One of the research projects at the Zugspitze comes as a surprise to most visitors. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are working on GRIPS ,a device designed to improve tsunami early warning systems.The early warning system that Germany helped install in the Indian Ocean last year has a network of sensors at the […]
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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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Discussion Panel on Seimology Early Warning System Seminar.
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Best e-Gov Project: Special Mention
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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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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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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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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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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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