The role of GIS in Disaster Emergency Response (it is expected to be helpful for the disaster recovery of 512 earthquakes)

Some useful information for disaster emergency response.

GIS volunteers play a role in the disaster recovery of hurricane cardinate, Mississippi

Http://www.esrichina-bj.cn/news/esriworldnews/jufeng2.htm

China Earthquake Information Transferred from USGS

China

• 1290 09 27-chihli, China fatalities 100,000
• 1556 01 23-Shensi, China-M 8.0 fatalities 830,000
• 1917 07 30-Yunnan, China-M 7.5 fatalities 1,800
• 1918 02 13-nan 'ao, Guangdong, (Kwangtung), China-M 7.3 fatalities 1,000
• 1920 12 16-Haiyuan, Ningxia, China-M 7.8 fatalities 200,000
• 1923 03 24-near luhuo, Sichuan, China-M 7.3 fatalities 3,500
• 1925 03 16-Yunnan, China-M 7.1 fatalities 5,800
• 1927 05 22-Tsinghai, China-M 7.6 fatalities 40,900
• 1931 08 10-Xinjiang, China-M 8.0 fatalities 10,000
• 1932 12 25-Gansu, China-M 7.6 fatalities 275
• 1933 08 25-Sichuan, China-M 7.4 fatalities 9,300
• 1948 05 25-Sichuan, China-M 7.3 fatalities 800
• 1950 08 15-Assam-Tibet-M 8.6 fatalities 1,526
• 1966 03 07-Hebei, China-M 7.0 fatalities 1,000
• 1966 03 22-Hebei, China-M 6.9 fatalities 1,000
• 1969 07 25-Guangdong, China-M 5.9 fatalities 3,000
• 1970 01 04-Yunnan Province, China-M 7.5 fatalities 10,000
• 1974 05 10-China-M 6.8 fatalities 20,000
• 1975 02 04-Haicheng, China-M 7.0 fatalities 2,000
• 1976 07 27-Tangshan, China-M 7.5 fatalities 255,000
• 2002 06 28-priamurye-northeastern China border region-M 7.3
• 2002 12 25-Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region-M 5.7
• 2003 02 24-Southern Xinjiang, China-M 6.3 fatalities 261
• 2003 07 21-Yunnan, China-M 6.0 fatalities 16
• 2008 03 20-Xinjiang-Xizang border region-M 7.2
• 2008 05 12-eastern Sichuan, China-M 7.9 fatalities 21,500

512 Earthquake Information (transferred from USGS), maps contains Earthquake maps and detailed descriptions of earthquakes

Main contents of the 512 earthquake

Http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008ryan/

Earthquake description

Earthquake details

Magn.pdf	7.9
Date-time	Monday, May 12,200 8 at 06:28:01 UTC Monday, May 12,200 8 at 02:28:01 at epicenter Time of earthquake in other time zones
Location	30.986 ° N, 103.364 ° E
Depth	19 km (11.8 miles) set by location program
Region	Eastern Sichuan, China
Distances	75 km (45 miles) WNWChengdu, Sichuan, China 145 km (90 miles) WSWMianyang, Sichuan, China 345 km (215 miles) WNWChongqing, Chongqing, China 1545 km (960 miles) SWBeijing, Beijing, China
Location uncertainty	Horizontal +/-5 km (3.1 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	NST = 357, nph = 357, dmin = 592.1, rmss = 1.38 sec, Gp = 14 °, M-type = moment magnitude (MW), version = r
Source	USGS NEIC)
Event ID	Us2008ryan

 

Earthquake Zone Map Display

Special earthquake map of USGS 512