Although this IT risk assessment template deals with risk assessment for disaster recovery requirements, it can be customized for other IT requirements. Head this way ...

“When disaster strikes, confusion and indecision often take place when we React instead of Proact” We need to ask what my agency’s capabilities are during the first 100 hours of a disaster. Regulatory ...

May 17 (Reuters) - The United Nations published a landmark report on Sunday about how natural disasters threaten lives and livelihoods around the world. [LD310640] Following are the main findings of ...

A significant aim of natural disaster research is to improve the science, or the hazard assessment, of risk associated with such disasters. This goal could be achieved by, for example, enhancing the ...

USRA’s Dr. Eleanor Stokes, senior scientist at the Earth from Space Institute, served as a contributing author to the prestigious biennial United Nations Global Assessment Report (GAR), released ...

The “perfect storm” is a phrase often invoked to suggest a combination of rare events that generate something unusually large and adverse. Often used in meteorological contexts, “perfect storms” ...

The 1985 Mexico City Earthquake devastated large parts of the city, with the loss of around 7,500 lives and the destruction of 30,000 residential units. A similar event in 2017 proved far less ...

As climate risks become more of a factor in real estate, it’s critical that the information available to homebuyers is ...

Wayne County tops the list of Michigan counties most vulnerable to natural disaster and is No. 26 among the 3,142 counties in the country, according to a new National Risk Index released by the ...

Panama has instituted critical reforms to improve its technical and institutional capacity to manage the disaster risk resulting from natural and health-related hazards. The reforms allowed for a ...