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Disaster Early Warning Systems: Mitigating Impact and Loss

Learn about natural disasters like earthquakes, droughts, and tsunamis with a focus on early warning systems to reduce damage. Explore the devastating impacts of the 2002 and 2011 floods in Dresden and the record-breaking earthquake in Japan in 2011. Discover sources for more information and visual representations of various catastrophic events.

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Disaster Early Warning Systems: Mitigating Impact and Loss

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  1. Natural disasters earthquake – Erdbeben early warning model – Frühwarnsystem seismic wave – Tsunami drought – Dürre jerky – ruckartig, abrupt

  2. One-hundred-yearflood in Dresden 2002

  3. 2011 → recordyear: • 380 billion US$ damage • 820 disasterswith relevant damage • 27000 death • 11.03.2011: earthquake in Japan → most expensive disasterof all time ( 210 billion US$)

  4. Sources • http://naturkatastrophen.die-erde.com/ • http://www.naturkatastrophen.mobi/ • http://www.munichre.com/de/media_relations/press_releases/2012/2012_01_04_press_release.aspx • Pictures: • http://www.naturkatastrophen.net/wp-content/themes/twentyten/images/bg/bg.jpg • http://www.schulen.duesseldorf.de/gs-josefkleesattelstr/schule/th5-2_01.jpg • http://images.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2011-12/fs-duerre-mexiko/01-RTR2UMNW.jpg • http://www.wochenblatt.de/storage/scl/import/subdir/eins/194159_m3w522h400q75v38429_xio-fcmsimage-20110811084857-006020-4e437b59a9747.photo_1312999511786-1-0.jpg • http://www.scinexx.de/redaktion/wissen_aktuell/bild3/s_hurrikang.jpg • http://www.luftrettung-hamburg.de/assets/images/Hochwasser_Dresden_2002__c__by_Brockhaus_AG.jpg • http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~lepenies/hochwasser/155-5547_IMG.JPG • http://geistdergesetze.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/erdbeben-in-japan-2011-1.png • http://www.buerglers.ch/2011/Erdbeben_Japan_Maerz/maedchen_weint.jpg • http://images.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2011-03/japan-erdbeben-kosten/japan-erdbeben-kosten-540x304.jpg

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