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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. It explains its own rationale and presents the 89 'risks' one by one. Hence, the risk register largely discusses hazards and threats, not risks sensu stricto.

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

Emergency Planning

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Many of the news media that have reported the disaster have presented it as the result of inescapable terrestrial forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. It is these that collapse. Ecemis, S.Z.

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Creating effective warnings for all

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Natural hazards, public health emergencies, and other crises can strike at any moment, putting lives and livelihoods at risk. Through collaboration and the active involvement of the private sector, we can transform early warning systems into powerful tools that protect lives and foster resilience in the face of adversity.