Author: Ravindra Jayaratne, Reader in Coastal Engineering, University of East London

Venezuela earthquakes highlight the limits of early warning systems

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Earthquakes still arrive without warning. That is the hard truth scientists have been forced to accept, despite a decade of advances in artificial intelligence, satellite monitoring and dense seismic networks. We are getting better at detecting earthquakes once they start. We are now better at estimating the damage they may cause. But we still can’t […]

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Here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history

Ravindra Jayaratne, Reader in Coastal Engineering, University of East LondonLeave a Comment on Here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history

On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the deadliest tsunami in human history. As coastal engineers who specialise in tsunamis and how to prepare for them, we have seen how […]

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