Joseph Bean, Author at Pacific Disaster Center

Defense technology redirected for disaster risk reduction

Jun 2, 2016 | Early Warning

As the Cold War was ending, in the early 1990s, many visionaries were imagining how to repurpose...

Jun 1, 2016 | Early Warning

Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), a program managed by the University of Hawai‘i, recently announced...

Apr 29, 2016 | Partnerships

Years before Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) opened its doors in 1996, a definite cause and a clear...

The violent shaking caused by the 7.8M earthquake on April 25, 2015, and the major aftershocks...

In the wake of what has been reported as the strongest earthquake to strike Ecuador in decades,...

Barely 24 hours after being struck by a 6.2M earthquake Kumamoto Prefecture has once again been...

Pacific Disaster Center is providing support to ongoing response operations following the 6.2M...

Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) has been working closely with Indonesia’s national disaster...

Throughout the many weeks after Tropical Cyclone Winston made landfall in the Fiji islands as a...

Given the devastating impacts that can occur from natural hazards, it is critical that families...