EWBS Emergency Warning Broadcast System
EarthquakesTsunamis
Know Your RiskPreparednessCommunication with Citizens
Preparedness and Response
The Emergency Warning Broadcast System (EWBS) transmits alerts to TV viewers and radio listeners.
Effective and appropriate communication with citizens is essential to disaster risk management and enhanced e-resilience in the Asia-Pacific region. 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 Asia and the Pacific to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of communication with citizens.
The Emergency Warning Broadcast System (EWBS) transmits alerts to TV viewers and radio listeners.
PAGASA provides weather forecasts and risk / flood hazard maps through ICT in the Philippines.
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.
By dialing 10941 in Bangladesh, people can receive emergency alerts related to weather, rainfall, cyclones, floods and landslides.
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology of Cambodia provides weather-related maps and information.