Natural Disasters

Rs 218cr allotted to U’khand for disaster relief

Dehradun: The central government has allotted Rs 218 crore to Uttarakhand towards its State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) which is used to provide immediate relief to those affected by natural cala

Publication Date: 
18/05/2018
Times Of India (Dehradun)
Tags:
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Earthquakes, Floods, Disaster Management, Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters

Mapping individuals' earthquake preparedness in China

Disaster preparedness is critical for reducing potential impact. This paper contributes to current knowledge of disaster preparedness using representative national sample data from China, which faces high earthquake risks in many areas of the country. The adoption of earthquake preparedness activities by the general public, including five indicators of material preparedness and five indicators of awareness preparedness, were surveyed and 3245 respondents from all 31 provinces of Mainland China participated in the survey.

Publication Date: 
14/05/2018
Guochun Wu, Ziqiang Han, Weijin Xu & et al
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
18
1315-1325
Tags:
Earthquakes, China, Disaster Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters

Quake hits Afghanistan-Tajikistan border; tremors felt in North India

Quake on Afghan border jolts north India

Publication Date: 
10/05/2018
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Earthquakes, Afghanistan, India, Natural Disasters
Mining

2 killed, 5 missing after earthquake hits Johannesburg gold mine

Two miners were killed and five others were still missing underground after an earthquake hit the Masakhane gold mine west of Johannesburg, the Sibanye-Stillwater company said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
04/05/2018
News 24 (South Africa)
Tags:
Mining, Mining Accident, Gold, Earthquakes, South Africa, Occupational Safety, Africa
Natural Disasters

Hundreds flee homes as 4.4 magnitude quake strikes Indonesia

A shallow earthquake brought down hundreds of poorly built buildings in Indonesia, forcing more than 2,000 people to flee their homes, rescue officials said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
19/04/2018
Reuters
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Indonesia
Natural Disasters

Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 strikes off Mindanao in Philippines: USGS

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Publication Date: 
05/04/2018
Reuters
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Philippines
Natural Disasters

Disaster management research roadmap for the ASEAN region

This disaster management research roadmap for the ASEAN region was created in the hopes that it will guide the process of achieving the goal of becoming a global leader on disaster risk management (DRM) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) by 2025.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2018
APEC Climate Center
Tags:
Disaster Management, Natural Disasters, Asia, India, Droughts, Floods, Landslides, Typhoons, Earthquakes, Tsunami
Natural Disasters

Long-range dependence in earthquake-moment release and implications for earthquake occurrence probability

Since the beginning of the 1980s, when Mandelbrot observed that earthquakes occur on ‘fractal’ self-similar sets, many studies have investigated the dynamical mechanisms that lead to self-similarities in the earthquake process. Interpreting seismicity as a self-similar process is undoubtedly convenient to bypass the physical complexities related to the actual process. Self-similar processes are indeed invariant under suitable scaling of space and time.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
28/03/2018
Simone Barani, Claudia Mascandola, Eva Riccomagno & et al
Scientific Reports
1-11
Tags:
Earthquakes, Geology, Natural Disasters, Italy
Natural Disasters

6.4 quake off eastern Indonesia, tsunami alert lifted

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert that was swiftly lifted, according to seismic monitoring organisations.

Publication Date: 
28/03/2018
Seychelles News Agency
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Indonesia
Natural Disasters

Earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGS

An earthquake of 7 magnitude struck off Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage.

Publication Date: 
26/03/2018
Reuters
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Papua New Guinea

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