Castillo said the OCD, in coordination with regional offices and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), provides critical disaster information to local government units to help ...

After major disasters, public debate often treats them as unexpected or unprecedented. This reaction is not necessarily about the absence of warnings. It reflects how societies process shock—and how ...

Against this backdrop, UNESCO’s project Strengthening capacity of Viet Nam for early warnings, disaster risk reduction and ...

The system wasn't working when a tsunami struck Sunday, killing hundreds. Tsunamis have devastated the shorelines of Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries before, but the subsequent deaths and ...

Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems are rapidly evolving platforms that utilise dense sensor networks, real-time data analysis and advanced computational methods to detect the initial seismic ...

In December 2025, the CSIS Global Food and Water Security Program convened the second in a series of roundtable discussions to better understand the emerging benefits—and potential risks—of artificial ...

The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization is calling for an expansion of global monitoring and forecasting networks to alert people in developing nations about extreme weather events, as ...

A screenshot of a Wireless Emergency Alert — similar to an Amber Alert — warning of incoming shaking. (Robert de Groot / U.S. Geological Survey) Monday's magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success ...

The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) aims to speed up the dissemination of earthquake and tsunami warnings from eight minutes to ...