The facility, run by UB's Center for GeoHazards Studies, is equipped with microphones, thermal cameras, pressure sensors and other gear that the scientists will use to record what happens when they ...

Extreme geohazards: Reducing the disaster risk, increasing resilience Date: April 14, 2015 Source: European Science Foundation Summary: Extreme hazards -- rare, high-impact events -- pose a ...

It’s a densely populated country that is prone to geohazards like earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and floods. Because of that density, one disaster can hurt a lot of people, as happened in August of ...

Over 7,000 villages (barangay) nationwide are susceptible to rain-induced landslides and flooding amid the strong rains from ...

Immediately after the workshop, the Director of Vanuatu’s Meteorological and Geohazards Department, Mr Levu Boaz Antfalu, lost no time in presenting its key outcomes to the Hon. Mr Ralph Regenvanu, ...

Bhutan’s Department of Roads (DoR) which maintains some 3,000 kilometers of national highways across the country, recently held a training session on geohazards. Participants learned about the uses of ...

Some 1,403 barangay in Metro Manila and 6,630 others in the country are susceptible to rain-induced landslides and flooding ...

Nepal faces quake-induced geohazards and the release of residual stress from the 2015 temblor, says study. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through news & analysis ...

THE Department of Science and Technology (DoST) kicked off in Region 1 (Ilocos Region) a series of fora on geohazards across the regions which delves on environmental hazards and provides a platform ...

Rapley is employed as a member of one of five teams employed at the National Geohazards Monitoring Centre in Avalon. He is also Elske Centre programme manager Lynne Ellingham-Boyd's son.