The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
This publication gives an overview of “Strengthened Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Asia and the Caucasus through greater fostering of the Hyogo Framework for Action priorities” activities in eight project cities of Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The project is implemented by UNISDR with financial support of the European Commission’s …
Every year, in all mountainous regions, people are victims of avalanches. One way to decrease those losses is believed to be informing about danger levels. The paper presents a study on current practices in the development of smartphones applications 5 that are dedicated to avalanche risk communication. The analysis based …
The main aim of this paper is to test economic benefits of landslide prevention measures vs. post-event emergency actions. To this end, detailed- and large-scale analyses were performed in a training area located in the northeastern Italian pre-Alps that was hit by an exceptional rainfall event occurred in November 2010. …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of Performance Audit of ‘Natural Disaster in Uttarakhand, June, 2013 (Response, Relief and Restoration of Damaged Infrastructure of immediate nature)’. The Report has been laid on the table of the State Legislature Assembly on 03-11-2015.
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 …
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 …
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, …
This year’s World Disasters Report examines the complexities and challenges local actors face in scaling-up and sustaining humanitarian response and disaster risk reduction. It calls on governments and the international aid community to work together to ensure more equal partnerships with local actors and efficient financing flows, including at the …
Nairobi County Government will map out areas prone to flooding before the onset of the El-Nino rains, which are expected from next month. The county's Planning, Environment and Roads and Infrastructure departments are set to release a joint report after mapping out the hotspot area in the coming days. Roads …
The researchers present a detailed chronological reconstruction of the 2011 eruption of Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano (Chile) based on information derived from newspapers, scientific reports and satellite images. Chronology of associated volcanic processes and their local and regional effects (i.e. precursory activity, tephra fallout, lahars, pyroclastic density currents, lava flows) are …
Oman will get an early warning system to predict flash flood three to six hours before it occurs, said Ahmed Al Barwani, water resources expert at the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources. “The model is expected to be ready in the next 12 months in cooperation with the …
Rwanda Meteorology Agency has started using short message service (SMS) alerts in disaster early warning mechanism in several parts of the country. Joseph Sebaziga, the forecasting officer at the meteo agency, confirmed the development which should significantly upgrade the country's ability to minimise effects of disasters in the coming months. …
A national project to build early warning systems for earthquakes and rapid reporting of quake intensity will install equipment at Sichuan provincial earthquake bureau, which is at the center of regional seismic activity. The project to cover the so-called north-south seismic belt, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, northern China and …
An early warning system for earthquakes will be built in Nepal, the Institute of Care-Life in Chengdu, Sichuan province, and the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology announced on Tuesday. The announcement came 100 days after the magnitude-7.8 Nepal earthquake that killed 8,699 people. "With a cost of $3 million, …
This report documents good practices and identifies various issues which may need to be considered for effective and coordinated response for cyclone disaster risk management. It takes into account the efforts made by the States of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in managing Cyclone Hudhud in 2014. The findings and recommendations …
Chinese authorities initiated a grade IV emergency response for torrential rain and floods in Anhui and Fujian provinces on Monday. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the China National Commission for Disaster Reduction sent work teams to assist relief efforts in the two provinces, where storms have brought floods and …
On 25 April, Nepal experienced a catastrophic earthquake that not only took the lives of over 8,000 people, injured over 22,000, and displaced over 100,000, it also affected the livelihoods of over 2.28 million households and pushed an additional 700,000 people below the poverty line. In light of this, ICIMOD, …
Indigenous Technical Knowledge has been the key rescuer of the fishers and common people of Dhemaji district of Assam, India from frequent floods in the region every year. They utilize the existing resources with a sustainable eco-friendly approach towards disaster management and exploration of fisheries resources and co-exist with the …
The Delhi government’s draft disaster management plan warns that should a powerful earthquake strike the national capital, it would wreck more devastation than a nuclear bomb explosion. Six minor earthquakes in 10 days sometimes is the precursor to a large one. The current local seismic behaviour is very similar to …
Vietnamese relevant agencies will be able to warn a tsunami two hours before it hits coastal provinces with the help of a tsunami warning system of 532 stations, local newspaper Saigon Times Daily reported Sunday. The tsunami warning stations are part of a plan approved by the Ministry of Agriculture …
