We are very happy to launch our website . We hope that this will help us in communicating and providing latest updates about our work, as well as in generating interest of a larger audience with news updates, focused blog writing, and other interesting stuff.
All news items and blogs are carefully selected and meticulously written. The blogs are also translated in two local languages - Hindi and Gujarati. We utilize blogger.com for the open source blog interface.
We have also tried to include a special feature- the ‘Tools Window’. This sits on the website homepage, and provides a space where we can put exclusive links to special digital environments. Presently, it has a few tools, for instance, the first tool, known as ‘Hazard Informer’ helps a lay-person understand how Earthquake Hazard - in more simple terms - ground shakiness, is distributed over the planet. The second tool is the ‘Seismic Risk estimation tool’, which is a more comprehensive tool that estimates the earthquake risk to a facility. The tool is also of use in estimating the potential building damage, life and other potential losses, and further actions which one needs to take up to mitigate these.
We expect the tool count to grow as we go along. Work is underway on some more tools and your comments and suggestions on these are eagerly looked forward to. For example- the Facility Finder we have created for the India School safety portal is a useful resource tool for schools to find proximal external resources which can come in handy during emergencies.
Please contact us if you would like more information on the development of these and such similar tools.
We would like to thank Sumeet for his hard work and patience in uploading the website using the open source interface Joomla.
We hope that you will enjoy surfing our website.
