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An Earthquake Occurred in Papua New Guinea on 29 March 2015

Earthquake Papua

2018-03-21

The March 29, 2015 M 7.5 earthquake southeast of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea, occurred as the result of thrust faulting on or near t...
The Earthquakes Occurred inTajikistan on December 7, 2015

Earthquake Tajikistan

2018-03-21

The December 7, 2015 M 7.2 earthquake in Tajikistan occurred as the result of strike-slip faulting within the crust of the Eurasi...
The August 30, 2013 Earthquake in the Alaska Aleutian Islands

Earthquake Alaska

2018-03-21

The August 30, 2013 M 7.0 earthquake southeast of Adak, Alaska, occurred as the result of thrust faulting on or near the subducti...
Earthquake Occurred in Solomon Islands on April 12, 2014

Earthquake Solomon Islands

2018-03-21

The April 12, 2014 M 7.6 Solomon Islands earthquake occurred as the result of nearly pure transform faulting, likely on a NW-SE o...
The thematic knowledge service of “The spatio-temporal distribution of arable land drought in the Belt and Road area” released

drought Belt and Road

2018-03-06

Drought refers to a shortage of precipitation or a circumstance when the water can’t meet the requirements. Due to their high freq...
The knowledge service of “Forest freezing, rain and snow disaster prevention and reduction in southern China” released

temperature snow and ice precipitation

2018-03-06

The reasons of forest damage caused by the ice-snow disaster can be divided into physical damage and physiological damage. Among ...
Central California/San Francisco Bay Earthquake Hazards Project, 1998

Earthquake Hazard

2018-03-06

The San Francisco Bay area is located in a broad zone of active crustal deformation driven by the motions of the North American an...
Flooding may spur algae in Lake Erie

Flood

2018-03-02

The torrential rains that have pounded Ohio in the past few weeks have flooded basements and sent creeks spilling into roadways. T...
Summary of Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service Sub-center Concise Meeting

summary

2018-02-12

A summary meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service was held on January 12-13, 2018.The main contents of the meeting w...
Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service Sub-Platform report the year-end review to IKCEST

metadata standards international workshop

2018-02-12

Prof. Wang Juanle, project technical director of the IKCEST Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service (shortened as "DRR"), repo...

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