Overall Green Earthquake alert in Myanmar on 31 Aug 2020 21:09 UTC

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M 4.9 in Myanmar on 31 Aug 2020 21:09 UTC

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To improve disaster risk reduction, aid and tech experts look to women April 15, 2020 LONDON — Women bear the brunt of the impact of natural disasters, an outcome most starkly illustrated by mortality rates. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami saw male survivors in Indonesia and Sri Lanka outnumber their female counterparts by up to 4 to 1. And when Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar in 2008, some villages had twice as many deaths among women compared with men.

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:34:00 +0200care (en)

LONDON — Women bear the brunt of the impact of natural disasters, an outcome most starkly illustrated by mortality rates. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami saw male survivors in Indonesia and Sri Lanka outnumber their female counterparts by up to 4 to 1. And when Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar in 2008,....

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