Just before 9:00 a.m. local time on January 11, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake rattled Puerto Rico’s southwestern coast. The event comes after weeks of quakes have rumbled through the region—and odds are that the shaking is not over yet. The series includes Puerto Rico’s most destructive quake in a century, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that […]
Source(s): Global Policy Journal Date: 14-12-2019 By Abdur Rehman Cheema – 09 December 2019 Earthquakes continue to be the deadliest type of disasters in developing countries. In particular, more than two-third (67.60%) of the earthquake deaths, since the new millennium (2000-2018), occurred in Asia. A recent study highlights the barriers, their modifiers, and resulting in […]
NDMA, IIIT-H develop Earthquake Disaster Risk Index for cities from high seismic zones An Earthquake Disaster Risk Index (EDRI), prepared by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in association with IIIT-Hyderabad here, showed that about 56% area of India is vulnerable to moderate to major earthquakes where about 82% of the population live. The index […]
