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07/01/2025

In Loving Memory of the Victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

On December 26, 2004, the world was forever changed by one of the most devastating natural disasters in modern history. A powerful earthquake off the coast […]
19/11/2024

UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering (DRR & RE), chaired by Prof. Dina D’Ayala at University College London, continues its series of meetings and lectures/presentations.

This is a good place to take current knowledge and trends in disaster prevention. Chair website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epicentre/unesco-chair/Upcoming seminar 21.11.: “Multi-hazard Risk and Resilience of Educational Infrastructure”: […]
15/11/2024

Consolidating Outputs and Sustaining Outcomes

The last semester of the geoDRR project was exclusively utilized to wrap up the activities of the project with the aim of sustaining the MSc programmme […]
04/11/2024

Spain floods: Before and after images show devastation

Spain has been coming to terms with devastating floods which have left more than 200 people dead and dozens missing this week. Thousands of emergency services […]
04/11/2024

A meeting of GeoDRR Project Managers began on Thursday, October 31 at 8:30 am CET.

t was on a smaller scale, as Southeast Asian Partners reported technical problems with connectivity due to a wave of tropical cyclones and the holidays. The […]
04/11/2024

Tropical Storm Trami brings severe flooding and landslides to the Philippines, at least two dozen dead

There are 2 tropical cyclones passing over Southeast Asia: slightly to the west over Viet Nam, China, Cambodia, Philippines, Laos and Taiwan – TRAMI-24 (from Oct. […]
01/11/2024

Advance your knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Geomatics, and Research!

The University of the Cordilleras invites you to join a 3-day seminar-workshop entitled, Geomatics for Disaster Risk Reduction Masterclass on November 11, 12, and 13, 2024.This […]
30/10/2024

Typhoon Kong-Rey to skirt the Philippines on track for Taiwan

The tropical cyclone season in Southeast Asia is underway … Cyclone KONG-REY-24 (25-30.10.). Wind speeds of up to about 250km/h have come over the Philippines and […]