NEWS

 

 

From the United Nations

1999

Project Description: Emergency Assistance to Earthquake Disaster in Southern Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China

25/8/98

United Nations Helps Reduce Flood Casualties in China with Accurate Forecast

27/2/98

UN Workshops on Geomagnetic Technology to Forecast Earthquakes and Weather Disasters

31/7/97

United Nations Efforts Facilitate Early Warning of Several Destructive Earthquakes in China During April

29/1/97

First Conference on Integration of Public Administration and Science of Disasters Concludes in Beijing

 

 

 

Articles

19/6/99

Disaster Warning All in the Clouds, AP report, in South China Morning Post (HK)

29/9/98

A dialogue in EOS, Transaction, American Geophysical Union

A Misuse of Public Funds: U.N. Support for Geomagnetic Forecasting of Earthquakes and Meteorological Disasters, in EOS vol. 79 no.39



28/4/98

Preparedness Cuts Loss, in China Daily Science

9/5/97

Meeting the Challenge of Imminent Earthquake Prediction, in Chinese Science News

13/9/96

China's Campaign to Predict Quakes, in Science vol.273 no.5281

1996

Geoelectric Signals in China and the Earthquake Generation Process, Jean J. Chu [1], Xietai Gui [2], Jingan Dai [2], Chris Marone [3], Marc W. Speigelman [4], Leonardo Seeber [4], and John G. Armbruster [4], J. Geophys. Res., vol.101, 13,869-13,882, 1996.

 

 

 

Others

2001

Integrating public administration, science, and community action: a case of early-warning success in Qinglong County for the magnitude 7.8 Tangshan earthquake, Col, J.-M. & Chu, J. J., in Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management (pp. 581-616), A. Farazmand (Ed.). Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 2001.

1996

Guidelines on Capacity Building for Disaster Management (ST/TCD/SER.E/32), United Nations Department of Development Support and Management Service (UNDDSMS), New York, 1996.

26/7/96

Interview with Dr. Jeanne-Marie Col,on All Things Considered, National Public Radio



 


 

[1] Inst. of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
[2] Center for Analysis and Prediction, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing
[3] Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA
[4] Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY