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Disaster Management and Prevention (continued...)
RELATED SITES:
About the earthquake:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/
http://www.disasterscharter.org/disasters/CALID_077_e.html
More detailed information on the recent earthquake(s) :
http://pdmin.coe-dmha.org/apdr/
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_slav_ts.html
http://kinja.com/user/tsunami-info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
A list of significant recent earthquakes:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/
The map and tables:
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/current/indian.html
http://neic.usgs.gov/current_maps.html
http://www.unosat.org
About the Tsunami:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo_1204.html
Background:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsu.shtml
http://www.noaa.gov/tsunamis.html
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/library/pubs/great_waves/tsunami_great_waves.html
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/time/
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/Mov/TITOV-INDO2004.mov
There are Tsunami warning centres for the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Resources for the Pacific include:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/more_about/itsu/itsu.html [International Tsunami Information Centre (ITIC]:
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/
http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/
ITIC issues prompt warnings of impending hazards. For example, here is a description of one routine response to Sunday’s earthquake: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2358.htm Within 15 minutes of the event, warnings had been sent to all scheduled recipients. Thus, if Indian Ocean countries were on the network, they could have been notified “well before” the tsunami struck all but the closest coastlines to the earthquake’s epicentre. A list of countries that receive international warnings, and of countries that, according to the producers, apparently do NOT receive such warnings: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/more_about/itsu/countries_affected.html . Thailand is in the latter category.
Disaster management and prevention:
http://www.ranetproject.net (International protection project against natural hazards for the poor)
http://www.unisdr.org (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction)
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/socasp/toc_img.html (Societal Aspects of Weather)
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