Bopha crisis information saves lives

A Google live map of typhoon Bopha pools information from government and social media sources, while the UN praises the Philippines early warning system in reducing disaster risk.

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&amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4" /&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4" /&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4" /&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4" /&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4" /&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4" /&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5" /&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5" /&amp;amp;gt; 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&amp;amp;lt;p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"&amp;amp;gt;The death toll has reached almost 300, with at least 151 people dying in the worst-hit province of Compostela Valley.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;"&amp;amp;gt;The typhoon that slammed into the southern island of Mindanao Tuesday while even more were reported missing, but UNISDR said the toll could have been much worse.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;img src="/news/sites/sbs.com.au.news/files/images/b/o/bopha-crisis-information-saves-lives_embedded_0.jpg" /&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;a class="account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav" href="<a href="https://twitter.com/BeachBumPhotos" target="_blank" link-data="{"link_rte.link_text":"https://twitter.com/BeachBumPhotos","link_rte.link":{"link.target":"NEW","link.attributes":[],"external_link.url":"https://twitter.com/BeachBumPhotos","_id":"00000186-25d6-d585-abd6-7ff694160000","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"00000186-25d6-d585-abd6-7ff694160001","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">https://twitter.com/BeachBumPhotos</a>" data-user-id="61310396"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span class="username js-action-profile-name"&amp;amp;gt;Photo credit: @&amp;amp;lt;b&amp;amp;gt;BeachBumPhotos&amp;amp;lt;/b&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"&amp;amp;gt;"This time last year, over 1,400 people died on Mindanao in a similar event, but this time big improvements in the early warning systems have saved many lives," said Jerry Velazquez, who heads the agency's Asia office.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"&amp;amp;gt;About 178,000 people remained huddled in evacuation centres, mostly crowded schoolhouses, gyms and other government buildings, officials said.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"&amp;amp;gt;In a statement, Velazquez singled out new automated rainfall and flood predictions systems, which he said had greatly improved forecasting and made it possible to more quickly alert people at risk.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"&amp;amp;gt; <brightspot-cms-external-content data-state="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0PTU6UpT8M&amp" target="_blank" link-data="{"link_rte.link_text":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0PTU6UpT8M&amp","link_rte.link":{"link.target":"NEW","link.attributes":[],"external_link.url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0PTU6UpT8M&amp","_id":"00000186-25d6-d585-abd6-7ff694170000","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"00000186-25d6-d585-abd6-7ff694170001","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0PTU6UpT8M&amp</a>;quot;,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;0000017e-92cf-dbb0-ab7e-93cfcddf0000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;035d81d3-5be2-3ed2-bc8a-6da208e0d9e2&quot;}">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0PTU6UpT8M</brightspot-cms-external-content> &amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;"&amp;amp;gt;The systems are part of the government's Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards) introduced earlier this year.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"&amp;amp;gt;The project, which includes alerts through television and the Internet, "has enabled central government agencies, local governments and citizens to prepare and act before intense weather arrives," Velazquez said.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;p style="text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;"&amp;amp;gt;That "is vitally important" in a country hit by around 20 typhoons each year, he said, predicting that when the NOAH project is fully rolled out by the end of next year "we should see a significant drop in the numbers of lives lost to disasters in the Philippines."&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt; 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&amp;amp;lt;p style="text-autospace:none"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"&amp;amp;gt;"About 0.8 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) is lost each year to disasters and this takes an unacceptably high toll on the country's development and efforts at poverty reduction," Velazquez said.&amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;</span>

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Published 6 December 2012 10:34am

Updated 24 February 2015 5:10pm

By SBS Staff

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Bopha crisis information saves lives

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