Vol. 10, No. 1 October-December 2004

Back to Contents
Editor's Corner
Theme
From the Grassroots
Insight
ADPC Programs & Activities
Training & Education
  Obituary
UDRM Making Cities Safer
Bookmarks
Book Review
WWW Sites

 

WEBSITES

http://www.asc-india.org/
Amateur Seismic Centre. An informative site started by a young undergraduate as a personal project who is now working as an Earthquake Hazard Researcher with the United Nations Development Programme. The site is a collection of information on recent quakes in South Asia. Topics include: how we feel a quake, intensity maps, seismicity, tsunamis, fault plane sols, and photographs.

http://www-megacities.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/www-mega/downloads/
A comprehensive summary of the Earthquake Master Plan for Istanbul prepared by Mustafa Erdik from Bogazici University. The development of the master plan was initiated by a request from the Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) to a consortium involving four leading Turkish universities: Bogazici, Istanbul Technical, Middle East Technical and Yildiz Technical.

http://www.fema.gov/hazards/earthquakes/nehrp/
FEMA set up this site on their National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). It includes resources, best practices, news releases, and more. NEHRP is a Federal Government program to reduce the risks to life and property from earthquakes. NEHRP agencies comprise; FEMA, the lead agency; the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); the National Science Foundation (NSF); and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

http://www.lastfirst.net/index.php
Last-First Networks Tools for Change. This non-profit resource centre is dedicated to advancing effective community renewal and grassroots development. It achieves this by raising awareness of proven practical approaches to working with poor and marginal groups of any society, and by resourcing practitioners and organizations who work with these groups. The website has a searchable catalogue of over 11,000 resources on every aspect of community renewal, social change, peace-building, aid and development practice, micro-enterprise, advocacy and much more. An online shopping feature allows users to order resources online.

http://www.disastereducation.org/guide.html
Talking About Disaster: Guide for Standard Messages (2004). This site contains awareness and action messages intended to help people reduce risk of injury or loss in the event of natural or human-caused disasters. The earthquake section covers the need to talk about earthquake disasters and awareness messages, actions to be taken at all phases of a disaster event, Dos & Don’ts and Facts & Fictions about earthquakes. Produced by the National Disaster Education Coalition (NDEC), Washington DC, the Expert Disaster Preparedness Guide may be downloaded for free.

http://www.undp.org.in/dmweb/UEVRP/
UNDP’s Urban Earthquake Vulnerability Reduction Project’s (UEVRP). A collection of information resources on project activities, maps, photographs, publications, documents and manuals, training courses and workshops, human-interest stories, best practices and lessons learned.

 


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