On December 26 2004, a huge magnitude 9.2 Mw earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia beneath the Indian Ocean. This undesea meagthrust earthquake became later known as the Sumatra-Andaman earthqauke. The earthquake generated a tsunami with waves reaching up to 30m (100ft) in height. At the time warning buoys were not in opeation in this part of the world and while the earthquake was devastating, the tsunami wave that followed was largely unwarned, especially for those living in nearby…
Something I have been working on: A comic strip on tornado safety for children and families. We used this as part of a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant collaboration where we are returning VORTEX-USA research back to the community. Last week with 150 first grade students!
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I'm adding here in the right order…
Each year, more than 1,000 tornadoes affect communities across the United States. With an average of 44,000 households impacted and approximately two to three individuals per household, the Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates 111,000 people are exposed to tornadoes each year.
Yet very little is known about how individuals receive, interpret and respond to information that includes…
Okay here are the 'Silly Timmy' Comic strips featuring a 'Fairy Godmother' that rescue him from his scrapes...shame we don't all have one of these!
All the comics were created by me (Justin Sharpe) on an iPad using an App called Toon ToolKit (…
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I wanted to show my PhD research findings in an easily digestible and accessible manner, so I created this infographic:
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A brilliant song about the two sides nature of floods - at which point should they leave and what to do with the animals? While I love Johnny Cash, this is a great song to *think* about flooding and how what seems a small amount can soon become…
It has been a while but my #disaster #comic book aimed at young children is available for free on the iBook store.
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This animation was developed during the EU FP7 project emBRACE (Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe) www.embrace-eu.org
Dr Justin Sharpe speaks at the Cascade-net 6 seminar in June 2019 about how to better engage knowledge brokers in community's that are pereived to be 'hard-to-reach'
Working together to help you be prepared and resilient to disasters via learning and education anywhere. Learning matters in DRR education.
We provide resources such as curriculum, for teachers, ways to communicate risks through the Silly Timmy…
We provide resources such as curriculum, for teachers, ways to communicate risks through the Silly Timmy…
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We're taking you inside the weather like you've never seen it before. Jim Cantore battles the elements as a storm hits The Weather Channel. An interesting way to show what the Enhanced Fujita scale is and what sort of meteorological conditions…
What do you do when you're in a car and find yourself on a collision course with a tornado? Meteorologist Alex Wilson uses Immersive Mixed Reality to demonstrate what you should and shouldn't do.
