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Mon, 2011-05-23 09:48 — mdmcdonald
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Situational Assessment: Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII’s Use of Google Earth™ with Partner Agency Layers During the 2011 Missouri River Floods

Fri, 2012-04-20 22:15 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Date Published:   20 Jan 2012

Publisher:   Lessons Learned Information Sharing

Abstract:  The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region VII Regional Response Coordination Center (RRCC) created a Google Earth™ product to provide situational awareness during the 2011 Missouri River flooding event. The product utilized data from various partners to provide a real-time view of the status of levees. As a result, RRCC and field personnel shared a common operating picture. This Practice Note reviews establishing situational awareness, and the decision to employ Google Earth during the 2011 Missouri River Floods.

https://www.llis.dhs.gov/docdetails/details.do?contentID=54918

Situational Assessment: Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VII’s Use of Google Earth™ with Partner Agency Layers During the 2011 Missouri River Floods (for 6 page .PDF report - see attachment below, or see link above)

Building Resilience in African Nations is Paramount to Development

Mon, 2012-04-09 15:46 — Kathy Gilbeaux

STUTTGART, Germany - Nancy Lindborg, assistant administrator for USAID's Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), addresses staff of U.S. Africa Command, March 30, 2012, as part of the Command Speaker Series. Lindborg talked about USAID's efforts in Africa and discussed how U.S. AFRICOM can better work with the interagency organization to achieve common objectives. (U.S. AFRICOM photo by Danielle Skinner)

submitted by Samuel Bendett

U.S. AFRICOM Public Affairs - by Danielle Skinner

STUTTGART, Germany, Apr 3, 2012 — In developing countries experiencing chronic crises, such as those in the Horn of Africa, disaster risk reduction is often just as important, if not more so, than humanitarian response and recovery, according to a senior official from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Special Report - Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)

Thu, 2012-03-29 22:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

28 March 2012

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) on 28 March. The report assesses the evidence that climate change has led to changes in climate extremes and the extent to which policies to avoid, prepare for, respond to and recover from the risks of disaster can reduce the impact of such events. Please click here for an IPCC press release on the report, and here for the report itself.

http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/news.shtml#.T3UOlfXh98F

Special Report - Overview

http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/

Special Report - Press Release (4 page .PDF file)

Global Warming Presents Historic Disaster Risk, Report Says

Thu, 2012-03-29 22:29 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

      

Mumbai is among the densely populated cities that scientists say is at great risk. (Photo: Getty Images)

by Seth Borenstein - Associated Press - yahoo.com - March 28, 2012

WASHINGTON — Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts, and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday.

The greatest threat from extreme weather is to highly populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the globe — from Mumbai to Miami — is immune. The document by a Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists forecasts stronger tropical cyclones and more frequent heat waves, deluges, and droughts.

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Exercise 24: Using Social Media for Crisis Response

Sun, 2012-03-25 14:05 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

      

worldfinancialreview.com - By George H. Bressler, Murray E. Jennex & Eric G. Frost

“Can populations self-organize a crisis response? This is a field report on the first two efforts in a continuing series of exercises termed Exercise 24 or X24. These exercises attempted to demonstrate that self-organizing groups can form and respond to a crisis using low-cost social media and other emerging web technologies.”

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California Struggling to Prepare Quake Early Warning System

Sat, 2012-03-24 15:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

      

Workers fix subway lines that were damaged after an earthquake was felt in Mexico City on Tuesday, March 20. (Associated Press / March 19, 2012)

By Hector Becerra and Sam Allen, Times Staff Writers - latimes.com - March 22, 2012

The state spends a fraction of what countries like Mexico and Japan spend on their systems. One reason for the lack of interest, experts say, is that California has not experienced a catastrophic quake in more than a century.

Predicting Locations of Emergency & Damage During Disaster Using VGI Data

Wed, 2012-03-21 11:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Alister Wm Macintyre

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ushahidi.com - by Prateek Budhwar

The VGI data obtained from the Ushahidi-Haiti platform during the first 72 hours of Earthquake in Haiti can be used for predicting the locations of ‘Emergency and damaged areas’ using Ushahidi Reports in Port-au-Prince. Two rapid and very successful VGI deployments helped coordinate disaster response after a devastating magnitude 7 earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) project volunteers working outside Haiti created a digital street map of Port-au-Prince and other places in Haiti very rapidly using fine-resolution imagery to trace vector maps of streets and other features.

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Mexico Quake Tweet Volume and Characteristics

Wed, 2012-03-21 10:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Sender: crisismappers
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:55:14 -0700
To: <crisismappers>
ReplyTo: crisismappers
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Mexico quake tweet volume and characteristics
Some relatively random data points...

We've saw about 10,000 English tweets in the first hour and 23,000 in the second. Third hour is down, will be about half the rate of the second hour if sustained.

Recurring themes include words like rattle, suffer, long slow roller, hard, saddened, worried, awful, hate, bad.

I'm seeing a fair bit of "help us report" tweets, which is coming from a tweet that said "earthquake preparedness helps us report none to minor damage and no victims so far," from Mexico City.

English-language tweets from Mexico are making up 8 percent of the total. 55 percent are from the U.S.

Spanish tweets - 488 in the first hour, 1,400 in the second and current rate will product about 1,000 in the third hour.

Most common words in the Spanish tweets are disfrutar and malo.

Spanish tweets are coming almost 50/50 from Mexico and the U.S.

Almost 75 percent of the Spanish tweets were from men, v. a close to 50/50 split for English.

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Researchers Developing Wireless Emergency Network for Disasters

Sat, 2012-03-17 00:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - March 16, 2012

University of Arkansas researchers are developing a solar powered wireless emergency communications network that can be deployed during major disasters to transmit critical warnings and geographic information.

The network, which researchers call an emergency “mesh,” is entirely self-sustainable so even when power and the Internet has been knocked out, residents affected by a disaster can still receive information on their computers, smartphones, and other digital devices.

“Deployment of this system could warn people to get out of harm’s way and could help emergency services personnel reach victims much faster. This last part is critically important because we know that many deaths occur in the minutes and hours after a disaster strikes,” said Nilanjan Banerjee, an assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering at the University of Arkansas.

Tighter Regulation of Industry’s Disaster Preparedness Required

Tue, 2012-03-13 23:35 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - March 13, 2012

Before 11 March 2011, Japan was held up as a paragon for preparedness; they had a national readiness plan, regular disaster drills, and strong civic engagement; the Fukushima disaster exposed a disturbing reality: search and rescue efforts were delayed, shelters ill-equipped, and supply chains broken; worst of all, there was confusion about who was managing the nuclear accident — the power company TEPCO or the Japanese government; information, when forthcoming, was sometimes contradictory

Sunday marked the 1-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, and experts at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University took stock of disaster response, nuclear fears, and lessons learned.

Before 11 March 2011, Japan was held up as a paragon for preparedness. They had a national readiness plan, regular disaster drills, and strong civic engagement. In the face of an unprecedented 9.0 earthquake, massive tsunami, and a nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plant, however, the country experienced a host of challenges — many that continue to be felt.

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