Warning of the tropical cyclone Haima / Lawin for the Philippines and China.
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Updated and extended report as PDF
German summary available on ESKP
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With the KIT Doctoral Award KIT acknowledges outstanding doctoral researchers.
The CATDAT database contains socioeconomic loss and metrics from natural disasters globally: Floods have caused the highest damage, earthquakes and storms show an increasing role in recent times – Studies help catastrophe management.
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Further information concerning the block course and to sign up over ILIAS here.
Within the time of 19th to 21st November 2015 several severe extreme rain events took place in Central Europe. The waterlevel of several rivers increased significantly and secondary storm damages were observed.
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An earthquake with an intermediate strength of Mw=6,7 took place on November 17th 2015 in Greece, Lefkada at 07:10 UTC.
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CEDIM situation report on earthquake and tsunami
Report
Focus on shelter decisions
IRDR ICoE Critical Infrastructures and Strategic Planning
More: http://www.irdrinternational.org/2015/06/12/irdr-welcomes-new-icoe-germany/
IRDR Centers of Excellence: http://www.irdrinternational.org/about/structure/icoes/
A severe earthquake occurred in Nepal, Kathmandu on April 25th 2015, 06:11 UTC, with a Magnitude of 7,76. More than 8000 fatalities are expected.
Final release of the EMI report with contributions of the CEDIM team. The report was published and presented on 14-18 March 2015 at the third WCDRR.
Exploring European Extremes: An Afternoon with Willis
CEDIM contribution with the "European Hail Model"
13th May 2015, Willis Auditorium, London
In Munich Re’s recent publication, TOPICs GEO Natural Disasters 2014, CEDIM-scientist Stefan Hinz explains the role of crowdsourcing in CEDIM’s Near-real-time Forensic Disaster Analysis and talks about “looking for a needle in a haystack”.
The collaborative CEDIM project OSMREX between GFZ in Potsdam and ICES (International Centre for Earth Simulation) in Geneva ranked within the 20 top applicants for the 2015 UNISDR Risk Award.
Presentation of the results of the joint project "Investigations on the Overcoming of the 2013 Flood", Federal Ministry of Research and Education at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science on February 19th, 2015
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna | Austria | 12 – 17 April 2015
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During the first 18 days of November strong low pressure system repeatedly were responsible for enormous rain amounts in southern France, southern Switzerland, Italy, and around the western and central Mediterrenean Sea.
The rain caused landslides, flooding, transport interruption and more than 10 deaths.
UNDERSTANDING RISK
Software Packages Available to Quantify Risk from Natural Hazards link
CEDIM report No 1, July 18, 12:00 GMT: update July 30 2014 now online
Current research results and consolidated background knowledge, amongst other things also on natural hazards, provided by eight Helmholtz centres. Also CEDIM's results are being presented here.
ESKP website
REKLIM International conference, one day for the general public
October 6-9, 2014, Berlin
Impact Summary No. 2; Status: 03.04.2014, 11:00 pm
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European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
Vienna | Austria | 27 April – 02 May 2014
Forensic Disaster Analyses – Learning from Disasters
Report 1, Status: 06.12.2013 07:00pm
CEDIM Report No. 2, Status: 13.11.2013, 12:00 GMT
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First meeting for scientific exchange between CEDIM and alpS, November 18th 2013 at alpS-Centre, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Tuesday, November 19th at 07.30pm at KIT-Campus South, with talks about the development of typhoons and loss assessment.
press information 144/2013 (german)
Call for papers – "NH9.2 - Forensic Disaster Analyses – Learning from Disasters" at the EGU General Assembly 2014 from 27 April – 02 May 2014. Online abstract submission is possible via the following link until the 16 January 2014
EGU homepage
The reports about the June Flood 2013 are now available in english.
Report 1
Report 2
Focus on Precondition, Meteorology, Hydrology; Status: 20. June 2013, 10:00 o'clock (Report)
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CEDIM staff member Prof. Bruno Merz (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre For Geoscience, Sec. 5.4) in an interview with the German news channel N24 (Berlin, 5. June 2013)
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Focus: Flood Impacts and Resilience, Status: 11. June 2013 16 o'clock
(Report 2)
Update – First Report
Focus Germany, Status: 08. June 2013, 18:00 o'clock (report)
Intensive rainfalls causes floods and landslides in southeast Germany, as well as in parts of Switzerland, Austria and Czech Republic.
Wettergefahren-Frühwarnung (german)
First report – focus on Germany, status 03. June 2013, 16 o'clock
pdf (german)
Badly affected was Oklahoma, where an EF5-Tornado struck Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City.
Wettergefahren-Frühwarnung (german)
There is a risk of floods and landslides, particularly in the northern subalpine region (Lake Constance to Salzburg and Upper Austria).
Wettergefahren-Frühwarnung (german)
CEDIM consequently recommends to internationalize the alert levels and introduce standard definitions applicable globally.
CEDIM member and section leader of the GFZ Prof. Dr. Frederik Tilmann (Section 2.4 - Seismology) gave an interview about the earthquake in the Iran/Pakistan border area.
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Reactions on Twitter about the Iran/Pakistan (Mw 7.8) earthquake.
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