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Emergency Communications Center

Real-time Disaster Situation Updates

Set a bookmark to this page for up to the minute views of world-wide disaster situations.

The Amateur Radio Emergency Services provides local and long distance communications services during local, regional, national and international emergencies. The following charts and sites provide information on current disaster conditions where Amateur Radio communication services may be in progress. Please note that these charts are loaded from the remote sites where they are generated and occassionally, may not be available.

Listen to Actual Ham Radio Emergency Communications
National Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) web site

Missing Children Report

(Requires JAVA capable browser)

Information provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Used with permission.

U.S. Energy Demand Information

High energy demand can lead to widespread power outages, as occurred on 10 August 1996 when the western half of the United States lost power due to electricity demand 45.9% above normal. Power outages can result in communications failures. Weekly energy demand forecasts are produced by the Consolidated Gas Company and presented by USA Today online newspaper as this weekly energy summary report. The rightmost column in the text report indicates the percent above or below normal.

Real-Time World-wide Major Seismic Events

Specific Maps are also available for: Europe, Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere and Alaska.
A report on Real-TimeWorld-wide Volcanic Activity is available.

The following map is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center and is used with permission.

A text report on current earthquake activity around the world is available.

Satellite Views

Link to WSI's World Satellite Composite Image

IntelliCast's Global Regional Satellite Images

Global Infrared Composite Satellite View

Color Composite Image provided by University of Wisconsin - Space Science and Engineering Center.
The UW's SSEC weather site is highly recommended by Ham Radio Online.
More satellite images are available at Purdue's WXP Satellite images.

Global Water Vapor Composite Satellite View

Water Vapor image provided by University of Wisconsin - Space Science and Engineering Center.

European and Asian Weather Satellite Images
Australian area Weather Satellite Images
Real-time Atlantic, Pacific maps; composite satellite/surface map of U.S.

Real-Time Volcano Watch - from Space

Visit the Volcano Watch page at the University of Wisconsin - Space Science and Engineering Center.

Internet Resources to World-Wide Disasters


The Disaster Center- Lots of resources on disaster situations
American Red Cross Disaster Services
Disaster Relief: Worldwide disaster aid and Information
The Internet Disaster Information Network
The North American Center For Emergency Communications Inc.
VITA's Excellent Disaster Situations

The EPICENTER Emergency Prepardness Information Center, Seattle, WA provides recent reports and links on disaster situations worldwide.

Listen to Actual Ham Radio Emergency Communications

Mexico City Earthquake, 1985

Hear the Original Audio Files in MP3 format by visiting the Loma Prieta Earthquake web page of N6OIM

Edited selections available here in RealAudio download format: RealAudio download format, 292 kbytes, 2 mins, 29 secs of audio
Takes about 3 min 30 secs to download at 24,000 bps

Excerpts from Loma Prieta Earthquake/San Francisco Bay area, 1989

RealAudio download format, 343 kbytes, 5 mins, 48 secs of audio
Takes about 5 minutes to download at 24,000 bps

You need Version 3.0 or newer of the RealAudio player for PC or Macintosh, available for download at RealAudio. The RealAudio files available here are downloadable files, not real time streamable RealAudio. You need to download the files and then play them using the RealAudio player.

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