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Defense technology redirected for disaster risk reduction
Defense technology redirected for disaster risk reduction
As the Cold War was ending, in the early 1990s, many visionaries were imagining how to repurpose advanced technologies developed for defending the nation for public good. ...
Announcing high availability of DisasterAWARE
Announcing high availability of DisasterAWARE
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), a program managed by the University of Hawai‘i, recently announced deployment of its DisasterAWARE High Availability (H/A) architecture. The...
Pacific Disaster Center’s mission established in federal law
Pacific Disaster Center’s mission established in federal law
Years before Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) opened its doors in 1996, a definite cause and a clear vision of what such a Center was to do had to be established. Back then,...
A difficult road to recovery: One year following the M7.8 Nepal earthquake
A difficult road to recovery: One year following the M7.8 Nepal earthquake
The violent shaking caused by the 7.8M earthquake on April 25, 2015, and the major aftershocks that followed, claimed nearly 9,000 lives, severely damaged critical...
State of emergency declared in six provinces following M7.8 earthquake in Ecuador
State of emergency declared in six provinces following M7.8 earthquake in Ecuador
In the wake of what has been reported as the strongest earthquake to strike Ecuador in decades, response operations are underway as search and rescue teams and response...
M7.0 earthquake strikes Japan following M6.2, M6.0 foreshocks
M7.0 earthquake strikes Japan following M6.2, M6.0 foreshocks
Barely 24 hours after being struck by a 6.2M earthquake Kumamoto Prefecture has once again been shaken by a strong, shallow quake. Early Saturday (local time), a 7.0M...
Response operations underway in Japan following M6.2 earthquake
Response operations underway in Japan following M6.2 earthquake
Pacific Disaster Center is providing support to ongoing response operations following the 6.2M earthquake that struck near Ueki, Japan, on April 14. According to initial...
Indonesian disaster professionals learn to train co-workers on InAWARE
Indonesian disaster professionals learn to train co-workers on InAWARE
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) has been working closely with Indonesia’s national disaster management organization (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana, BNPB) to build...
A partnership to help response and damage assessments following Tropical Cyclone Winston
A partnership to help response and damage assessments following Tropical Cyclone Winston
Throughout the many weeks after Tropical Cyclone Winston made landfall in the Fiji islands as a Category 5 cyclone—deemed the “most devastating storm on record in the...
Developing tsunami awareness and reducing disaster risk
Developing tsunami awareness and reducing disaster risk
Given the devastating impacts that can occur from natural hazards, it is critical that families and individuals around the world take steps to reduce their risk with regard...