Chile: Earthquake - Feb 2010 Updates

These case studies accompany the Handbook on Recovery Institutions is to inform the design of effective institutional arrangements for disaster recovery. They describe institutional structures, legal...

For the past 30 years, the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) has deployed and coordinated search-and-rescue teams to save lives when an earthquake hits a country and causes...

Throughout the humanitarian programme cycle of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, a range of guidelines, manuals, toolkits, and mechanisms have been developed to support the...

New Report Looks at Past Disasters to Prepare for the Future Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery: Are we prepared for the next Pompeii? WASHINGTON, May 8, 2018 — The great disasters...

Countries in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region are highly vulnerable to a range of natural hazards, including droughts, earthquakes, forest fires, floods, hurricanes, and volcanic...

Javier E. Báez, Alan Fuchs, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán 1. Executive Summary The region has made impressive strides in the struggle against poverty and income inequality The Latin America and Caribbean...

El fisco deberá desembolsar entre $7.500.000 y $30.000.000 a cada uno de los familiares de fallecidos y lesionados producto del tsunami del pasado 27 de febrero de 2010. Esta mañana se dio a conocer...

By David Singh GENEVA, 27 October: The build up to World Tsunami Awareness Day on November 5 started in earnest today with a high-level gathering of tsunami-affected countries discussing how to...

INTRODUCTION Nearly half of the countries where UNDP works are prone to conflict, disasters, political instability and economic shocks. UNDP assists countries that are addressing sudden and...

Executive Summary Chile is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, mainly due to its location along the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of intense volcanic activity and earthquakes...

Resumen ejecutivo Las Autoridades Nacionales de la Gestión de Desastres (NDMAs) son con frecuencia, aunque no siempre, la principal institución nacional con el mandato de coordinar y gestionar todos...

National disaster management policies and guidelines benefit from building on and incorporating references to international humanitarian standards. But what does it take to link both and how can...

Increasing the resilience of buildings to natural hazards is essential as we strive to design more sustainable cities. Earthquakes pose considerable risks, as they have caused the highest number of...

En la oportunidad, remarcó la importancia de contar con una institucionalidad más potente, subrayando que este nuevo recinto, con altos estándares de seguridad y autonomía de funcionamiento,...

Malcolm Gladwell in his book refers to the ‘Tipping Point’ where little things can make a big difference: "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point" at which "ideas and products...

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Acompañada de los ministros del Interior (S) Mahmud Aleuy, de Vivienda, Paulina Saball, la delegada Presidencial para la Reconstrucción, Paula Forttes, y el director Nacional de ONEMI, Ricardo Toro,...

By Denis McClean DAVOS, 27 August 2014 - The Chilean town of Peňaflor is celebrating this week. A local NGO born out of the 2010 earthquake and tsunami has scooped the prestigious Risk Award at the...

El informe- que corresponde a un diagnóstico sobre el estado de la reconstrucción luego del terremoto y tsunami de 2010- se enmarca en la medida 30 de las 56 para los primeros cien días de gobierno...

This report covers the period 1 January to 31 December 2013 Overview During 2012 there was no separate report on the support provided to the Chilean Red Cross (ChRC) in the 2010 earthquake operation...