I have been busy co-organizing the 2nd International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters with my great colleagues, Professor Panos M. Pardal...

The New York Times in a provocative article is raising the question of whether attention to risk assessment for nuclear power plants in Jap...

Researchers at Texas Tech's Center for Geospatial Technologies have developed what is a near-real-time map of the aftershocks occurring ...

The devastation in Japan post the 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami is severe (although it seems, for the most part, that Hawaii and ...

Many of us in the Northeast awoke to the news of the earthquake that struck northeastern Japan, making it the largest earthquake to ever str...

One year ago, our book, Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World , was published and was recently ...

Two days ago a huge earthquake, registering 8.8 on the Richter scale, hit Chile. This was one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded...

The issues of communications, and associated coordination, along with logistics and the bottlenecks, have permeated the post-earthquake huma...

As the humanitarian operations in Haiti post its devastating earthquake are evolving in time, it is essential to recognize the human element...

Although the New York Times has assembled a group of experts to comment on the Haiti disaster response, rescue, and recovery, the group has...

The New York Times is reporting today on the logistical nightmare faced by relief workers in trying to get the critical needs supplies to t...

The calamitous earthquake in Haiti is now resulting in a humanitarian emergency of immense proportions. Those of us who work and conduct res...

The worst earthquake in two centuries hit Haiti , the poorest country in the western hemisphere, yesterday. The pain, suffering, and devasta...