Natural events such as earthquakes and extreme weather patterns have fascinated and alarmed scientists for centuries. While ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

A workshop organized by the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs focused on earthquake risk reduction. Experts discussed mitigation ...

Delhi is lacking in disaster management infrastructure and a state disaster response force, as revealed in a DDMA meeting.

Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.7 and 4.1 struck Manipur in quick succession, causing tremors felt across the ...

While these patterns are intriguing, Professor Takeshi Sagiya from Nagoya University’s Disaster Mitigation Research Center warns against assuming a mega-earthquake is imminent: “Most so-called ...

The Japanese government plans to study ways to provide disaster preparedness education drawing on lessons learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.