Mitigating tsunami risk with early warning systems
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Early Warning Systems
Japan’s Earthquake Early Warning System
Ten-minute clip of Japan’s earthquake early warning system. Both Japan and Mexico have earthquake early warning systems that lets people know of an earthquake 5-50 seconds in advance.
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UNDP- CIRDA Programme: Benin’s Early Warning System
Acces to climate information is a vital aspect of adaptation planning, particularly when it comes to creating life saving early warning systems. UNDP is working with countries like Benin in enhacing national capacities to collect and analyse relevant climate and weather data and communicate it to local populations. Benin’s work in delevloping an effective early
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Southern Mexico—Earthquakes, Tectonics, & Earthquake Early Warning
From www.iris.edu/educate. In 1985, a Great magnitude 8.1 subduction-zone earthquake occurred beneath the coast of Michoacan Mexico. Despite the 350-km distance from the earthquake epicenter to Mexico City,most of the 9,500 fatalities occurred there. That earthquake prompted Mexico to develop an earthquake alert system for all of Southern Mexico. This animation describes the tectonic and geologic process
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Develop an early warning system and reduce disaster risk by integrating multiple information
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Indonesia 8.6 earthquake: Indian Ocean tsunami warning system
An 8.6 magnitude earthquake struck 437km off the coast of Indonesia’s Banda Aceh on Wednesday, sparking a tsunami alert across the Indian Ocean region. The quake provided a test for the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) early warning system installed by Indonesia and its neighbors in the wake of the devastating 2004 tsunami.
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Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System
For tsunami early warning system InaTEWS (Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System), on 11 November 2008 was officially opened, Germany has contributed significantly. The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed a Decision Support System (DSS) was developed. The DLR webcast shows how the information for quick and safe
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Trans-Boundary Community Based Flood Early Warning System by PGVS
Indo-Nepal Trans-Boundary Community Based Early Warning System is a cohesive attribute that empowers communities to move forward with communism and socialism favoring life and not borders. People who face the problem of flood every year can now cope up with their life and empower themselves with CBFEWS. These people are generally located at Terai region
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National Violence Outbreak Early Warning System in Kenya
Google Tech Talk (more below)March 2, 2011 Presented by Zab Vilayil. ABSTRACT Effective early warning systems have been recognized as prudent investments, and when coupled with early preparedness for early response; they help in mitigating conflict and increasing stability. Kenya’s post election violence of 2007/2008 cast a dark shadow in the country as response options
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