University of the Philippines holds press conference on U.P. Padayon Disaster Response Team deployment to Iligan City

diliman-diary.blogspot.com – U.P. President Alfredo E. Pascual during the press conference held at Quezon Hall, U.P. DilimanBy Chanda Shahani A multi-disciplinary team of experts from various units of the University of the Philippines…

Share Sago Mine Disaster

wvencyclopedia.org – An explosion at the Sago mine in Upshur County, West Virginia, killed 12 men on January 2, 2006. The initial methane blast at 6:30 a.m. killed one worker. Twelve men sought refuge from the carbon m…

Where Should You Live To Avoid Natural Disasters?

radicalsurvivalism.com – January 02, 2012   TheCovertPrepper  Not Louisiana or Texas! After last week’s horrifying news of tornadoes that swept across the South, killing over 350 people, you had to wonder: Is anywhere in A…

Top 10 Global Weather Events of 2011

thinkprogress.org – by Jeff Masters, cross-posted from WunderBlog A remarkable blitz of extreme weather events during 2011 caused a total of 32 weather disasters costing at least $1 billion worldwide. Five nations exp…

The Supervolcano That Can Devastate Europe Is Showing Signs of Awakening

gizmodo.com – Every ten to 12 thousand years, there’s a volcano in the heart of Europe that goes boom. And not any boom, but a let’s-kill-everyone-with-billions-of-tonnes-of-magma boom that would cover everything…

 

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