NATDIS Newswatch, natural disasters now have their permanent news monitoring tool
Earthquake in Haiti in 2010, tsunami in Japan in 2011, hurricane Sandy, recurrent floods... All these events remind us that each day several natural disasters occur somewhere in the world. In addition to frequency, natural disasters have become a major issue for societies and for businesses because of the number of lives lost (125 000 deaths per year*) and also because of economic reasons. (The average annual cost of disasters is $102 billion / year**).
Since last October, there is a new source of information for permanent monitoring of all damaging events occurring every day in the world: The NATural DISasters News which supplies a permanent watch of international news about natural disasters events but also on natural hazard mitigation and climate changes topics.
More than a simple website, NATural DISasters News is also a powerful personal information tool. Indeed, information relating to natural disasters is often very hard to find (or quite simply unavailable) and rarely updated in real time. In order to remedy this lack of information, we developed NATDIS Newswatch, an exclusive free service offering permanent monitoring of natural disasters worldwide.
Once a user subscribes to the service he receives automatically by mail all the articles about new natural disaster events or alerts as soon as they are published on the website. Users can also receive updates for an event or an alert. The email contents :
• Type of disaster
• Date of occurence
• Country
• State / Province
• Location
• Event gravity
• Description of the event
Natural disasters news also provides a customized professional version of this service.The principle is simple: after having first set the criteria of interest (type of risk, severity of the event, geographical area etc.), NATDIS Newswatch users are automatically notified if an event or alert matching the set criteria occured or has been updated. So, for example, if you are only interested in news concerning floods and earthquakes in Asia resulting in more than 10 victims, you will only receive articles that specifically meet those parameters.
NATDIS Newswatch customized version service is available under different formats:
• Email
• RSS Feeds under different format : Atom/ RSS, Geo RSS and CAP (Common Alert Protocol)
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Naturaldisastersnews is a website created by Ubyrisk Consultants, a French independent consulting firm specialized in the study and management of natural hazards.
Our company also manages the website CATNAT.net since 2001 (first French language website dedicated to natural disasters news). Through its websites, our company proposes exclusives services of permanent and personalized newswatch about natural disasters.
Our company is also an engineering consulting firm which proposes a large number of services in the field of the natural hazards: stakes and vulnerability studies, spatial analysis dedicated to the natural risks using GIS, professional training, advice and expertises relative to the natural risks and to their management, supply and processing of statistical data.
Ubyrisk Consultants used to work for multinational companies (Carrefour, Bouygues, Swiss Re, Marsh, Partner Re, Odyssey Re…), scientific institutions (Meteo France, French and european universities) and important international NGO's (such as Red Cross...).
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*Source : Database BD CATNAT from Ubyrisk Consultants for the 2001-2010 period
**Source : Munich Re for the 2001-2011 period