Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) Updates

At 16:10 on 1 January 2024, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale (GLIDE No. EQ2024-000001-JPN) centred on the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, caused a temblor of an...

At 16:10 on 1 January 2024, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale (GLIDE No. EQ 2024 000001 JPN) centred on the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, caused an intensity 7 (JMA)...

At 16:10 on 1 January 2024, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale (GLIDE No. EQ2024-000001-JPN) centred on the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, caused an intensity 7 (JMA) in...

1. Asian Disaster Reduction Center The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) was established in 1998 as a regional initiative aimed at enhancing disaster resilience, building safer communities, and...

ADRC publishes the Natural Disaster Databook annually to provide statistical and analytical perspectives of disaster data. For its 2022 issue, ADRC used the data from the Emergency Event Database...

Introduction ADRC publishes the Natural Disaster Databook annually to provide statistical and analytical perspectives of natural disaster data. ADRC retrieves data from the Emergency Event Database...

1. Asian Disaster Reduction Center Established in 1998, the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) is a regional initiative aimed at enhancing disaster resilience, building safer communities, and...

The volcanic ash and the tsunami accompanying the eruption of the submarine volcano, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai, located north of the main island of Tonga (GLIDE No. VO-2022-000005-TON) caused great...

Introduction Annually, ADRC publishes the Natural Disaster Data Book to provide statistical perspectives in figures and tables of natural disaster data. ADRC obtains data from EM-DAT and analyses it...

Overview The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) Natural Disasters Data Book 2019 provides statistical perspectives in figures and tables for 2019 as well as for the period 1990-2019 based on data...

Foreword The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), which was established in Kobe in July 1998, will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. Since its founding, ADRC has been focused on promoting...

Contents 1. Outline of Asian Disaster Reduction Center Background of Establishment (1) International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) (2) World Conference on International Decade for...

Background, in the light of Disaster Nepal is in a threat of multiple natural hazards. Flood, landslide and fire are frequent occurrence disasters and the country is prone to earthquake, being at a...

Foreword Fiscal year 2014 saw an increasing number of huge typhoons and cyclones, torrential rains and storms, which might have been influenced by climate changes at global scale. These disasters,...

Foreword It is said that natural disasters know no borders. Indeed, countries all across Asia experienced a variety of disasters, including earthquakes, typhoons, floods, forest fires, drought, and...

Overview The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) Natural Disasters Data Book 2012 provides the statistical perspectives in figures and tables for 2012 as well as for the period 1983-2012 based on...

Overview The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) Natural Disasters Data Book 2011 provides the statistical perspectives in figures and tables for 2011 as well as for the period 1975-2011 based on...

●Promoting Cooperation with Affiliated Institutions Report from the Expert Group Meeting: Toward Creative Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake The March 11 earthquake and tsunami that...

Tsunami The Mw. 9.0 earthquake at 14:46 and the series of large-scale earthquakes that followed had resulted in multiple tsunami waves of unprecedented scales at the coastal areas of Hokkaido,...

Update It has been nearly four weeks since the "Great Eastern Japan Earthquake" (official name of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami) devastated numerous small towns and communities along the...