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IAEM
The new IAEM Digital Pass will give you access to several livestreamed and recorded keynote and plenary sessions, one recorded session in each spotlight and breakout session block, and the EMvision Talks session. Register today to receive your digital pass, or register for the annual conference, and receive a complimentary Digital Pass and view sessions you were unable to see in person. For complete details, view our Digital Pass page. View an example of recordings from last year to see what you can expect to receive in this year's Digital Pass.
IAEM
The premiere emergency management event of the year is only 15 days away. Have you registered to attend? The IAEM 63rd Annual Conference & EMEX will take place Nov. 13-18, in Clark County, Nevada, and it will only take a brief look at the online program to see the value of this event. Secure your spot by registering today, perhaps adding a pre-/post-conference training course and booking your lodging online. Attending in-person isn't possible for everyone, but you can attend virtually by purchasing the IAEM Digital Pass. If this will be your first IAEM Annual Conference, view the "Expanding Your Conference Experience" webinar to learn why you should join IAEM members at our flagship event.
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Register today for the next IAEM Think Tank, "Special Events from the Emergency Management Perspective," to take place Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 4:15-5:30 p.m. EST. Attendees at the IAEM Annual Conference may attend this Think Tank in person. At any given time, there can be festivals, races, concerts, large sporting events, and national special security events (NSSE) happening all around the country. These special events not only draw in more people to a community than normal, but also increase the demand on the area's response services. A special event requires additional planning, preparedness and mitigation efforts by local and federal emergency response and public safety agencies. Each of the panelists has experience in preparing for and implementing special events from a smaller scale to national special security events. Former Deputy Administrator of FEMA, Richard Serino, will facilitate the Think Tank panel. Among the panelists are: Carolyn Levering, CEM, Emergency Manager, City of Las Vegas, Nevada; and Bryan Koon, Director, Florida Division of Emergency Management. Information about these and other panelists will be available on the IAEM Think Tank webpage.
NPR
More than 300 people are dead the day after an earthquake hit Afghanistan and shook surrounding countries. At least 2,000 people are injured, NPR's Philip Reeves reported. "This is a very remote landscape," Reeves noted, "and it can take a long time before you find out exactly who's been impacted by a disaster of this kind."
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Disaster-control and environment experts have advised local government units, especially in flood-prone areas, to review their respective geohazard maps and land use plans. That way, they can identify high-risk areas as a way of cutting loss of lives and property damage during disasters.
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Greater Kashmir
A cursory look at post-2005 earthquake management reveals that successive governments have failed to come up with an effective quake risk mitigation strategies — structural as well as non-structural. For the past several years, the J&K government (Jammu and Kashmir) has been continuously boasting of introducing the disaster management policy that would outline the strategies to cope up with the calamities including earthquake. But its implementation continues to be missing on ground.
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Hundreds of disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response partners from across the Pacific are gathering in Suva this week for a joint program of events around regional resilience to disasters and emergency management. The week starts with the two-day Pacific Regional Disaster Resilience Meeting, which brings together disaster management agencies and others to discuss the challenges of improving disaster management across the region with a view to saving lives and reducing disaster losses.
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Voice of America
A United Nations regional economic commission says the Asia-Pacific region faces rising human and economic costs from natural disasters in the coming decades, unless regional governments take steps to invest in disaster mitigation. The human and economic toll from natural disasters affecting the Asia-Pacific is rising, with rapid economic growth, rising populations and urbanization leaving all societies at risk.
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Leadership
Nigeria's Federal Government in collaboration with the ECOWAS had concluded plans to establish the Regional Centre for Disease Control with headquarters in Abuja. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Linus Awute, made this known at the technical committee meeting of the West Africa Health Organization (WAHO) in Abuja.
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Gulf News
Dubai Civil Defence (DCD) will distribute free of cost hundreds of "personal connectors" among people with special needs, the DCD announced on Thursday at Gitex Technology Week. Personal connectors are tiny devices with mobile chips that can help track the movement of people using them while also enabling them to seek instant emergency services at the push of a button.
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Trade Arabia
The Dubai Civil Defence launched the Personal Dashboard, which will allow the emirate's residents and visitors to connect to its services and import their personal data and view them on a great intuitive interface. This way will allow residents and visitors to visualize data and keep them informed and connected, per a statement.
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Vox
Last week, meteorologists were (rightly) cranking the sirens over Hurricane Patricia. In the span of just 30 hours, an ordinary tropical storm had mutated into the most powerful hurricane ever measured, with ferocious 200-mile-per-hour winds. And the cyclone was barreling right toward Mexico's southwestern coast. But then ... Patricia didn't end up causing anywhere near as much devastation as feared. So what happened?
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Turks & Caicos Weekly News
Several local emergency response teams were this week exposed to a comprehensive three days disaster response and preparedness training course. The three days capacity building seminar was hosted by the Department of Disaster Management and Emergencies in conjunction with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the National Emergency Operations Centre.
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The Australian
Since December, Australia has been facing historic flooding that surprised the entire country. Although the risk was known, many were ill-prepared because these floods are not just another average flood, they are of very large-scale magnitude. Three-quarters of Queensland has been declared a disaster zone. In the immediate aftermath, most of the efforts need to be focused on rescuing and helping the victims of this disaster. But what happens after that?
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Homeland Security
A Government Accountability Office audit report found in December 2014 federal departments had identified emergency response capability gaps through national-level exercises and real-world incidents, but that the status of agency actions to address these gaps is not collected by or reported to the Department of Homeland Security or Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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The Hill
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) is pushing for emergency responders to be included in a task force that is crafting a new registration system for drones. The Federal Aviation Administration said last week that it is setting up a drone registration task force after an increase in the number of pilots who have reported sightings of the devices during flights.
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In 2014, one person confirmed with Ebola set off a panic in the United States. Though 28,000 people died of heart disease while media attention focused on that outbreak, and anti-vaccine parents on the West Coast were suddenly prepared to spend any amount of money to get their children immunized against it, what happened with pandemic preparation after the fear subsided was ... not much.
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Danbury News Times
Even in these days of incessant tweets, texts and Facebook posts, a century-old form of social media is drawing new enthusiasts by embracing the latest technology. Members of amateur, or ham, radio clubs in the area may use everything from a telegraph key and Morse code to satellites to transmit video, digital data and voice communications.
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IAEM
Candidates scheduled to recertify in 2015 are reminded that the applications must be submitted to IAEM headquarters by 11:59 p.m. EST, Dec. 31. Please take into account that the online certification payment must be submitted at least 24 hours before this date so it can be applied to your account. Applications are submitted to IAEM headquarters once candidates hit the blue "submit application" button on the candidate dashboard. If you need assistance, please contact an IAEM staff member prior to the holidays.
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The National Homeland Security Consortium (NHSC), of which IAEM is a member, has published a new Web page with a new consortium logo and informational video. Along with the new online look, the NHSC site provides enhanced resource materials. The National Homeland Security Consortium is a unique, one-of-a-kind group of state and local organizations, elected officials, and the private sector who
work together to address the complex challenges of homeland security. The NHSC seeks to share timely information on model practices and lessons learned through regular meetings, teleconferences and topical webinars. NHSC membership is by invitation; however, the group welcomes opportunities to work with other stakeholders on issues of common interest. Contact NEMA as the administrative agent of the NHSC to propose homeland security policy related engagement.
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GreenBiz
In 2008 the U.S. Geological Survey reported that California has a 99 percent chance of a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years. Just last year, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake knocked out power to more than 40,000 people in the San Francisco Bay area. This was the fourth earthquake of magnitude 6 or greater to hit the Bay Area since 1979, including the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that disrupted the 1989 World Series and knocked out power to 1.4 million people. So the city of San Francisco is not taking any chances — it's preparing for the (next) big one with microgrids.
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United Nations
Amid growing fears that the irregular climatic activities of El Niño will result in severe weather events across the hazard-prone region of small islands and atolls in the Pacific, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today addressed a gathering in Suva, Fiji, of disaster reduction and humanitarian response partners from across the region at a joint programme of events around regional resilience to disasters and emergency management.
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Los Angeles Times
The U.S. Geological Survey is raising serious doubts about a recent study that calculates a 99.9 percent chance of a large earthquake in the Los Angeles area in the next three years. The USGS took the rare step of issuing a statement raising questions about the study, recently published in the journal Earth and Space Science and coauthored by a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge.
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IAEM
A volunteer connection forum will be held on Monday, Nov. 2, from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. MDT, before the start of the 6th Annual National Roundtable Meeting of Canada's Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Both events will take place at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Conference Center (Plaza 3) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The forum offers an opportunity for those interested in the efforts of the volunteer sector in disaster risk reduction. Representatives from the federal, provincial and territorial governments will discuss an initiative of senior EM officials which is exploring the use of EM volunteers in a technical capacity in Canada. After the presentation, the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Volunteer Sector Working Group will provide an overview of their ongoing activities, including work being undertaken that directly contributes to the volunteer initiative. Participants will be invited to participate in a discussion session to share their views on how strong volunteer-based organizations help to build resilient communities. Contact Marcie Scott via email or by phone at 613-949-6612 by Oct. 28 if you wish to attend.
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The Smithsonian Institution and the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), in cooperation with the Prince Claus Fund Cultural Emergency Response Programme, will present the "International Course: First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis," May 23-June 24 in Washington, D.C. After four international and more than nine regional and national editions of this curriculum in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, this course now will be hosted for the first time in the United States. The course content will be enriched through case examples on safeguarding cultural heritage in the aftermath of national disasters, such as Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy. To learn more, see the full online announcement, course framework document, and Infographic on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis. The deadline for submitting applications online is Nov. 9. Direct any questions to ICCROM at aidincrisis@iccrom.org.
Newsweek
More than 300 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan have been killed by the 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck South Asia on Monday, while hundreds more have been injured. The death toll from the earthquake had topped 300 by Tuesday morning. The majority of the confirmed deaths — 228 — occurred in Pakistan, where more than 1,000 people were also injured. In Afghanistan, more than 80 people were killed and at least 200 were injured, although authorities expect the death toll to rise as more remote, mountainous regions become accessible to rescue teams.
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USA Today
Mexico's Pacific coast braced for a terrifying night Friday as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere made landfall in a popular tourist area, packing winds of 165 mph. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated in advance of the storm, which barreled toward the country with sustained winds of 200 mph for much of the day before speeds decreased ahead of its landfall 55 miles west-northwest of Manzanillo in the evening. The U.S. National Hurricane Center had warned the Category 5 storm could be "potentially catastrophic."
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The Weather Channel
Persistent onshore winds coupled with the monthly spring tides led to the highest tides in decades Tuesday morning along the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, driving coastal flooding into Charleston, South Carolina, among other areas. At least 20 homes, including two businesses, were damaged by the high water at Edisto Beach, South Carolina, according to a local storm report from the National Weather Service.
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The Times-Picayune
The effects of torrential rains, surge-producing winds and thunderstorms strong enough to spawn tornadoes kept southeast Louisiana emergency officials and meteorologists busy Monday morning. At 7:30 a.m., New Orleans officials reported water had covered Chef Menteur Highway between the Textron Systems manufacturing plant and Venetian Isles, and only high-water vehicles could pass.
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The Associated Press via CTV
Severe weather swept across the Middle East on Sunday, pounding Israel with baseball-sized hail, sending torrents of uncollected garbage through the streets of Beirut and killing six people in Egypt, five of whom were electrocuted by a fallen power cable.
The cable from a tramway in the coastal city of Alexandria landed in streets flooded with water, electrocuting the five, senior health official Magdy Hegazy said. He said a sixth person, a judge, drowned when he was trapped in his car by the floodwaters.
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