From: billd@informix.com (William Daul)
Newsgroups: ca.earthquakes
Subject: Electronic Disaster Information
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:36:31 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: billd@cheetah

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               New Access to NCEER's Information Service

The National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER) Information
Service is now accessible via electronic mail and welcomes electronic
correspondence from all users interested in its services. Besides providing
individual reference requests via computer, the information service can now
download the results of on-line searches performed on NCEER's QUAKELINE data
base and then forward the information via e-mail, thereby making the material
available quickly in a computer-readable format. The NCEER Information
Service's new e-mail address is: NERNCEER@UBVMS.BITNET.

In addition, QUAKELINE is now publicly available on the BRS Information
Technologies data base system. By becoming a publicly available data base, it
is now possible for QUAKELINE to reach a wide audience of potential users. To
gain further information about the use of QUAKELINE, contact Carol A. Kizis,
QUAKELINE Coordinator, NCEER Information Service, Science and Engineering
Library, 342 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, (716) 636-3377; fax: (716)
636-3379.

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                    New NOAA Number Too

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has established a
central telephone number for information on NOAA's products and services. The
NOAA Information Service (NIS) connects the caller with an operator who
accesses a computerized data base covering over 600 NOAA products and services
dealing with the atmosphere, oceans, navigation, fisheries, marine mammals,
and other topics. Calls cost $.50 for the first minute and $.35 for each
additional minute. The number is (900) 896-7777. For Washington, D.C.
residents, it is (202) 606-4380.

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                        A Message about UNIENET

             [Received the following from UNDRO-Geneva:]

UNIENET: TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ON THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY
NETWORK (UNIENET) BY EMAIL, PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH DROCEDP2@UNICC.

[Note: The UNIENET folks also provided the Hazards Center with an extensive
electronic document on the UNIENET system. If you have trouble reaching Geneva
and would like to see a "System Description" for UNIENET, send a message to
hazards@vaxf.colorado.edu, and we will send you the documentation. Here is the
abbreviated opening paragraph (there is *much* more on both how to use UNIENET
and what it contains):]

UNIENET is a disaster-specific electronic information network providing the
international disaster management community with access to disaster-related 
information . . . Connection to UNIENET can be made either from a computer
terminal linked to the International Computing Centre (ICC) in Geneva,
Switzerland, or from any microcomputer equipped with a modem and
communications software. Access to UNIENET can be provided to any organization
or individual involved with disaster management. Computer access and
telecommunications costs for this service are at the user's expense.
 
 The facilities of the system include:
 1.  Electronic Mail for communicating among disaster-management
     organizations
 2.  Bulletin Boards of current disaster emergency situations,
     international disaster management conferences, meetings, and
     events, training materials, etc.
 3.  Sitreps (Situation Reports)
 4.  Disaster Emergency Contacts
 5.  Databases containing Press Releases, descriptions of NGO's
     dealing with disasters, bibliographies, etc., and the Training
     Centres Forthcoming Activities.
 6.  Access to other United Nations Networks
 7.  Network Users

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