by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 3, 2024 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
Coastal areas in 23 provinces from the north to the south of the archipelago nation, but not the capital Manila, “are expected to experience high tsunami waves” based on tsunami wave models, the state seismology institute said in an advisory MANILA: The Philippines...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 12, 2022 | Disaster & Management, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Nearly 140,000 people have been affected by the storm locally known as Agaton, which made landfall over Eastern Samar province on April 10, the nation’s disaster risk-reduction and management council said. Megi is this year’s first tropical storm to hit the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 22, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
While it’s unclear exactly how global warming is affecting the intensification of such storms, the UN’s climate change agency has found it is “likely that the frequency of rapid intensification events have increased over the past four decades”...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 17, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
Rai, which at one point intensified into a category 5 storm, the highest classification, toppled power and communication lines, complicating disaster response and efforts to collect information from typhoon-hit areas “It is not expected to cause massive damage...
