Disaster Alert

The Description of Disaster Alert

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Disaster Alert is a free and publicly accessible mobile application designed to equip the global community with vital hazard alerts and information, ensuring safety anywhere in the world. Built upon the robust PDC’s DisasterAWARE® platform, Disaster Alert™ delivers near real-time updates on 18 distinct types of natural hazards as they unfold across the globe.

With Disaster Alert, users can customize early warning notifications, access estimated impact reports, and explore visualized modeled hazard data. The app's continuous stream of fresh information is automatically sourced from the most reliable, scientifically verified sources. In instances where no official source is available, alerts are manually updated by the Pacific Disaster Center, minimizing the time lapse between an event and the availability of information within the system.

Hazard updates provided by Disaster Alert include only active hazards. “Active Hazards” are defined as recent incidents that have been designated by PDC as potentially hazardous to people, property, or assets.

INCLUDED HAZARD TYPES:

*Automatically processed in near real time: Hurricanes (tropical cyclones / typhoons), earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, wildfires, U.S. tornadoes and winter storms.

*Manually Processed: Marine hazards, storms, droughts, and manmade incidents. High surf advisories, high winds, and flash floods are available for Hawaii only.

NEW IN VERSION 7.5.4:

*Default theme: The PDC theme has been applied as the default theme in Disaster Alert. The PDC theme integrates DisasterAWARE branding, colors, and iconography. Different themes may be applied from the User Preferences menu.

*Multi-language login and registration: Disaster Alert users will be able to login and register in a variety of supported languages other than English. There is a dropdown selector at the top of the form that allows the user to change the language option.

*Onboarding: We have introduced a new first-time user app setup feature Disaster Alert to allow customization of the alert location and hazard severity. This screen is displayed for all users upon update from prior version(s) to 7.5.4 as well as new installations. Users will be given the option to sign op, login, or skip directly to Disaster Alert as a guest without an account. Alert preferences may only be customized by registered users.

*User registration email: Disaster Alert now supports additional registration email formats for plusaddressed (aka sub-addressed) email formats for new user registration forms.

OTHER KEY FEATURES:

*Customizable alerts based on your geographic area of interest and hazard severity
*When the map tip is activated by selecting a hazard on the map, users can get estimated impact information by choosing the "More Info" link and viewing Hazard Brief.
*Interactive map interface displays 18 different types of active hazards
*Customizable background maps
*Map layers with overlays for population densities, global cloud coverage, and more.