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Risk Assessment in the Philippines
Risk Assessment in the Philippines
Multi-hazard Urban Risk Assessment for Marikina City, Philippines Urban development in hazard-prone areas is a risky investment. Multi-hazard risk assessment can help inform...
Geospatial community in Vietnam gather together for disaster management
Geospatial community in Vietnam gather together for disaster management
Members of the Vietnamese geospatial community gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam, November 11–12 for the Geospatially Enabling Community Collaboration (GECCo) Workshop. The event...
Vietnam increases VinAWARE trainers and user capacity
Vietnam increases VinAWARE trainers and user capacity
As part of a Phase II Flood Modeling and Early Warning Capacity Development Project (FEW2), emergency managers in Vietnam continue to build capacity through training...
Tropical Cyclone Hagupit impacts islands throughout the Philippines
Tropical Cyclone Hagupit impacts islands throughout the Philippines
After impacting a number of islands across the Philippines, Tropical Cyclone Hagupit has been downgraded to a tropical storm and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and...
Super Typhoon Hagupit approaches the Philippines
Super Typhoon Hagupit approaches the Philippines
Super Typhoon Hagupit (locally known as Ruby) is expected to make landfall in the Philippines on Saturday morning December 6 (local time). There is still uncertainty...
Super Typhoon Hagupit rapidly intensifies in northwestern Pacific
Super Typhoon Hagupit rapidly intensifies in northwestern Pacific
Barreling through the Federated States of Micronesia, Tropical Cyclone Hagupit rapidly strengthened into a Super Typhoon in the northwestern Pacific Ocean on Thursday...
Trainings advance InAWARE knowledge and skill in Indonesia
Trainings advance InAWARE knowledge and skill in Indonesia
Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), training sessions on the recently deployed InAWARE...
PDC renews MOU with NCDR during International Training Workshop 2014
PDC renews MOU with NCDR during International Training Workshop 2014
This year, more than 30 international participants from south, southeast, and east Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, as well as representatives of...
Lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano reaches residential areas
Lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano reaches residential areas
Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has erupted continuously from its Pu’u O’o vent since 1983. Today, lava flowing from the volcano reached residential areas in the...
Dangerous Hurricane Gonzalo reaching Bermuda
Dangerous Hurricane Gonzalo reaching Bermuda
With damaging winds and life-threatening storm surge, Hurricane Gonzalo is expected to make a devastating strike on Bermuda in a few hours, this evening October 17 (local...