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EM-DAT Progress and Presentation of the new website

Learn about the new features and improvements of EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database. Discover how it helps in rationalizing decision making for disaster preparedness and vulnerability assessment. Join us at the Alexander F. Díaz EM-DAT Technical Advisory Group Meeting in New York, 26-28 October 2009.

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EM-DAT Progress and Presentation of the new website

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  1. EM-DATProgress and Presentation of the new website Alexander F. Díaz EM-DAT Technical Advisory Group Meeting New York, 26-28 October 2009

  2. Layout and Original Concept • Dynamic website • Friendly Interface • Easy Navigation • Internet Compatibility • Text Search Engine

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  4. Website What’s new? Welcome Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government. The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. For example, it allows on to decide whether floods in a given country are more significant in terms of its human impact than earthquakes or whether a country is more vulnerable than another for computing resources is. EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 16,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies. Access Database Supported by Latest Disaster Events

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