José Madeira and Rachid Omira in the team of experts of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) sent to Cape Verde

José Madeira, IDL's researcher and Rachid Omira, IPMA and IDL's researcher, will be part of a team of the UNDAC, in the field (Brava island). An alert for the eminent risk of a volcanic eruption in the Brava island in Cape Verde has been recently released. The team of experts was placed together after a request from Cape's Verde government to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN/OCHA), to support the potential seismic crisis.

Link to the news (PT) here.José Madeira's comments on the volcanism of the Brava island in Cape Verde's in Expresso das Ilhas (PT).Chronicles of the Mission: Part I, Part II, Part III

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