This year’s United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s annual disaster risk awareness day takes place on 13th October 2016. Organizations from governments to NGOs and businesses are invited to take part.
Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno have published details of their recent discovery of a potentially significant fault that lies along the eastern edge of the Salton Sea.
Wellington City Council has been presented with 30 initiatives aimed at making the New Zealand capital city more resilient to acute shocks and chronic stresses resulting from major natural, social or economic events.
Marsh has issued a report which analyses insurance claims from power generation companies and identifies the root causes of power outages since 2001.
Control Risks has published the results of its latest ‘The State of Enterprise Resilience’ survey, which assesses the degree to which the concept of resilience has gained traction and become embedded within organizations.
During a US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday 27th September, FBI Director James Comey warned that the increasing success of the military campaign against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq carries an ominous downside: a wave of terrorist fighters who will spread across the globe
This page will be updated with Hurricane Matthew USA impact and recovery information as it becomes available.
Hurricane Matthew is expected to be one of the most damaging storms in the past decade as it impacts western Haiti and eastern Cuba today (Tues 4th Oct); it then sets the Bahamas and the US East Coast in its sights.
Tropical Storm Matthew is forecast to become a hurricane later today (Thursday 29th September) and is expected to make landfall on Sunday evening or Monday morning with wind speeds over 100mph. Matthew’s current track threatens landfall on either Haiti, Jamaica or Cuba, followed by various islands in the Bahamas.
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