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- Emergency services face social media storm front
- by Daniel Lewis. The Age, November 11, 2012. "Perhaps people should have known better than to trust someone with the Twitter handle @ComfortablySmug during hurricane Sandy. Some of his tweets, such as "BREAKING: Confirmed flooding on NYSE. The trading floor is flooded under more than 3 feet of water," were false. But before this summer's fire season, the devastating storm showed the power of social media when it comes to natural disasters. For many people, Twitter was their chief real-time source of information as the storm lashed the US east coast. But it had its pitfalls as well as its positives and the storm created its own social media storm..."
Added: 12 November 2012;
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- Public Alerts now on Google Maps
- Posted by Steve Hakusa, Public Alerts Engineer. Google Lat Long Blog, Wednesday, January 25, 2012. "Today marks the launch of a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and where you're searching for them. If a major weather event is headed for your area, you might go online to search for the information you need: What’s happening? Where and when will it strike? How severe will it be? What resources are available to help? The Google Crisis Response team works on providing critical emergency information during crises. Our goal is to surface emergency information through the online tools you use everyday, when that information is relevant and useful..."
Added: 15 February 2012;
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- SOS Rescue Me iPhone App
- By Numa AS. iTunes. "With the SOS Rescue Me app, you can feel safe when walking home from town. If you ever feel threatened, simply click the SOS button, and a preselected set of contacts will receive an SMS with your current location. You can also add friends from Facebook and have them be continously updated with your location..."
Added: 20 December 2011;
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- SOS app for mobile released
- by Peter Dinham. IT Wire, Monday, 19 December 2011. "Norwegian company, Numa, has launched an emergency SOS alert application for mobile users - "SOS Rescue Me" – which can be downloaded from the iTunes store..."
Added: 20 December 2011;
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- Social media for emergency managers can't start when the emergency does
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 10 November 2011. "Developing emergency managers' capacity to benefit from social media requires more than simply training them to monitor Facebook pages and to adopt new technology to separate sound from noise in the cacophonous Twitter feed following a disaster, experts said Thursday. To use social media effectively during emergencies, officials also must have in place a social community so that affected people know where to turn when they're out of water, trapped in their homes, or don't have information about where to find shelter, experts said during a panel discussion sponsored by the Wilson Center think tank's Science and Technology Innovation Program..."
Added: 14 November 2011;
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- CeBIT 2011: Twitter to detect earthquakes, tsunamis
- Geosciences Australia suggests Twitter's speed could enable agencies to detect earthquakes faster than traditional seismometer networks, by Tim Lohman (Computerworld). CIO, 1 June, 2011. "Geosciences Australia has flagged that social networking applications such as Twitter may become the latest means for sourcing data on earthquakes and tsunamis in the region. At the CeBIT conference in Sydney this week, the agency’s Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division chief, Andrew Barnicoat, said the use of Twitter in the US had shown the potential of the medium to detect such natural disasters..."
Added: 2 June 2011;
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- Havaria Information Service - Alert Map
- Provided by National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications, Emergency and Disaster Information Services (EDIS), Budapest Hungary. Interactive Google Map showing live locations of active volcano activity and eruptions, earthquakes, epidemics, pollution events, heat waves, extreme weather events, biological hazards, etc.
Added: 16 November 2010;
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- Real-time Alerts with Google Maps
- Posted by Keir Clarke, Google Maps Mania, Thursday, November 11, 2010. "This live Google Map from the Emergency and Disaster Information Services (EDIS) in Hungary shows the latest earthquakes, volcano eruptions, floods and other disasters around the world. The map also shows the major oceanic rifts and transform faults..."
Added: 16 November 2010;
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This category last updated: 12 November 2012
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