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New website gives tips on how to prepare for and survive a tsunami
Mumbai :: India | about 21 hours ago
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US national committee on tsunami warning and preparedness. "But people educated about tsunami warning signs can save their own lives and the lives of others," he added. A tsunami can quickly engulf vulnerable coastal regions resulting in widespread destruction...
Tags: web sites, warning signs, ocean tsunamis, India, Mumbai, Warning systems, Water waves, Indian Ocean earthquake, Earthquake, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Technology Internet, Tsunami, Earthquake engineering, Physical oceanography, Environment, Disaster Accident
Body found in Whakatane (Newstalk ZB)
Whakatane :: New Zealand | 1 day ago
Credibility The Oxford Dictionary defines racism as "1. Belief in the superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this...Antagonism towards people of other races."Since his expletive laced email tirade Hone Harawira has been called many... Ellie Evans November...
Tags: New Zealand, Whakatane, Leader peptidase A, Lepa, Tsunami, Diggers, Hone Harawira, Taser, Expletive
Plan to improve disaster warnings
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, Dr Gerard Fryer, said it was important that people took warnings seriously. "In 1953 there was an earthquake which triggered a landslide," he said. He said for an event such as the one in 1953, warning...
Tags: Honolulu, Tsunami warning system, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Tsunami, Warning systems, Flood, Disaster Accident, Environment
Magnitude 5 earthquake rocks Yogyakarta, Klaten
Yogyakarta :: Indonesia | 3 days ago
Credibility The epicenter of the quake was 107 southwest Wonosari of Yogyakarta and was 23 kilometer beneath the earth, tempointeraktif.com has reported. Resident Febrianti Ika Dewi said that the tremor was quitely felt in her office in Klaten. “The tremor lasted...
Tags: Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tsunami, Earthquake engineering, Klaten Regency, Earthquake, Disaster Accident, Environment, Central Java, Mount Slamet, Provinces of Indonesia, Jakarta, Law Crime
Town wants disaster plan
Nadi :: Fiji Islands | 4 days ago
Credibility The town's special administrator, Aisea Tuidraki, said since there was an international airport in Nadi, it was only natural that the town, municipal council and the people be prepared for the worst. Mr Tuidraki said they needed to know how capable they...
Tags: Fiji Islands, Nadi, Disasters, Natural disaster, Earthquake, Tsunami, Emergency management, Technology Internet, Earthquake engineering, Flood, Natural hazards, Disaster Accident, Nadi F.C., Disaster, Sigatoka, Nadroga-Navosa, Nadi Fiji, Environment
Aussies still helping out in Tonga
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | 4 days ago
Credibility Tobruk has been anchored off the island of Niuatoputapu since earlier today, offloading more than 500 tonnes of much needed equipment and supplies. It is the second leg of its aid mission, having already stopped off in Samoa, which lost 177 people to...
Tags: Tongan, HMAS Tobruk, Tonga, Nuku'alofa, American Samoa, Environment, Tongan mythology, Niuatoputapu, Tsunami, Disaster Accident
HSU guide seeks to improve quake, tsunami readiness
Eureka :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility The new booklet addresses one of the main reasons for the high casualties in the south Asia disaster -- simple ignorance of the dangers. It is based on the latest scientific, engineering and sociological research, is written in easy-to-read prose and...
Tags: Eureka, Physical oceanography, Tsunami, Indian Ocean earthquake, Earthquake, Redwood National and State Parks, Tsunamis, Earthquake engineering, Humboldt County California, Disaster Accident, Environment
Moderate quake strikes off Indonesia
Tasikmalaya :: Indonesia | 5 days ago
Credibility A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's West Java province on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, officials said. The quake struck at 9:17 am (0217 GMT), 214 kilometres (133 miles)...
Tags: Indonesia, Tasikmalaya, Earthquake, Quake, July 2006 Java earthquake, Historic tsunamis, Earthquake engineering, Seismology, Tsunami, Disaster Accident, Environment
5.1-magnitude quake strikes Davao Oriental
Davao :: Philippines | 6 days ago
Credibility Philippines�A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the gulf of Davao Oriental province at dawn Tuesday, but it was not strong enough to cause any harm or damage to lives and property, said Eleazar Jorjio of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.
Tags: Davao Oriental, Philippines, Davao, Davao del Norte, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Tsunami, Tagum City, Provinces of the Philippines, Cities in the Philippines, Davao Region, Disaster Accident, Environment, Davao City, Regions of the Philippines
Taiwan to boost quake warning system with undersea facility
Taipei :: Taiwan | 7 days ago
Credibility Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, officials said on Sunday. The station, which is due to come into service in 2011, would...
Tags: Taiwan, Taipei, Physical oceanography, Submarine earthquake, Earthquake, Central Weather Bureau, Toucheng Yilan, Plate tectonics, Earthquake engineering, Tsunami, Disaster Accident, Environment, Quake, Earthquake prediction, Seismology, Earthquakes
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