Assignment

Identify one failure common related to communications, throughout most of the listed disasters. Please see list below

Identify one bit of data that you would never want shared about yourself during a disaster, and one bit that you would always want shared. (ex. location, health status, medications, insurance). Explain why to both.

Explore technology standards as they relate to information gathering, analysis, storage and retrieval.

Learn from the past by analyzing historical disasters for lessons to mitigate future disaster response failures.

Search the internet to find the following disasters and identify the technical and communication failures that caused each disaster and/or hampered the relief efforts:

Seveso, Italy disaster (1976)

Bhopal, India disaster (1984)

Chernobyl, Ukraine disaster (1986)

Loma Prieta, CA earthquake (1989)

Ýzmit, Turkey earthquake (1999)

Hurricane Katrina (2005).