12500 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://reliefweb.int/report/indonesia/asean-weekly-disaster-update-week-16-18-24-april-2022REGIONAL SUMMARY: For the sixteenth week of 2022, a total of 23 disasters (15 floods, 4 landslides, 1 earthquake, and 3 wind-related) affected the region. Indonesia and the Philippines have reportedly been affected. Prolonged heavy rainfall and overflowing of the rivers have caused flooding and....2022-04-25T12:27+0200reliefWeb-d60b02b7a81c59c9c7ce598266c55fd920220425122700https://ahacentre.org/weekly-disaster-update/weekly-disaster-update-18-25-april-2022/REGIONAL SUMMARY: For the sixteenth week of 2022, a total of 23 disasters (15 floods, 4 landslides, 1 earthquake, and 3 wind-related) affected the region. Indonesia and the Philippines have reportedly been affected. Prolonged heavy rainfall and overflowing of the rivers have caused flooding and....2022-04-25T10:05+0200ahacentre-d2c12b26e88e8f2ba65c3da93297f8e920220425100500https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2022/04/25/why-disaster-preparedness-should-be-part-of-your-plan/Prioritize your safety during natural calamities by knowing what to do – and doing it. The Philippines has long been considered calamity-prone and vulnerable to disasters. In fact, it placed third among all the highest-risk countries worldwide, according to the World Risk Report of 2018.2022-04-25T09:21+0200tribuneonline-c41ad5663def66636c369f2edf1f551c20220425092100https://globalnation.inquirer.net/203766/why-disaster-preparedness-should-be-part-of-your-plan/Still, there seems to be hope in encouraging Filipinos to start prioritizing their safety and investing in disaster preparedness. In the same Harvard study, 4 many of the respondents said if they had enough funds and resources, they would definitely be willing to prepare ahead. This shows that, in spite of it all, Filipinos do want to be ready.2022-04-25T08:07+0200inquirer-961ac7180f9829a1aea53c49a853947f20220425080700