Morocco is nearing the completion of a major earthquake monitoring enhancement project launched in March 2024 in ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - State officials are teaming up with federal offices to plan for one of the most unpredictable disasters, earthquakes. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management along ...

This resource focuses on how individual and communities prepare for, respond to and recover from life-changing natural disasters. It also explores the causes of earthquakes. This resource has been ...

Like Japan, Peru is located in the circum-Pacific seismic zone and subject to frequent earthquakes and tsunamis. The 2007 earthquake and tsunami caused major damage. Efforts are underway to study and ...

Georgia Southern researchers are working on what they said could be a major breakthrough, predicting earthquakes with 98% accuracy.

We also focus on earthquake disasters since Myanmar was more likely to suffer from earthquakes rather than from other natural disasters. This project aims to develop seismic measures suitable for ...

After 250 years of European settlement and the advanced scientific knowledge of the 21st century, California is still not fully prepared for the earthquakes and wildfires that are an integral part of ...

However, the local effects of disasters are often overlooked. In this paper, we undertake a detailed study of the local effects of the Kobe earthquake. We employ a micro-econometric approach based on ...

In this study, I focus on this earthquake and use plant-level data to re-examine the creative disaster hypothesis which states that natural disasters enhance the growth of firms or plants in the ...