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A large Sunspot (930) has released the strongest X9-class solar flare in more than a year, according to http://spaceweather.com/ The flare was not Earth-directed so had little impact, but the sun’s rotation is bringing the Earth into ‘line of fire’, meaning that future eruptions from the same sunspot could cause potential disruption, especially to satellite communications.
Edinburgh, 19th January, 2007
A breakfast briefing for organisations based in Scotland has been jointly organised by Continuity Forum, the Scottish Continuity Group and the EPS, to offer a business continuity educational briefing, specific to the requirements of Scotland. The event will offer quality speakers on a number of topics, and will include a real-life, local case study of an event, including the lessons learned. The event will start at 8.30am for registration, with the presentations starting at 9.15 promptly. More information
Massachusetts has become the eighth state to be accredited by the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP). The program is a voluntary national accreditation process based on NFPA 1600, the standard on emergency management and business continuity. The other seven accredited states are Arizona, Florida, Illinois, North Dakota, Montana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
July 17-18, 2007, New York City.
IDG’s CXO Media, publisher of CIO and CSO magazines and events, has announced the launch of the above event. This will bring together senior technology and security executives to examine the strategic aspects of building resiliency, continuity, availability and recovery into their enterprise businesses. www.cio.com/bc_2007
FEMA daily SITREP
Death toll reaches 526 in Philippines after typhoon Durian
Rain brings relief to only half of Spain
Australia fears super fires as temperatures soar
NOAA tide stations upgraded to better detect tsunamis
NOAA has upgraded 33 tide stations in an effort to detect tsunamis quicker as part of the National Water Level Observation Network. Network tide stations normally equipped to record tidal data once every hour can now collect tidal data every six minutes, and can transmit that data through the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental satellites, or GOES. The upgraded tide gauges also collect one minute averaged tide data that are available to the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. This enhances the tsunami detection and confirmation capability of the centers, allowing forecasters to view real-time data of any station in the network.
Drought intensifies over eastern and southern Australia
Rainfall deficiencies have been gradually spreading over eastern and southern Australia during 2006, but the situation has taken a distinct turn for the worse from August, with a near total failure of the late-winter and spring rains. In the historical record dating from 1900, it was the driest August to November period averaged across SA, the second driest averaged over the Murray Darling Basin , the third driest across Australia and the fourth driest for Victoria . Rainfall deficits have also developed over parts of the tropics as evidence of a poor start to the northern wet season.
•Date: 6th December 2006• Region: Various
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