not be well prepared for the next significant tsunami, reports Northwestern University tsunami expert Emile A. Okal in a new study that includes a “wisdom index” for 17 tsunamis since 2004. The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman tsunami was the most devastating in recorded history, killing more than 225,000 people, …
Dutch scientists have constructed the world’s biggest man-made wave machine to find out if their country can cope with increasingly devastating floods. Called the Delta Flume, it can create the largest artificial waves in the world – anything from the choppy waters of stormy seas to a single tsunami surge. …
