Week of October 20: Emergency News You Can Use
A quick thanks to readers for their ideas on topics of interest. I will be on the lookout for relevant articles! Converted Ballistic Missiles Could Launch Aid to Disaster Zones [...]
Week of October 13: Emergency News You Can Use
A weekly round-up of news, articles and surveys to make your next emergency better. Have a suggestion for the round-up? Contact me at abetteremergency@gmail.com. Homelessness growing issue in Christchurch. I [...]
Earthquakes Don’t Kill People, Buildings Do – What is Reasonable Mitigation?
Should new building codes address retrofitting in existing structures that are likely to collapse and kill during an earthquake? After a decade of study and debate, San Francisco formally adopted [...]
Is there value in using smart devices for medical surveillance?
Should meta data from your mobile device data impact medical claims or influence decisions about care? The future of mobile devices as "collaborating witnesses" in treatment may already be here. [...]
Solving the Key Challenge of Disaster Response – Communication Failure
If you read any after action report of a major event, you'll typically find these at the top of the problem list: 1. Lack of communication 2. Lack of coordination [...]
Geofencing Alerts
Are you in favor of alerts being trigger via passive monitoring of you SMS enabled phone or smart device? For example, you go on a trip to the coast and [...]
News Worth Reading – Static electricity may be key to predicting earthquakes
A rise in static electricity below the ground could be a reliable indicator that an earthquake is imminent, say scientists who are now launching an experiment to predict quakes well [...]
Playing the odds, what kind of event will be the “big one” for 2013?
I asked the question back last year, what type of disaster would we see in 2012? Natural disasters including severe weather, flooding, earthquakes, fires and drought were the most common [...]
Does it really take a panel of experts to state the obvious?
I find it interesting to see terms like "unexpected". I would argue that most consequences may surprise us, but they were predictable. Why not form a panel to evaluate who [...]
Do We Lack The Will to Prepare?
Bobby Knight once said "The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." I have to wonder [...]