Tag: Earthquake

  • Nation & World

    ‘Real resolve’ in Haiti, Farmer says

    Despite the repeated traumas visiting Haiti this summer, HMS Professor Paul Farmer said he found reason for hope in the earthquake zone.

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    Examining aftershocks with AI

    Sparked by a suggestion from researchers at Google, Harvard scientists are using artificial intelligence technology to analyze a database of earthquakes from around the world in an effort to predict where aftershocks might occur. Using deep-learning algorithms, they developed a system that, while still imprecise, was able to forecast aftershocks significantly better than random assignment.

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    Learning to find ‘quiet’ earthquakes

    Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Marine Denolle is one of several co-authors of a study that used computer-learning algorithms to identify small earthquakes buried in seismic noise.

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    Karisma dances for charity

    A midmonth charity arts showcase called Karisma has raised $20,000, which will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Nepali hurricane relief efforts according to Karisma president and founding director Meenakshi Krishna ’17.

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    ‘Destruction across the city’

    Lara Phillips, a Harvard Medical School instructor in emergency medicine, was in Nepal during the April 25 earthquake that devastated Kathmandu and other areas. She and colleagues have traveled from the high-mountain clinic where they worked to offer assistance.

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    ‘I felt as if I was on a boat at sea’

    Renee Salas, a Wilderness Medicine Fellow from Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School instructor in emergency medicine, was working at a remote clinic near the Mount Everest Base Camp when Saturday’s earthquake struck Nepal. She shared her experience with the Gazette.

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    After Nepal quake, Harvard responds

    With Nepal struggling to grasp the enormous calamity caused by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck north of Kathmandu Saturday, Harvard is mobilizing to help with technical and medical assistance and reaching out to faculty, staff, and students visiting the region.

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    Brick by brick

    Helping part of coastal Chile to recover completely and prosper following the deadly 2010 earthquake and tsunami is the guiding ethos of Recupera Chile, an initiative based at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies that involves half a dozen Harvard Schools.

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    With radiation, worries about food

    Harvard anthropology doctoral student Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna is living in Japan to study food safety and how people make decisions to keep their families safe following the nuclear meltdown.

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    Japan’s mistakes

    Assurances of the safety of Japan’s nuclear industry lulled the government and the public into a false sense of security that was shattered a year ago when a massive earthquake and tsunami rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the head of a panel that reviewed the disaster told a Harvard audience March 26.

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    The record of Japanese disaster

    Harvard experts were among the lead organizers of a major effort to construct a multimedia archive of last year’s devastating earthquake and aftermath in Japan. The site goes live this week.

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    In praise of ordinary people

    Officials should not forget the important role that ordinary citizens play in the critical hours after a disaster, authorities on disaster response told the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health, during a discussion of how that has changed since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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    Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies supports student research and travel in Japan

    Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RI) promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.

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    Harvard Foundation sends 1,000 blankets to Japan

    The Harvard Foundation recently sent more than 1,000 new wool blankets and other relief items to the victims of the catastrophic March earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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    Tapping the ‘information fire hose’

    Management of information flow and usage needs to be revamped to take advantage of two new information “fire hoses” enabled by modern technology: that which is conveyed from affected populations via social media and mobile technology, and information and analysis provided from a network of volunteers that has arisen around the world.

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    Lessons of the Haiti quake

    Leaders of government, military, and nongovernmental organizations gathered at the Faculty Club and Loeb House to take a look back at the response to last year’s Haiti earthquake and seek lessons that can be applied to future disasters.

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    ‘Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward’

    The disaster created when an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis struck Japan may be entering a new stage as the effects start to ripple through the country’s economy, politics, and society, according to a panel of Harvard analysts and Japanese officials.

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    The road to Chile, Brazil

    On her South American trip, Harvard President Drew Faust meets with government and academic leaders, reconnects with Harvard alumni, and views the tangible benefits of the University’s research.

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    Harvard’s efforts to help Japan

    The University responds to the tragedy that struck Japan in myriad ways — with a benefit concert, discussions by experts, and a web portal to ease information flow.

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    Spotlight on Harvard in Chile

    President Drew Faust is traveling this week to highlight Harvard’s engagement with Latin America. In Chile, she is meeting with government and academic leaders and getting a firsthand look at the tangible benefits of Harvard research.

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    Harvard rushes to aid Japan

    The University responds to the tragedy that struck Japan last week in myriad ways — with a benefit concert, discussions by experts, and a web portal to ease information flow.

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    Three crises for Japan

    Addressing a forum on Japan’s crises, Harvard analysts describe how public trust in relief efforts, logistical obstacles to aid, and foreign sensitivity to Japanese culture are all keys to an effective disaster response.

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    A quake data clearinghouse

    Within hours of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis had launched a web-based data clearinghouse, the Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal, to provide a site where disaster responders can find needed information.

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  • Nation & World

    Harvard lends a hand to Chile

    The Harvard community has reached out to help Chile recover from last year’s earthquake, with efforts ranging from students working on reconstruction during winter break to an upcoming planning meeting involving Harvard faculty members and President Drew Faust.

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    Progress in Haiti ‘painfully slow’

    A year after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Harvard faculty members reflect on work done there and the difficult job that remains.

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    Faust calls global health one of her main priorities

    Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today (May 18) announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision…

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    What Haiti needs … now

    Former Haiti Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis said shelter, jobs, and education are the top priorities in the earthquake-ravaged nation.

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    ‘I thought a bomb went off’

    As twilight fell over Port-au-Prince that first terrible night after Haiti’s January earthquake, Louise Ivers watched a strange cloud of dust settle over the city. Stirred by buildings collapsing as the late afternoon quake struck, the cloud was pierced only by sound, a rising chorus of screams from across the capital as the toll became…

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    Portals into Haiti, Chile

    Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis created Web clearinghouses to aid information flow in response to Haiti’s and Chile’s earthquakes.

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    Transfer ‘ensemble,’ Port-au-Prince

    Transporting patients from one location to another in post-quake Haiti can be a complicated task; often involving barriers of logistics, distance, and language. Sometimes the greatest challenge is a ticking clock.

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