DISASTER MANAGEMENT

News About Disaster Management

4,581 articles

Seismometer readings could offer debris flow early warning
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
Seismologists at Caltech noticed that the rumble and roar of the mudslide was detected by a seismometer about 1.5 kilometers away from the worst of the damage. ...
Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk
May 30, 2018 (ESA)
While the Rohingya have faced decades of repression, this recent mass exodus is blamed on large-scale atrocities committed by the Myanmar military. Not only has...
Air Forces's 'Guardian Angels' to receive new facilities
May 29, 2018 (UPI)
The contact, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is valued at more than $22.5 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract that enables Ashford Lee...
China floods to hit US economy: Climate effects through trade chains
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
It is the first to assess this effect for flooding on a global scale, using a newly developed dynamic economic model. It finds that economic flood damages in Ch...
'Our families would be killed': Rohingya brace for monsoon
May 27, 2018 (AFP)
"Our families would be killed. There are children everywhere around here. We constantly fear that rain could trigger a landslide," the 53-year-old told AFP on t...
Arkema's Texas plant unprepared for Harvey floods, inquiry finds
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
An investigation by the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) found that the French multinational company's plant outside of Houston relied on the judgment of its empl...
An electronic rescue dog
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
A new measuring device from researchers at ETH Zurich led by Sotiris Pratsinis, Professor of Process Engineering, however, is always ready for use. The scientis...
Brazil rescues African, Guyanese migrants drifting at sea
May 20, 2018 (AFP)
The migrants came from the small South American country of Guyana and from Nigeria and Senegal on the other side of the Atlantic, the human rights department fo...
Latest shooting revives US arms control debate
May 19, 2018 (AFP)
In order to shoot 10 people dead and wound 10 others, teenager Dimitrios Pagourtzis opened fire Friday as the school day began in the town of Santa Fe with a sh...
Navy captain accused in deadly Tunisia migrant boat sinking
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
The deaths of the Tunisian migrants trying to reach Europe was at the time called a "national catastrophe" by Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. "The captain of the...
National Guard role expanding on border: US Homeland chief
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
Nielsen told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that 1,600 Guard members are currently on the frontier, a number that will next rise to 2,200 as their duties expand. ...
US officials look to house migrant kids on military bases: report
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
The move comes after US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week warned that people who enter the United States unlawfully with children will have them taken aw...
The evolution of conflict resolution
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
Dynamic networks allow individuals to resolve conflicts by managing their network connections rather than changing their strategy. This is a common phenomenon a...
During disasters, active Twitter users likely to spread falsehoods
May 14, 2018 (SPX)
Not good, according to new University at Buffalo research that examined more than 20,000 tweets during Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing. The stud...
Hurricanes cost Caribbean tourism more than $700 mn: report
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
"The hurricane season resulted in an estimated (loss) in 2017 of 826,100 visitors to the Caribbean, compared to pre-hurricane forecasts," said the report by the...
Beijing urges ceasefire after deadly Myanmar border clashes
May 13, 2018 (AFP)
The fighting erupted on Saturday when ethnic minority insurgent groups, who are locked in a long-running battle with the Myanmar state, attacked security posts ...
China resists push at UN for Myanmar probe of Rohingya attacks
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
Back from a visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh, the Security Council is holding negotiations on a statement that would outline steps to address the crisis from the...
Colombia truth commission to 'heal wounds' of war, president says
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
The commission will "help heal the wounds accumulated during more than 50 years of conflict," Santos said during a ceremony at the presidential offices. Even th...
Rescuers search for three Polish miners after deadly quake
May 06, 2018 (AFP)
Some 200 miners involved in the rescue were working in sweltering heat around a kilometre (0.6 miles) beneath the surface to find the three missing miners after...
Honduras regrets loss of US protection status for its nationals
May 05, 2018 (AFP)
The US Department of Homeland Security announced in a statement that it was ending the so-called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Hondurans, but giving 18 m...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.