Earthquakes and E-Resilience
An earthquake can be defined as the shaking of earth caused by waves moving on and below the earth's surface and causing: surface faulting, tremors vibration, liquefaction, landslides, aftershocks and/or tsunamis. Earthquakes can have severe consequences for people and critical ICT infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific. The E-Resilience Toolkit offers insights into a spectrum of available ICT tools and best practices that may benefit policymakers, DRM professionals and vulnerable communities in the Asia-Pacific region to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of earthquake hazard.
Displaying 43 - 48 of 48 tools and best practices relevant to earthquake hazard.
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The UN-APCICT virtual academy offers training modules in ICT for Disaster Risk Management, among others.
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Sahana is a free, open-source modular software platform for disaster management and humanitarian assistance.
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IDRN is a web-based platform for managing inventories of equipment, human resources and critical supplies for emergency response.
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EM-DAT is an online database of historical disaster related information maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Its is a global database on natural and technological disasters, containing essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 disasters in the world, from 1900 to present.
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AIDR is free and open source software that automatically collects and classifies tweets that are posted during humanitarian crises.
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MyShake is a free app for Android smartphones that has the ability to recognize earthquake shaking using the sensors in every smartphone.