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

Layout and Original Concept Dynamic website Friendly Interface Easy Navigation Internet Compatibility Dynamic website: EMDAT is characterized by continuous change and activities. Thus EM- DAT should be able to be a motion-website. It should combine tools like Flash and information visualization capable of being understood for the user. One picture's worth a thousand words. Friendly interface: The goal is “Take the shortest way to get information”. Any person (research, student, teacher , etc.) should get required information with only a few clicks. Easy navigation: Is easier to navigate with a GPS! [remember about Office 2003/XP included a pet or Merlin the wizard to help users to find how to do something) EMDAT doesn't include a friendly pet to help you to find the information but we've assured a human readable menu and an understandable language. Internet compatibility: Today, you'll able to find hundreds of thousands websites with less of a 20% of compatibility with the Internet Standards. We are sure that EM-DAT is working in 99,98% with the most important browsers: Firefox (Mozilla Foundation), Internet Explorer (Microsoft), Safari (Apple), Opera (Opera Software ASA), Chrome (Google), Nautilus (Linux environment), etc. Text search engine: Sometimes is useful find information in the style of Google, Yahoo, Ask or AOL, that mean, Just by entering a word or a group of word in a “search field”. Text Search Engine

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Website What’s new? Welcome Access Database Supported by 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