Sue Pyper never spent much time thinking about earthquakes — until she found herself startled awake by a big one.

Multi hazard atlas, policy roadmap to guide future development Mohinder Verma JAMMU, Mar 18: In a major step towards strengthening disaster preparedness and ensuring scientific planning, the ...

Lieutenant governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Wednesday chaired a meeting of Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), which ...

Climate change is making extreme weather events and natural hazards more frequent and intense. Here’s how to prepare before ...

India plans a five-fold expansion of its seismometer network to boost earthquake warning lead time from just a few seconds now to up to 45 seconds. Early detection of P-waves will allow alerts before ...

When we think of disasters, we often imagine dramatic scenes from the evening news: floodwaters rising, tornado sirens blaring, or wildfires racing across a ...

Approximately 10 to 15 earthquakes are recorded annually, according to the state’s emergency management division.

The Mediterranean Sea is widely perceived as having a low tsunami risk. History and recent modeling technology have demonstrated that destructive waves have already hit the French coast and could do ...

The local governments of Caloocan, Malabon, and Valenzuela cities participated in the 1st Quarter National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill (NSED) on ...

Four earthquakes up to magnitude 4.0 shook Louisiana, raising questions about hidden faults, seismic risks, and the region’s rarely studied geology.

About 40 pct of municipalities in the three northeastern Japan prefectures hit hard by the March 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami face difficulties in disaster education for children born after the ...

Dehradun: The Union govt's decision to roll back India's newly introduced seismic zonation map and revised earthquake design code has triggered concer.