International Recovery Platform

On September 5, 1996, Hurricane Fran made landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina, and generated considerable rainfall, moderately high winds, and storm surge and waves along the coast. This report focuses on the damages along the North Carolina coast

Survivors of the Asian tsunami report that there were several massive waves that in rapid succession hammered the coast the Andaman Ocean provinces of Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi, and Ranong, Trang and Satun on the morning of December 26, 2004. Those walls

One of the areas of importance to effective risk reduction lies in the provision of safe, structurally secure shelter, which is closely related to the sustainability issues of the type of construction, for example. It is important for the reconstruction