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![The Lembang fault crosses the northern parts of Bandung city in Indonesia. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/the-lembang-fault.webp)
Nearly three million people in Indonesia’s second city could be affected by an earthquake
BGS-led research reveals the number of people in the Bandung metropolitan region who could be exposed to a major earthquake.
![A screenshot of the Philippine National Hydrological Model](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PNHM_feature_image.png)
Philippine National Hydrological Model
The first national-scale hydrological model of the Philippines.
![Team UK at the International Geography Olympiad. Source: Jo Bayham & Jen Lomas](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1_Team_UK.jpg)
The Geography Olympiad: Bandung, Indonesia
School student Dion Thompson joined Team UK at this year’s International Geology Olympiad in Indonesia. We hear from Dion’s mentor Anna Hicks, before Dion reports on the Olympiad itself.
![Thousand-Island Lake in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan. The lake provides the public water supply for Taiwan’s capital city Taipei. © John Bloomfield](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/thousand-island-lake-Taiwan-feature.webp)
Groundwater in Taiwan under a changing environment
BGS’s groundwater team is part of a project to develop the first groundwater forecasts for Taiwan.
![lake-loktak-the-manipuri-hills-and-local-fisherman](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/lake-loktak-the-manipuri-hills-and-local-fisherman-960x645.webp)
‘Core blimey!’ A PhD fieldwork trip to India
PhD student Hamish Duncalf-Youngson recently visited Manipur, India, to assess the effects of aquaculture, environmental change and pollution at this internationally important site.
![Sand mining settlement pond Malaysia. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Sand-mining-settlement-pond-Malaysia_945px.jpg)
Living in a world made of sand
Tom Bide and Clive Mitchell outline the BGS Sand and Sustainability project, which is working on geoscience-led solutions for the global issue of sand mining.
![A tropical beach with white sand and two palm trees on the right. People are sunbathing and swimming in the sea. There is a distant, lushly vegetated hill with a rock arch in the distance.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230206_144037.jpg)
Island groundwater management in the Philippines: part one — Boracay
BGS’s Andy Barkwith and Andy McKenzie travelled to the Philippines to undertake collaborative research and outreach with Filipino partners for a national hydrological modelling project. In this first blog, they discuss the first week of work on small islands.
![© Samuel Kouakou – Téhini, Côte d’Ivoire](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2-KOUAKOU-GW-Photo-Competition_web_thumb.jpg)
A tale of two groundwaters
Why the United Nations 2023 Water Conference needs to know more about groundwater.