Apps for an emergency

Summary: You never know when disaster may strike - so here are some top apps that prove useful.

By Charlie Osborne for iGeneration | September 8, 2012 -- 19:52 GMT (12:52 PDT)

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Name: Disaster Alert

Developer: Pacific Disaster Center

Compatibility: iOS | Android

The disaster alert application provides a list and interactive map of natural disasters happening across the globe.

You can view disaster updates via an aerial or road map. Each 'disaster' includes a hazard warning, time and date markers and updates every thirty minutes.

The marked disasters include hurricanes, drought, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis.

Topic: Apps

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Windows Phone 8 does have some catching up to do...

I'd definitely like to see some of these for my Windows 8 phone.

krisoccer

10 September, 2012 18:53

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Silly.

Buuuuut in a full on disaster wouldn't cell signals be null and void?

rockinwiththekwest

10 September, 2012 20:09

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RE rockinwiththekwest

Actually no, in the Haiti disaster by report cellphones and wifi were pretty much the only form of communications. While landlines were torn apart the wifi network apparently kept on going and this permitted communications during the disaster.

alanradau@...

11 September, 2012 03:55

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Might work if the tech's still around...

...but like someone else pointed out, usually in a disaster cell signals get disrupted. Might not have happened in Haiti, but that doesn't mean it'll never happen.

For the record, I was in Cuddalore, in southern India, during the Thane cyclone of 2011 (look it up) and we were stuck for 3 days with no electricity or cell phones.
In fact the only things that *did* work were good ol' fashioned land phones.

TruthSeekr99

11 September, 2012 04:33

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