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Tsunamis: GPS could improve early warnings says new study

Tsunami Early Warning improved by GPS measurements

BBC reported on a new German study (Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences) that fo

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Tue, 21/05/2013 - 09:38
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Processed on May 21st 2013

United Nations/Germany UN-SPIDER Bonn Expert Meeting on the use of space-based information for early warning systems

Time and Duration
Venue City: 
Bonn
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Date: 
25/06/2013 - 26/06/2013
Venue: 
UN Campus Bonn (Langer Eugen)
Venue Country: 
Germany
Event Organisers: 

UNOOSA

Co-organisers: 

German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Secure World Foundation

Language of event: 
English
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Please note the NEW DATE of the event:

25-26 JUNE 2013!

 

 

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50.7183
longitude: 
7.12747
Processed on Feb 7th 2013

IFRC: Guidelines on Community Early Warning Systems

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has published a booklet with g

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Wed, 30/01/2013 - 08:07
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IFRC publications
Processed on Jan 30th 2013

Early Warning: European Environment Agency publishes lessons learned

New technologies have sometimes had very harmful effects, but in many cases the early warning signs have been suppressed or ignored.

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Thu, 24/01/2013 - 14:02
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EEA
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55.6812
longitude: 
12.5866
Processed on Jan 24th 2013

Weather forecasts can save thousands of lives

Tropical Cyclone Funso

In a recent article in Nature, Peter J.

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Publishing Date: 
Fri, 04/01/2013 - 10:19
latitude: 
33.749
longitude: 
-84.388
Processed on Jan 4th 2013

UNEP-GEAS publishes Report on Early Warning Systems

The UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) has launched an in-depth report focusing on

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Thu, 16/08/2012 - 12:48
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UNEP
Processed on Aug 16th 2012

Disaster management center up in forum

The Philippines will seek assistance in setting up a disaster management center at next week’s forum of lawmakers in the region in Japan, a senator said yesterday.

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Tue, 10/01/2012 - 15:01
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Business World Online
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12.8797
longitude: 
121.774
Processed on Jan 10th 2012

Crisis mapping and disaster risk reduction

Crisis mapping has emerged in the last five years as a dynamic and open way to visualize and report on crisis and disasters.

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Tue, 20/12/2011 - 13:56
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United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Processed on Dec 20th 2011

Local and hi-tech responses needed when disaster strikes in Africa

Indigenous knowledge should be harnessed to new technologies to help break the cycle of natural calamities in Africa, according to Juliana Rotich, executive director of Ushahidi, a Nairobi-based on

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Tue, 20/12/2011 - 12:43
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Science and Development Network
Processed on Dec 20th 2011

NASA: Two Waves Formed Japan's Destructive Tsunami

NASA and Ohio State University researchers have discovered the major tsunami generated by the March 2011 Tohoku-Oki quake centered off northeastern Japan was a long-hypothesized "merging tsuna

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Publishing Date: 
Wed, 07/12/2011 - 09:52
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NASA
latitude: 
38.297
longitude: 
142.372
Processed on Dec 7th 2011