Over a week after Myanmar’s catastrophic earthquake, casualty numbers are still climbing. Meanwhile, across India, mild ...

Myanmar is one of the most prone areas to earthquakes in the world as it features among the high-risk regions on the Global ...

Which areas are at risk for earthquakes? In 2011, the French government brought in a new 'seismic zoning system'. The updated map shows the parts of the country with the greatest risk of seismic ...

Earthquakes and the damage they cause are apolitical. Collectively, we either prepare for future earthquakes or the ...

In this 2023 update of the national seismic risk map, red areas have the greatest chance of a damaging earthquake occurring within 100 years. [Image: USGS] Second, the Federal Emergency Management ...

and water supply -- must be reinforced against earthquakes, he added. Experts also recommended a risk-sensitive map to guide construction and emergency shutdown protocols to prevent secondary ...

When estimating seismic hazard maps for certain regions ... co-author of the study and Head of GFZ-Section 2.6 Seismic Hazard and Risk Dynamics. The measured data for this study were partly ...

Earthquakes ... on seismic risk. First, seismologists and earthquake engineers at the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, produce the National Seismic Hazard Model. These maps, based on research ...