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Briefing

Humanitarian Response to the Kahramanmaraş Earthquake in Syria ar

On 6 February 2023, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale brought destruction to southern Türkiye and northern Syria. The official death toll exceeded 50,000, with more than 7,000 fatalities occurring in Syria.1 An estimated 12…
SSHAP
2023
UNICEF/UNI87970/LeMoyne
Background report

Rapid Monitoring in Vaccination Campaigns during Emergencies: The post-Earthquake Campaign in Haiti

The earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 caused 1.5 million people to be displaced to temporary camps. The Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population and global immunization partners developed a plan to deliver vaccines to those residing in…
WHO
2013
UNICEF/UNI184737/Page
Briefing

Focus on Nepal Earthquake and Earthquakes in Southern Asia

Nepal witnessed a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 25th April and a 7.3 quake on 12th May, the worst natural disasters since 1900 in terms of number of dead, population affected and economic losses (A). The earthquakes killed more than 9,000 people…
CRED
2015
UNICEF/UN034854/Abassi, UN-MINUSTAH
Background report

Poverty & death: disaster mortality 1996-2015

A report on worldwide deaths from geophysical disasters.
CRED-UNISDR
2016
UNICEF/UN035982/LeMoyne
Background report

Prioritizing Health: A Human Rights Analysis of Disaster, Vulnerability, and Urbanization in New Orleans and Port-au-Prince

Climate change prompts increased urbanization and vulnerability to natural hazards. Urbanization processes are relevant to a right to health analysis of natural hazards because they can exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities that create vulnerability. The 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince and the 2005…
Health and Human Rights Journal
2014
UNICEF/UNI189101/Nijimbere
Evidence review

Lessons Learned: Social Media Monitoring during Humanitarian Crises 

Monitoring of social media conversations in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake was found mainly to be useful in two ways: 1. Analysing public reactions to media reports: The data enabled the team and clients to see which issues were…
ACAPS
2015

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