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Nepartak impacts Taiwan, continuing on toward Eastern China
Nepartak impacts Taiwan, continuing on toward Eastern China
Since forming early this week, Tropical Cyclone Nepartak rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm to a Super Typhoon as it tracked across the western Pacific toward...
Public-private partnership in the Philippines reduces disaster risk
Public-private partnership in the Philippines reduces disaster risk
Public-private partnership continues to plays an increasingly important role in reducing the disaster risks and improving response and recovery efforts. Following...
Philippines begins development of Disaster Recovery Facility
Philippines begins development of Disaster Recovery Facility
Located in the western Pacific, along the Ring of Fire, the Philippines are frequently threatened by natural hazards, such as violent tropical cyclones, earthquakes,...
PDC: A global partner in disaster risk reduction
PDC: A global partner in disaster risk reduction
The “Ring of Fire” encircling the Pacific is a 25,000-mile trail of volcanos, major seismic activity, and—on land and undersea—gaping trenches. The same islands and...
Defense technology redirected for disaster risk reduction
Defense technology redirected for disaster risk reduction
As the Cold War was ending, in the early 1990s, many visionaries were imagining how to repurpose advanced technologies developed for defending the nation for public...
Announcing high availability of DisasterAWARE
Announcing high availability of DisasterAWARE
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), a program managed by the University of Hawai‘i, recently announced deployment of its DisasterAWARE High Availability (H/A) architecture....
Pacific Disaster Center’s mission established in federal law
Pacific Disaster Center’s mission established in federal law
Years before Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) opened its doors in 1996, a definite cause and a clear vision of what such a Center was to do had to be established. Back then,...
A difficult road to recovery: One year following the M7.8 Nepal earthquake
A difficult road to recovery: One year following the M7.8 Nepal earthquake
The violent shaking caused by the 7.8M earthquake on April 25, 2015, and the major aftershocks that followed, claimed nearly 9,000 lives, severely damaged critical...
State of emergency declared in six provinces following M7.8 earthquake in Ecuador
State of emergency declared in six provinces following M7.8 earthquake in Ecuador
In the wake of what has been reported as the strongest earthquake to strike Ecuador in decades, response operations are underway as search and rescue teams and response...
M7.0 earthquake strikes Japan following M6.2, M6.0 foreshocks
M7.0 earthquake strikes Japan following M6.2, M6.0 foreshocks
Barely 24 hours after being struck by a 6.2M earthquake Kumamoto Prefecture has once again been shaken by a strong, shallow quake. Early Saturday (local time), a 7.0M...