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Natural Hazards Partnership

The NHP builds on the interdisciplinary expertise of its partners to deliver better coordinated natural hazards science, research and advice to Governments, Civil Contingency responders and other hazard resilience groups across the UK.

Shallow geophysics

Creating and using leading-edge technologies such as geophysical tomography to visualise the shallow subsurface.

Landslides

Building resilience both in the UK and internationally to landslides and carrying out many aspects of landslide research.

New NERC funding for Centre for Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics

The BGS signs Memoranda of Understanding with top Indian research institute

Reducing disaster risk for the poorest citizens in tomorrow’s cities

Natural hazards and disaster risk reduction in Guatemala

Guatemala is exposed to multiple natural hazards, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions (and all their associated hazards, such as ash, lava flows, pyroclastic density currents and lahars), tsunamis, landslides, floods, droughts, ground collapse, tropical storms and hurricanes, extreme temperatures, and forest fires.

Tsunami sediments study and satellite mapping | Japan fieldwork 2011

BGS scientists visited north-east Japan to study the area devastated by the tsunami caused by the Great Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011.