On Feb. 6, 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed hours later by a second violent quake, devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria. More than 55,000 people were killed, and thousands of homes ...

Santa Monica faces $1.5 billion losses from natural disasters. Sea level rise, wildfires, and earthquakes pose greatest risks ...

Keywords: Earthquake mitigation. Earthquake mitigation policies. Earthquake losses. Abstract: This stage one report is the result of a project on overcoming obstacles to implementing earthquake hazard ...

During the 20th century, earthquakes in Europe accounted for more than 200,000 deaths and over 250 billion Euros in losses. Comprehensive earthquake hazard and risk assessments are crucial to reducing ...

You’ve seen the images of sloshing pools, and scattered and smashed bottles in the stores of Ridgecrest, epicenter of the largest earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years. Many of us ...

(TNS) - Residents have an opportunity to learn more about hazard mitigation within the territory, with the release of a new USVI Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Plan. The document, presented to the ...

Weston Observatory conducts multidisciplinary research into seismic hazards, seismic risk, seismotectonics, seismic wave propagation, regional geology, geotechnical engineering, and paleobiology.

BERKELEY — Earthquakes, flooding, wildfires and extreme heat are among the list of about a dozen hazards Berkeley is preparing for in its updated Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. The five-year document, ...

And county officials are finalizing a hazard mitigation plan to grasp the logistics and potential damage possible if any combination of disasters were to hit one of South Carolina's largest counties.