Category Archives: Earthquakes
Christchurch Earthquake Visualization
I’ve had this ‘in the stack’ for a while, but with last week’s event, it moved to the top. The University of Canterbury’s Digital Media Group developed the Christchurch Quake Map. In their words, it “present[s] a time-lapse visualisation of … Continue reading
Disaster DVDs from National Archives
(I need a tag for this item called “not-sure-how-I-feel-about-this”) In case you don’t get enough storm stories from the Weather Channel’s “When Weather Changed History” series, the National Archives has produced a boxed set of DVDs, available at your local … Continue reading
Search and Rescue throughout history
American Heritage magazine features an interesting article, “Heavy Rescue”, describing the history of search and rescue, and looking into the future. The article covers both the improvements in technology and management of crises such as building collapse over time. This … Continue reading
GAO report on post-disaster collaboration
This item came to my attention a while ago (it was first published in July 2009), but I finally got a minute to actually look at it. DISASTER RECOVERY Experiences from Past Disasters Offer Insights for Effective Collaboration after Catastrophic … Continue reading
Earthquake “Meta-”post
(One more, and then I’ll move on. I promise…) The USGS website is a gift that keeps on giving as far as historic information on earthquakes is concerned. Need a list (with descriptions) of the earthquakes which caused 1000 or … Continue reading
Hospital Evacuations
Today’s story should be an earthquake one, given the recent events in Italy, but this story was an interesting link between the flooding in ND and the disaster unfolding in L’Aquila. The WHO marked World Health Day by focusing on … Continue reading
Global Incidents Map
Swinging away from the weather theme for a bit, the Global Incident Map is an interesting visual overview of the various ‘incidents’ that are happening all over the world. The term “incidents” is used broadly; items covered on the main … Continue reading
Alaskan Volcano Watch
I have a six-year old son who is more than interested in any type of weather event – we use the term “obsessed”, and we don’t use it lightly. Second only to tornadoes in his world are volcanoes, and he … Continue reading
2008 big year for earthquake fatalities worldwide
This just in, straight from the USGS: Earthquake Fatalities High in 2008 The number of earthquake-related fatalities across the world in 2008 — about 88,070 according to the USGS and confirmed by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian … Continue reading
Great American Shakeout Follow-up
I’d almost forgotten about the Great Southern California Shakeout (the earthquake drill that happened November 13, 2008) until the USGS very helpfully sent me a link to the “Corecast” for the “Lessons Learned” from the largest-ever earthquake scenario exercise. (Download … Continue reading