Though, all kinds of disaster require more or less similar skill-sets and rescue-efforts at least a few days after the event, it is important to understand various kinds of disasters. Depending upon the actual nature of disaster, the immediate reaction needs to be different.
Also, the first few moments of disasters are distinctly different for each kind of disasters. Thus, understanding of each kind of disaster might also help in identifying the onset of a disastrous event, so that a trained person can undertake some key actions, during the initial few moments. This could have a major impact on the final outcome in terms of amount of final loss.
Natural
These are primarily natural events. It is possible that certain human activities could maybe aid in some of these events, but, by and large, these are mostly natural events. Earthquakes Volcano Floods Tornadoes, Typhoons, Cyclones
Manmade
These are mostly caused due to certain human activities. The disasters themselves could be unintentional, but, are caused due to some intentional activity. Most of these (barring coordinated terrorist activities) are due to certain accidents – which could have been prevented – if sufficient precautionary measures were put in place.
Mobile App :: SACHET [For Weather Forecasting…]
SACHET, pan-India based mobile application implemented by NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority), and is part of CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) project implemented in India. The application acts as alert dissemination media for the common people before, during & after any disaster. It disseminates area-specific alerts to Indian Citizens from various Alert Generating Agencies and all 36 states/UTs Disaster Management Authorities.
The app provides simple interface to view disaster early warnings and alerts across the entire country. It will notify the different disaster alerts to Indian citizens and provide disaster alert specific Do’s and Don’ts with read-out loud feature to cater to especially abled.
People have been requested to download the ‘Sachet App’ from Google Play/ Apple App Store.
The links for national Disaster Alert Mobile App are: