Articles in the Disaster Management Category

Jan 2016 | No Comment

A strong earthquake (7.8 RS) hit Nepal in 11.55 am Saturday, April 25, 2015 with epicenter in an area near Barpak village, Gorkha district, which followed by many powerful aftershocks…

Jul 2015 | No Comment

Landslide is one of the mass movements at a slope that people known very well. According to Cruden and Varnes’ definition (1992), landslide is a mass movement of soil down the slope toward….

Jul 2015 | No Comment

The prediction results for seven larger earthquakes that occurred in Japan in 2015 are validated against published mail magazine data that were disseminated to the customers….

May 2014 | No Comment

The paper aims to validate the use of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals prior to the occurrence of earthquakes as a means of earthquake prediction, by referring to the Great East Japan Earthquake (hereafter called the Great Earthquake). The Great Earthquake occurred….

Dec 2012 | No Comment

The Philippines is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia. It has a total land area of approximately 300,000 sqkm and 36,289 km of coastline. Its neighbors include Taiwan in the North, Indonesia in the South and Vietnam in the West.

Dec 2012 | No Comment

Later in 1888, it was reorganized as Japanese Imperial Land Survey, and then it became the Geographical Survey Institute in former Home Ministry in 1945. Its official English appellation was changed to ‘Geospatial Information Authority of Japan’ in April 2010.