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The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is marked every year on 13 October. The observance encourages people, communities and governments to understand disaster risk and act to reduce it before a hazard strikes...
Sikkim has flagged 40 high-hazard glacial lakes, 16 of them in the top-risk Category A for possible Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). Such lakes form from glacier meltwater and can burst suddenly due to excess water...
IntroductionIn a historic policy shift driven by accelerating climate change and extreme weather risks, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on 16 August 2026 officially notified Heatwaves and Lightning as recognized natur...
IntroductionA powerful earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale struck near San José del Palmar in the department of Chocó, western Colombia, on 14 August 2026. The devastating seismic event claimed at least 164 liv...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive tectonic event, southwestern Japan was strictly and officially struck by a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Kyushu island on August 8, 2026 (with gl...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive celebration of architectural restoration, the 17th-century Jestha Varna Mahavihar in Lalitpur, Nepal, strictly and officially won the prestigious 2025 UNESCO Asia-Pac...
An Indian Army field hospital set up under "Operation Amistad" has become fully operational in Venezuela, which was struck by a major earthquake of magnitude 7.2–7.5. The quake caused widespread destruction and casualtie...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive geological disaster, Venezuela was strictly and officially hit by twin powerful earthquakes, classified as a rare Seismic Doublet event, causing major destruction.Bac...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive stark geological warning, a fierce absolute massive new study strictly officially revealed that the San Andreas Fault in California has completely absolutely accumula...
UNESCO and the Government of Sikkim are documenting Ru-Soam engineering, the traditional bridge-building knowledge of the Lepcha community. Ru-Soam refers to footbridges made of bamboo and cane in the Khangchendzonga Bio...
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has withdrawn the 2025 version of the seismic code (IS 1893) following concerns raised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The earlier standard, IS 1893 (Part 1): 20...
Stanford University researchers created the first worldwide map of rare continental mantle earthquakes, which originate in the mantle usually more than 80 km below the crust. Studying over 46,000 earthquakes recorded sin...
