Earthquakes: Mitigating disaster for a safer future
Date | 09 Oct 2019 |
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Location | How to get there Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Click to open Google Maps |
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About
Are you disaster ready? How can we plan for a safer future? What is our role in society to mitigate natural catastrophe risks? We cannot repeat the mistakes from the past, mitigating disaster for a safer future is a concern for us all to take action today.
Presentations
15.30 |
Arrival and registration |
16.00 |
Welcome address |
16.10 |
Responding to disasters within the global solidarity of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement |
16.40 |
On the occurrence of earthquakes and their global characteristics |
17.10 |
Lessons from a decade of major earthquakes |
17.40 |
The new Naturalis |
17.45 |
Naturalis Museum Experiences |
19.00 |
Walking dinner |
Speakers
Lucia Bevere
Senior Catastrophe Data Analyst
Swiss Re Institute

Läslo Evers
Head of the R&D Seismology and Acoustics department, KNMI and Professor of Seismo-Acoustics
Delft University of Technology
Peter Schalk
Associate Director Public Programs & Business Development
Naturalis

Beatrice Weber
Head of Disaster Management
Swiss Red Cross

Jeroen Weurding
Head Benelux & Nordics
EMEA