The Philippines has long lived with the reality of natural disasters, but the past weeks have pushed the nation into an unprecedented humanitarian emergency. A powerful Cebu earthquake, followed in ...

But the disaster did not end with water. The waves crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, causing reactor meltdowns, ...

A preliminary 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck Thursday, centered in Vallejo according to the United States Geological Survey.

Many developed nations are facing the simultaneous aging of infrastructure built during periods of rapid economic growth. Japan has reached a critical turning point where numerous buildings and ...

Conventional borehole backfilling suffers from various technical limitations, making infrastructure demolition and renewal difficult. In an innovative development, researchers from Shibaura Institute ...

Are we worrying more about natural disasters? It seems we are – A new nationwide survey has found that most New Zealanders ...

In less than 24 hours, California experienced nearly a dozen weather and natural events - heavy rain, flooding, lightning, ...

Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) is expanding its safety and disaster preparedness efforts beyond its train lines and ...

Assemblymember Greg Wallis (AD47) hosted a Personal Emergency Preparedness seminar in Thousand Palms on Wednesday to help ...

The Department of Finance (DOF) is enhancing the country’s disaster response by financing calamity funds to ensure the rapid ...

The IMF paper “The Macroeconomic Impact of Earthquakes on Growth: A Tale from Two Datasets” finds that earthquakes significantly reduce GDP growth—especially in poorer countries, when measured with ...

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