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No progress on dam safety in Sri Lanka

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on September 23, 2007 — 1 Comment

A member of the Presidential Commission on the Tsunami has written an informative article on floods, dam breaches and the lack of warning about them. Twenty one years after Kantale, 2.5 years after the tsunami, 1.5 years after we handed over our extensive report on dam safety to the Disaster Management Center, more [...]

Posted in Disaster | Also tagged Dam Safety Unit, Irrigation Department, Kantale Tank Dam, LKR, Presidential Commission on the Tsunami, Rs, Sri Lanka, unregistered car, USD

Assessment of response to Bengkulu earthquake

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on September 14, 2007 — 4 Comments

It has been a practice at LIRNEasia to write an assessment of the responses to potentially tsunamigenic events in the region. We commented on Nias and Pangandaran. Now that the discussion on the response is starting, here is our take:
Lessons from the Sri Lanka tsunami warnings and evacuation of September 12-13, 2007

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Posted in General | Also tagged addressable satellite radio sets, Arugam Bay-Panama coast, Bangladesh, Bengkulu, Colombo, communication systems, earthquake, GSM/CDMA, India Ocean, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Last Mile, Matara, Met Department, Mile HazInfo, Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, mobile phones, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Panama, Rohan Samarajiva, Sarvodaya, SMS, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Meteorological Department, taped telephone voice message, Thailand, tsunami

The Role of Telecom Operators and Broadcasters in a National Public Warning System

Written by Udu-gama on September 10, 2007 — 3 Comments

On Friday, September 7, 2007, the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights (MDMHR), with the support of LIRNEasia, held a meeting on “The Role of Telecom Operators and Broadcasters in a National Public Warning System” with a six of the eight major telecom operators, as well as several disaster management-related government agencies (NBRO, Irrigation [...]

Posted in Disaster, Documents, Events, Media coverage, Noteworthy | Also tagged Anjula Godakumbara, Dialog Telekom, electronic media, encryption, Gamini Hettiarachchi, GSM, Human Rights, important technology, internal protocols, Last Mile, MicroImage, Ministry of Disaster Management, Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, National Council on Disaster Management, P.D. Amarasinghe, Rohan Samarajiva, SMS, Sri Lanka, U.W.L. Chandradasa, University of Moratuwa Research Lab, uses existing communication infrastructure, www.dialog.lk/dewn, Yala National Park

Mapping disaster research

Written by Rohan Samarajiva on February 14, 2006 — 5 Comments

NSF EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP ON SENSOR BASED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EARLY TSUNAMI DETECTION, Maui, Feb 9-10, 2006
What I learned during my visits to the Civil Defense Center and the Tsunami Museum in Hilo and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach in Hawai’i last January greatly contributed to the disaster communication research program undertaken by LIRNEasia [...]

Posted in Disaster, Documents | Also tagged Arthur C. Clarke Centre, Chip McCreery, Civil Defense Center, Daniel Mosse, deep-sea sensor devices, early warning systems, Ewa Beach, GPS, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Kenya, Louise Comfort, National Science Foundation, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Pittsburgh, public warning systems, Rhett Butler, sensor networks, sensor-based networks, separate systems, Sri Lanka, Taieb Znati, Tanzania, Thailand, Tsunami Museum, United States, Vanguard Foundation, Walter Mooney

Tag Archives: Disaster Management Center

No progress on dam safety in Sri Lanka

Assessment of response to Bengkulu earthquake

The Role of Telecom Operators and Broadcasters in a National Public Warning System

Mapping disaster research

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