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Every week the PreventionWeb team of editors selects the latest news and research, reports and publications on disaster risk reduction – here is their selection of the latest must-read content.

House in Walporzheim in the Ahr valley with flood marks shown from 1804, 1910 and 2021.

Research briefs

13 October 2022

Seismic sensing reveals flood damage potential

Researchers led by Göttingen University use earthquake sensors to track magnitude and velocity of 2021 summer flood

University of Göttingen

An aerial view of damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas, USA (2017)

Update

13 October 2022

The importance of early warning systems in disaster risk reduction

It is not enough for an early warning system to correctly identify an incoming hazard, it must also ensure that the populations and sectors that are at risk can receive the alert, understand it, and most importantly, act on it.

International Labour Organization

President of Mozambique Filipe Jacinto Nyusi on IDDRR 2022

Feature

14 October 2022

Early warning and early action are needed, so extreme weather events don’t become disasters

“Extreme weather events do not need to become disasters,” says Mozambique's President Nyusi on International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, at the launch of a joint UNDRR-WMO publication on multi-hazard early warning systems.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Anticipatory action in Southern Africa: A new model for managing climate risk

Documents and publications

13 October 2022

Anticipatory action in Southern Africa: A new model for managing climate risk

As the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events rise, more needs to be done to anticipate, mitigate and prevent their impact on the food security of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Research briefs

7 October 2022

AI predicts physics of future fault slip in laboratory earthquakes

Analyzing seismic signals, a natural-language processing approach ‘auto-fills’ the future physical state of a fault in an earthquake machine, with potential applications in Earth

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Documents and publications

13 October 2022

INFORM climate change: Quantifying the impacts of climate and socio-economic trends on the risk of future humanitarian crises and disasters

The analysis shows how the INFORM Risk Index, a composite index that measures the risk of a humanitarian crisis or disaster that could require international assistance, would be affected by the impacts of climate change and socio-economic trends.

Cyclists driving through flooded streets in Pekalongan, Indonesia (2021)

Update

13 October 2022

Put people at heart of climate action as hazards threaten at least 70% of population of nearly a third of world's cities

New CDP data shows 4/5 cities (80%) facing significant climate hazards, from extreme heat to floods, in 2022.

Carbon Disclosure Project

One beer laying in an otherwise empty fridge.

Update

13 October 2022

Droughts could leave us without milk, beer – and so much more

Records show that Europe has never been as dry as in recent decades. Drought has direct consequences on our lives, not least because it threatens basic foodstuffs such as milk.

Conversation Media Group, the

Blog

13 Oct 2022

CREWS

Strengthening multi-hazard early warning systems in Tonga

In response to the unprecedented volcano and tsunami, Kingdom of Tonga develops Tonga Mobile Applications Community MHEW and Response System (MACRES) through the CREWS Accelerated Support Window.