Executive Summary About This Report This Annual Report highlights the progress and results achieved during FY19. It provides an overview of grant making activities in six regions and across GFDRR’s...
Summary Indonesia’s provinces of Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta experienced a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on May 27, 2006. It killed about 5,700 people, injured as many as 60,000,...
A. SITUATION ANALYSIS Appeal History 29 July 2018: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes off Lombok, province of West Nusa Tenggara. 5 August: A second and stronger earthquake, of 7.0 magnitude and...
Editors Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Professor Richard Haigh University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Emeritus Professor Siri Hettige University of...
Introduction Les tremblements de terre sont des catastrophes présentant des caractéristiques spécifiques. Ils détruisent les infrastructures de transports (par ex. les routes, les ponts) et peuvent...
Nine years have passed since the occurrence of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan. Taiwan Red Cross (TRC) has been continuing the recovery and reconstruction works for the areas heavily-hit by the...
Disasters displace more people than conflict and violence As climate change intensifies, extreme weather events, such as floods, storms, bushfires and heatwaves are forcing millions from their homes...
Tsunami detection times in the south-west Pacific are soon to drop from hours to minutes. Read more on Radio New Zealand International.
La dirección del Centro de Operaciones de Emergencias (COE) lanzó esta mañana la aplicación telefónica AlertaCOE y dejó inaugurado su novedoso salón de monitoreo. Asimismo, entregó al país el Plan de...
The 2019-2020 earthquake sequence in Puerto Rico may have – the first of such destructive disasters of the new year and Decade – highlighted the need to raise disaster research and readiness above...