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EXPOSURE Magazine Snapshots: Water Security – Ma...
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...
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
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...
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 ...
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...
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…