GeoHazards International, in partnership with the Peruvian nonprofit Estrategia, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and Stanford University, designed and implemented a project to reduce earthquake risk in the Andean village of Chocos. The project raised the community's awareness of its earthquake risk, helped villagers map their vulnerabilities, conducted masons trainings and retrofitted the village's adobe brick primary school.
GeoHazards International is working with community leaders in Padang, Indonesia, to help prepare the population for a likely tsunami through the construction of elevated parks, called TEREPs.
GHI Senior Advisor and former Executive Director of the California Seismic Safety Commission, L.Thomas Tobin, discusses why disaster risk reduction efforts secure and protect a country's broader development achievements.
GHI partner Din Muhammad Kakar, a Pakistani geologist at the University of Balochistan in Quetta, reflects on why he is passionate about promoting earthquake preparedness at schools.
