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Telling Stats Regarding Earthquake Death Ratios

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 280 Views
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago, updated 1 year, 11 months ago
This excellent article was forwarded to a group of people working on Haiti. It seems like the perfect example of "Lessons Learned" information that we want to encourage people to share within the Starfish Community. Here's the link to a BBC Article on Death Comparisons between the recent China ...

Tech Communications in Padang?

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
0 Votes 4 Replies 324 Views
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago, updated 2 years, 1 month ago
After seeing a number of updates from around Padang and the response to the earthquakes from 2 weeks ago, there has been little definitive news regarding any extra communications that may have been brought into the area by the responders. It is possible there was not anything extra brought in ...

IDRN.INFO Website

Matt Wallace
76 Posts
0 Votes 1 Reply 187 Views
Posted 2 years, 3 months ago, updated 2 years, 3 months ago
The International Disaster Response Network (IDRN) has enabled a website to provide informational reports. It can be found at www.IDRN.INFO As of this posting, this website has reports regarding the Indonesian Earthquakes and Manila Flooding.

Sumatra Earthquake Report - Saturday

Jerry Miner
3 Posts
1 Vote 1 Reply 219 Views
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago, updated 2 years, 4 months ago
Here is the first report from our people on the ground in Padang: our guys have done some survey early in the morning, and they found that the need of water and electricity is very high. In Padang itself (the capital of west sumatra province), the need of water are ...

Indonesia Earthquake Response

Jerry Miner
3 Posts
3 Votes 1 Reply 203 Views
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago, updated 2 years, 4 months ago
Water Missions International has 32 water treatment systems on the ground in Indonesia ready to deploy as needed. Each system is capable of purifying 10 gallons of water per minute (fresh water source/ suspended solid removal). We also have 5 locally trained technicians on the ground available to help

Disaster Respose Tags

Matt Miller
54 Posts
0 Votes 2 Replies 140 Views
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago, updated 2 years, 4 months ago
I just added a set of tags for discussions related to response to the flooding in the Philippines. Use these tags in conjunction with the Disaster Response tags to organize you conversations. Feel free to create new tags if the ones I've entered aren't sufficient. If you send ...