When the word natural disasters strike in mind what comes first!!! Tsunami, Earthquakes, Volcano, Flood, etc. These disasters are seen earlier by many throughout the world. These natural calamities cannot be avoided or prevented?
When mother nature loses her balance then these type of disasters happen.
In India, last month , that is June 2013, at Uttarakhand, people experienced flood that took away thousands of life who had gone to take the blessings of the Lord.
Which part of the world has not seen disasters? Be it Asia, America, Japan, Tokyo, India, Pakistan, Africa, etc have gone through the pain.
Now you must be thinking what is the relation of mobile apps and natural disasters? Well, the answer is in the question itself. If someone informs you that today night there will be lights off due to some electrical work, then what your actions will be. To prepare for the situation and if possible make some arrangements for the lights when they are off. Ofcourse, there will be no dangerous situation here. But similar situation alerts can be made possible via mobile apps.
Using mobiles, one can get alerts or made alerts. You can get the intimations regarding where, what , when etc. The preventive measures will begin and you will think of some safe place where there is no disaster to happen.
I have found some important mobile apps that will deal with all these situations.
Listed below are the mobile apps that will take care of you:
This app is from iTunes. This app alerts you whenever situations like floods, volcano, etc will occur and help you to instantly share your friends on social media network websites to help others leave the place and occupy other safe one.
Basic Features that make it best are :
Basic Features include:
- An Interactive map
- You can sort events by severity / popularity / credibility
- Report an event and submit a photo
- Share events by email, or post links to Facebook and Twitter
- Save alerts to your “watch” list for quick viewing
- Adjust text size
- Provide feedback regarding credibility of the post to prevent fraudulent posts
- Adjust settings to display distance in kilometers or miles
- An Interactive map
- You can sort events by severity / popularity / credibility
- Report an event and submit a photo
- Share events by email, or post links to Facebook and Twitter
- Save alerts to your “watch” list for quick viewing
- Adjust text size
- Provide feedback regarding credibility of the post to prevent fraudulent posts
- Adjust settings to display distance in kilometers or miles
You can get this app from iTunes.
This app is from Google play. The full form of NOAH is Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards. It is built by the Philippines' Department of Science and Technology. This app is for Android. Its mission is to undertake disaster science research and development,
advance the use of cutting edge technologies and recommend innovative
information services in government's disaster prevention and mitigation
efforts.
There are many features of this app.
-Help
-Gmail
-Map View
-News
-Info
-Useful links and contents
-Sharing facility via Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc
Again an interesting app from Google play built for Android. This app provides the service related to flood monitoring, flood mapping service, help , send flood reports to NOAH.
Built for the people of Thailand, this app will send alerts in the times of flood disasters. Provides information about rainfall and weather. It presents information in the form of charts and graphs in both the languages English and Thai.
An app from iTunes, which takes the charge of Tsunami related information. It allows you to make fast emergency calls. Tsunami came in the year 2004 and again showed its effects in 2011. This app gives warnings related to tsunamis and earthquakes which are presented from NOAA , i.e National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
If "Technology" is taking active steps to prevent these situations then it is most welcome. Get these apps and help others at the times.
But sometimes it is not the duty of mankind to protect our earth? We always think of protecting ourselves.
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