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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Vox clamantis in deserto : to examine this aspect of the disaster one would have to face up to difficult issues, such as corruption, political decision making, people's expectations of public safety, fatalism versus activism, and more. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Ecemis, S.Z.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Laviano, Province of Avellino, 1984 Monday 23rd November 2020 at 19:34 and 52.8 Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. The magnitude 6.9