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Small Philippines Town Creates Innovative Disaster Warning System

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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Community-Based Landslide Early Warning System

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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Tsunami Early Warning Systems Explained: From Seaquake Detection to Community Alert — Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Disaster and GITEWS

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

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Risk governance for a resilient tsunami early warning system in Indonesia

http://preventionweb.net/globalplatfo…for more information and to download the presentation. This presentation examines tsunami risk resilience through an analysis of systems of governance, their architecture, and actor-agent perspectives, concentrating on the development of a Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS) in Indonesia. A novel conceptual framework for EWS Governance is developed and employed to structure inquiry, and analyse

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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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