The extreme costs and death toll of recent floodings across Texas, New Mexico, and the Northeast have put into question the ...

California’s 2025 Tsunami Preparedness Week is in the books. What did it accomplish? Three things I hope: a test of North Coast counties’ emergency notification system, an opportunity for ...

This week marks the start of Long Beach's Tsunami Preparedness Week — a week spent raising awareness around a natural disaster that many don’t think of… ...

The cost of repair or replacement has been estimated as high as $20 million, and cell phone alerts, while far from a perfect warning system, is the primary technology the city relies on.

A series of three earthquakes jolted the area near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky within a 32-minute window on Sunday. The most powerful of the tremors, originally measured at magnitude 7.4 and later ...

In a previous installment of this series, a colleague eloquently stated that education is our best ally for earthquake and tsunami preparedness in that knowledge of past events and understanding ...

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program aimed to distribute billions of federal dollars to state and ...

The workshop reiterated the critical nature of sea-level data for tsunami early warning, enhancing safety of life and efficiency of maritime operations at critical infrastructure facilities, and ...

March 22-30 is Tsunami Preparedness Week in California. Usually, the main event of this Week on the North Coast is our Tsunami Communication Drill when we test the ability to issue a warning for a ...

Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday announced the creation of a subcabinet group to boost disaster preparedness and improve the state’s ability to recover from a major earthquake and tsunami. The ...

– As delivered – Statement by H.E. Mrs. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the 73 rd Session of the UN General Assembly. 5 November 2018. It’s a true privilege to be here.

“The 2004 tsunami was a turning point in global disaster response, leading to groundbreaking efforts in disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness. Today, communities in disaster-prone ...