On Disaster: Technologies Involved

I happened to stumble into disaster preparedness and mitigation guidelines which was written by Dr.Satyabrata Sahu. Chapter 1 in particular discusses "Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness" which also includes the technologies involved in early warning system. As technology develops further, it is not surprising to find the growing reliance on many different platforms to provide robustness, redundancy, speed and maximum availability. Radio is, apparently, not the only important player in delivering the critical message to the masses. Of course radio still play a crucial role in our age, but if the prediction of the death of radio comes true, I personally believe that some other broadcast platform will be able to take over the role of radio. Maybe the emergency centers can have their twitter account and people can follow the account for emergency alerts. I believe in the future reliability of mobile internet will be even better than today and provides an viable alternative to radio.

Please find also a few of the disaster centers which utilize many different technologies:

- FEMA

- NOAA

- GDACS

- US Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau