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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsGENEVA, September 21, 2015 - The head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, praised Mexico for its commitment to reducing disaster losses and avoiding the creation of new risk, during talks with the government and in a speech to mark the 30th anniversary of the deadly 1985 earthquake on Saturday.
September 19 also saw the activation of a new Seismic Warning…
GENEVA, 18 September 2015 - The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, will take part tomorrow in the 30th anniversary commemoration of the earthquake which struck Mexico City on September 19, 1985.
This will include the activation of a new Seismic Warning System operated through 8,200 loudspeakers, to familiar…
GENEVA, 2 November 2015 - Ten days ago, the news broke that “the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere” was about to slam into the Pacific coastline of Mexico.
Hurricane Patricia intensified from a tropical storm to a system packing sustained winds of 200 mph/320 kph in 24 hours. When it made landfall early Friday evening, October…