Philippines begins development of Disaster Recovery Facility
Located in the western Pacific, along the Ring of Fire, the Philippines are frequently...
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PDC: A global partner in disaster risk reduction
The “Ring of Fire” encircling the Pacific is a 25,000-mile trail of volcanos, major seismic...
Defense technology redirected for disaster risk reduction
As the Cold War was ending, in the early 1990s, many visionaries were imagining how to...
Announcing high availability of DisasterAWARE
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), a program managed by the University of Hawai‘i, recently...
A difficult road to recovery: One year following the M7.8 Nepal earthquake
The violent shaking caused by the 7.8M earthquake on April 25, 2015, and the major aftershocks...
State of emergency declared in six provinces following M7.8 earthquake in Ecuador
In the wake of what has been reported as the strongest earthquake to strike Ecuador in decades,...
M7.0 earthquake strikes Japan following M6.2, M6.0 foreshocks
Barely 24 hours after being struck by a 6.2M earthquake Kumamoto Prefecture has once again been...
Response operations underway in Japan following M6.2 earthquake
Pacific Disaster Center is providing support to ongoing response operations following the 6.2M...
Indonesian disaster professionals learn to train co-workers on InAWARE
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) has been working closely with Indonesia’s national disaster...
A partnership to help response and damage assessments following Tropical Cyclone Winston
Throughout the many weeks after Tropical Cyclone Winston made landfall in the Fiji islands as a...