Disaster Alert (Pacific Disaster Center's World Disaster Alerts) by Pacific Disaster Center
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Description
Disaster Alert (by Pacific Disaster Center) provides a listing and an interactive map of Active Hazards occurring around the globe. Additional hazard information can be viewed and shared.
The term "Active Hazards" refers to a collection of current and real-time incidents (compiled from authoritative sources) which have been designated "potentially hazardous to people, property, or assets" by the PDC DisasterAWARE application.
The application is a free download.
PDC Active Hazards currently includes:
-Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone (global)
-Drought (global)
-Earthquake (global)
-Flood (global)
-National Weather Service High Surf (for Hawaii)
-National Weather Service High Wind (for Hawaii)
-National Weather Service Flood (for Hawaii)
-Manmade (global)
-Marine (global)
-Storm (global)
-Tsunami (global)
-Volcano (global)
-Wildfire (global)- coming soon!
Other hazards will be added over time.
Application features include:
View Active Hazards on an interactive map or in the Alert list
Choose background map
Get "more info" for most Active Hazards
Receive automatic updates every five minutes
Choose a preferred time zone
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, iTouch (OS 3.x and 4.x)
What's New in Version 1.40
- iOS 5.1 compatibility updates;
- FAQ resource update;
- Misc bug fixes.
Customer Reviews
Very interesting very informative (5 stars)
Well worth the price. Fun to monitor all the amazing changes and patterns around the entire world
Well done (4 stars)
Very well designed & executed. Great UI. Informative tool for disaster preparedness. Nice toggle options on maps (eg, bing versus google, roads, satellite, hybrid, etc).
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