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La Palma Eruption and North Atlantic Tsunami Risk
In 2001, the geophysicist Steven N Ward (from UC Santa Cruz) and the volcanologist Simon Day (University College, London) published a paper[1…
A Perennial Debate: Disaster Planning versus Dis...
In May we saw a historic first: the World Humanitarian Summit. Held in Istanbul, representatives of 177 states attended. One UN chief…
Harnessing Your Personal Seismometer to Measure ...
It’s not difficult to turn yourself into a personal seismometer to calculate the approximate magnitude of an earthquake that you experience. I…
The 1960 Tele-tsunami: Don’t Forget the Far Field
On May 22, 1960 the most powerful earthquake ever recorded struck approximately 100 miles off the coast of southern Chile. The 9.5 Mw event…
A Decade Later – Reconsidering The Indian Ocean ...
This December marks the 10-year anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that killed more than 230,000 people in 14…
Managing Risk 10 Years After the 2004 Indian Oce...
On Sunday, December 26, 2004 at approximately 8 a.m. local time, a massive earthquake occurred along the Indian–Burma plate boundary off the…
