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Whether it’s pamphlets aimed at prevention or text alerts, mass communication is often relied on during disasters. This flawed approach can be improved by engaging meaningfully with communities.
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Extreme heat warnings can help change our dangerous relationship with hot weather.
Flooding in Ahrweiler, Germany, July 15 2021.
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Catastrophic floods in north-western Europe have shown how badly early warning systems can fail.
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Other countries have developed and used alert level systems effectively in the management of COVID-19. So why is the UK struggling?
The Indonesian Red Cross pull the body of a tsunami victim from a collapsed house at Talise beach in Palu, central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Local knowledge and awareness of the risks of tsunamis can better prepare people when disaster strikes.
Motorway sign warning of Tsunami, Wellington after a 7.5 earthquake based around Cheviot in the South island shock the New Zealand capital.
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The threat of any tsunami following an earthquake can take time to assess, so it’s important people who live in risk zones are ready for any event.
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The sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami threat seriously.
Earthquakes could act as an early warning system for volcanic eruptions, according to new research. Researchers have found…
German crew members install ocean bottom Seismometers which formed part of a tsunami early warning system in the Indian ocean.
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A magnitude 8 earthquake that struck today off the Solomon Islands is not a risk to Australia, but has destroyed three villages in the region and resulted in a tsunami with early reports of some deaths…