Find more Earth Focus content at https://www.linktv.org/earthfocusOnce nearly wiped out by a landslide, a town in the Philippines finds a new way to manage natural disasters. More than 70 percent of St. Bernard and the surrounding area are highly vulnerable to flash floods, tsunamis, storms, and landslides, but there was no warning system in place until
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Preventing disease outbreaks has been a vital role carried out by WHO during the 2009 humanitarian crisis in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province. This film looks at how WHO and its Health Cluster partners have used the Disease Early Warning System to monitor for possible outbreaks, respond to suspected or confirmed cases of communicable diseases,
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R3ADY Asia-Pacific, in collaboration with University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), and University of Hawai’i’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), is working to develop an end-to-end framework that better links community-based and national disaster risk reduction efforts, using UGM’s community-based landslide risk assessment and landslide early warning system as the case study.
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This short documentary video uses the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami as a starting point to explain how modern tsunami early warning systems work and why they are critical for saving lives in high-risk coastal regions. Opening with a vivid account of the Boxing Day disaster — when a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the coast of
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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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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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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