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EXPOSURE Magazine Snapshots: Water Security – Ma...
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This is a taster of an article published by RMS in the second edition of EXPOSURE magazine. Click here and download your full copy now.…
Closing the Resilience Gap: A Tale of Two Countr...
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On April 25, 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck nearly 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. This resulted in…
Friday 13th and the Long-Term Cost of False Alarms
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If the prospect of flooding along the East Coast of England earlier this month was hard to forecast, the newspaper headlines the next day were…
Earthquake Hazard: What Has New Zealand’s Kaikou...
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The northeastern end of the South Island is a tectonically complex region with the plate motion primarily accommodated through a series of…
New Zealand’s Kaikoura Earthquake: What Have We ...
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The Kaikoura Earthquake of November 14 occurred in a relatively low population region of New Zealand, situated between Christchurch and…
India’s Need for Disaster Risk Reduction: Can it...
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This was the first time I’d ever heard a Prime Minister praising the benefits of “risk mapping.” Mid-morning on Thursday November 3 in a vast…
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