Following the Herat province (Western Afghanistan) earthquake sequence of October 7 to 15, 2023, the World Bank carried out a remote desk-based assessment of the physical damages using the Global RApid...
On February 6, 2023, two very large earthquakes of magnitude (Mw) 7.8 and 7.5 occurred nine hours apart on different fault lines in the southern region of Türkiye and northern Syria. These are referred...
Extremely severe cyclonic storm Mocha made landfall as a Category 4-equivalent cyclone in the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale on Sunday May 14, 2023, at 07:07 UTC (14:07 local time) around Sittwe city...
Following the magnitude (Mw) 7.8 Türkiye-Syria Earthquake on February 6, 2023 and the Mw 6.3 earthquake on February 20, 2023, the World Bank carried out a remote, desk-based assessment of the physical...
The key objective of this report was to provide a high-level estimation of Ukraine’s physical damages following the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, to inform the World Bank’s (WB) approach paper:...
Volcán de Fuego is considered to be one of Central America's most active volcanoes. It is situated eighteen kilometers south west from Central America's former colonial capital and present main tourist...
Jamaica is highly exposed to natural disasters of varying intensity and severity. Several types of disasters frequently occur including hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods and landslides...
Grenada is highly exposed to natural disasters of varying intensity and severity. Several types of disasters, such as hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods, and landslides, frequently...
Saint Lucia is highly exposed to natural disasters of varying intensity and severity, including hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods and landslides. Between 1980 and 2014, many hurricanes...
Belize is highly exposed to natural disasters of varying intensity and severity, including hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods and landslides. Between 2000 and 2016, nine storms...
Hydrological and meteorological (hydromet) information is useful for more than predicting weatheron any given day. This information can save lives; reduce the impacts of hazards such as floods,storms and...