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Most recent Emergencies:

Start date
2010 Chile Earthquake And Pacific Tsunami 245525527 February 2010
Haiti earthquake of January 2010 245520912 January 2010


Welcome to CrisisWiki!

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This wiki is being developed in response to the Haiti earthquake and the Chile quake/Pacific tsunami by a group of volunteers from around the world. The goal of the wiki is to create a Yellow Pages of resources regarding the earthquake - charities involved in relief efforts, news sources, etc. An example of how we've done this in the past can be seen at HurricaneWiki.org. What sets CrisisWiki apart from other disaster wikis is that we intend to design the wiki so it can accommodate resources related to future disasters, as well as aggregate local, state, national and international emergency preparedness resources before a disaster strikes. For more information on CrisisWiki, please see our project wiki or contact Andy Carvin at acarvin AT npr dot org or @acarvin on Twitter.

What kind of resources are we looking for?

  • Getting help after an emergency. This includes getting food, water or medical attention.
  • Giving help before or after an emergency. What organizations are there in your community that accept donations to help in the event of an emergency.
  • Preparing for an emergency that is about to affect your city. This might include evacuation routes or help weather proofing your home.

How can you help?

  1. Let people know what city, state or country you plan to research by editing our Research Assignments page.
  2. Add a city, state or country by clicking on the continent it resides in and following the directions on each page: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, South America. Places in urgent need of resource listings due to 2/27 quake/tsunami: Chile, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, Japan, all the Pacific islands of Australasia
  3. Add resources for a city:
    • Browse to your city through the search or through the browse list below. If it doesn't exist, follow the above directions.
    • Please enter the resources on the page that best represents their geographic reach. Local evacuation routes would be entered on the page for your city, for example. Be sure to include identifying information in the title of your resource so that users can tell the difference between shelters in different cities. You can see the Wikipedia style guide for more information on titling.
    • Do a search to see if the resource already exists. If it does, modify it to add the areas that it covers.
    • Pick the resource sub-types that match the resource you are adding. If you are adding a resource that provides a wide range of services, please select only "General Aid" or pick 1-2 sub-types to place the resource under.

Adding Resource Sub-types

Edit the Resource Sub Type page and add an allows value entry to the list.

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Resources

Resource sample: Red Cross of the Republic of China, UCSF Medical Center Volunteer, Massachusetts Suicide Hotline, Citizen Corps: Community Emergency Response Team - TN, List of Resources providing aid to Haite … further results


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