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MUSCAT OMAN OCT 2010

Opinion: The rapidly populating coastal region from the Gulf to Pakistan faces a huge tsunami risk

07 Apr 2017

In recent years, tsunamis have devastated coastal regions. Writing in The Conversation, Camilla Penney, PhD Candidate in Geophysics at University of...

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Yamada following the disaster. Homepage banner image taken in Ofunato by Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew Bradley in 2011, via Flickr

Rescuing normality: Day-to-day life inside Japan’s disaster shelters

08 Nov 2013

Life inside Japan’s disaster shelters following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster has been revealed by the only researcher to stay...

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Car manufacturing

Crash, crisis, calamity: system shock in a globalised world

01 Oct 2012

Threats that cause supply chains and other networks to break down can cascade through today’s interconnected world of social, economic and financial...

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A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture

Scientists explain scale of Japanese tsunami

24 Aug 2012

Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes under the seabed. Some tsunamis – including the disaster that hit Japan last year – are unexpectedly large...

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Fieldwork in China

When disaster strikes

01 Nov 2010

Using satellite imagery, researchers have developed the first systematic approach for tracking the recovery of regions stricken by natural disaster...

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The 'bath-ring' in Crete

Tsunami risk in the Mediterranean

01 May 2008

Research reveals the cause of an ancient catastrophe that could threaten the Mediterranean again.

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