BY SUCCESS KANAYO UCHIME
A new device that will give early warning for disaster-prone areas using Blackberry devices and laptops has been launched by the Philippine Charity on Monday.
Agence France-Presse (AFP), who stated this development, said the devices are hooked to a text message system that would immediately alert the communities to typhoons, storm surges, tsunamis, landslides and earthquakes.
(Philippines President Benigo “Noynoy” Aquino III)
Speaking on this recent development, the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) noted that the 200,000-dollar project was carried out with the assistance of the World Bank and one of the country's leading mobile phone operators and is funded by the country's top chief executives.
The organization noted that the areas covered by the project are all in Southern Leyte province in the central Visayas region, which lies along a fault line and is also often battered by powerful typhoons.
According to them, the province was chosen (for the project) being one of the country's top 10 provinces highly prone to natural disasters like floods, tsunamis, storm surges, landslides, earthquakes, and typhoons.
They recalled that in 2006, heavy rain triggered a deadly mudslide that buried the entire village of Guinsaugon in Southern Leyte, killing more 1,000 people in one of the country's worst natural disasters of recent years.
PBSP said the deaths were blamed on a lack of proper seismic and weather equipment and an alert system that could have immediately led to a mass evacuation adding that the project's web-based information system enables officials from the towns to use BlackBerries and laptops to access and quickly spread alerts or store surveillance data, before, during and after disasters.
“The Philippines is considered among the world's most vulnerable countries to natural disasters. It sits on the Pacific's earthquake and volcano belt, and is battered by an average of 20 typhoons a year,” they stated.
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A new device that will give early warning for disaster-prone areas using Blackberry devices and laptops has been launched by the Philippine Charity on Monday.
Agence France-Presse (AFP), who stated this development, said the devices are hooked to a text message system that would immediately alert the communities to typhoons, storm surges, tsunamis, landslides and earthquakes.
(Philippines President Benigo “Noynoy” Aquino III)
The organization noted that the areas covered by the project are all in Southern Leyte province in the central Visayas region, which lies along a fault line and is also often battered by powerful typhoons.
According to them, the province was chosen (for the project) being one of the country's top 10 provinces highly prone to natural disasters like floods, tsunamis, storm surges, landslides, earthquakes, and typhoons.
They recalled that in 2006, heavy rain triggered a deadly mudslide that buried the entire village of Guinsaugon in Southern Leyte, killing more 1,000 people in one of the country's worst natural disasters of recent years.
PBSP said the deaths were blamed on a lack of proper seismic and weather equipment and an alert system that could have immediately led to a mass evacuation adding that the project's web-based information system enables officials from the towns to use BlackBerries and laptops to access and quickly spread alerts or store surveillance data, before, during and after disasters.
“The Philippines is considered among the world's most vulnerable countries to natural disasters. It sits on the Pacific's earthquake and volcano belt, and is battered by an average of 20 typhoons a year,” they stated.
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