It’s a daunting challenge with the highest possible stakes should an offshore earthquake unleash a wall of incoming seawater.

Sullivan County officials, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) and community members met on Wednesday to discuss the county’s updated five-year ...

One of the core components of this initiative is establishing disaster-resilient infrastructure standards. Future industrial ...

As built-up areas encroach on natural ones, we need new strategies for dealing with the impact of wildfires on buildings and ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

The New Madrid seismic zone lies in the Mississippi Valley and passes through many states, including Missouri.

Efforts are being called for strengthening science and technology innovation and cooperation in geological disaster mitigation and sustainable development during the construction of deep engineering ...

Seismological research is directly related to the incubation, occurrence, and evolution of earthquakes. Scientists seek to ...

This Research Topic is Volume II of a series. The previous volume can be found here: <br/><a href=" "> Prevention, Mitigation ...

Hancock County Emergency Management Coordinator Andy Buffington discussed the county’s hazard mitigation plan with ...

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Unlike gradual climate-driven events, this potential earthquake would “happen within minutes, leaving no time for adaptation or mitigation,” These are the words of Virginia Tech Department of ...