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This is the working space for THS' efforts to help those in need after the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and ongoing disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Affected Areas

The prefectures of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi have been worst affected. Wikipedia has a list of affected cities: List of cities

Issues:

  • Food
  • Water
  • Shelter
  • Communications
  • Sanitation
  • Economy
  • Energy

THS Efforts

Projects

Collections

Our list

The list: (feel free to send anything directly)

  • HackerSpaces - Please consider making/sending the following:
    • Mintiboost kits
    • Solar-powered NiCad/NiMH battery chargers
  • Rechargeable batteries (AAA, AA, C, D cells)
  • Ready-to-eat meals
  • Hand-held GPS receivers (preferably with Japan maps)
  • Mobile phone charging cables (USB-to-phone):
    • Android (micro USB?)
    • iPhone
    • Softbank / AU
    • DoCoMo

You can mail any of the above items directly to us:

Tokyo HackerSpace
5-11-11 Shirokanedai
Minato-ku, Tokyo-to 108-0071
JAPAN

There are addiitonal items that can be of use, but please you contact us first. You can join our google group, or contact via email any of the following members:

  • MRE: e_premeaux @ hotmail . com
  • Akiba: Akiba @ freaklabs . org

Extra things: (please contact us first, if you can provide anything)

  • Camping equipment (tents, sleeping bags)

Other collections in Tokyo

LDS humanitarian Services was collecting [[FamilyDailyHygeneKits]].

These kits were apparently distributed until April 2011.

Volunteering

Information Resources

Understanding Radiation

Current situation

Serious science

Perspective on dosage

DIY devices in the wild

Miscellaneous

Radiation 101

Government Guidelines

Iodine, Konbu, What?

Comedy? Hair-tearing idiocy? You decide:

What happens long-term?

What's going on with that reactor:

Worst case scenario?

Level 7? Maybe, but not the same as Chernobyl:

Radiation Monitoring

Geiger Counter Calibration

List of current models

Quake Resources

How to get warning of quakes (sort of)

Japan has an Emergency Earthquake Warning System (Kinkyuu Jishin Sokuhou) that uses arrival of P-Waves to warn of incoming earthquakes. It's not 100% reliable but it's far better than nothing.

How to satisfy your morbid curiosity about just how big that quake was

First, there are two ways of measuring quakes which you will hear about in Japan:

Resources listing measurements above for Japanese quakes (both will update fairly quickly after a big quake, though it sometimes takes a few minutes):

What is not helpful and harder to measure: how high you are off the ground and what type of building you are in can have a huge effect on what an earthquake feels like. Some buildings (usually modern earthquake resistant ones like skyscrapers) sway and rock, but others (e.g. older, solider concrete buildings) can shiver like diving boards.

What to do in a quake

Understanding Tsunami

(Needs Info)

Japan's Aid Organizations

Please add any organizations we should maintain contact with. Please keep it to organizations and contacts within the country. (Ex. the Red Cross is fine, if the contact info or site is the Japan local organization)

Disaster Planning Resources

Tohoku Disaster Articles

Learn from the Past

Post any links to past disaster post analysis, so that we can better understand what may be needed in Tohoku

Stay prepared

Mentions

Cross promotions of other sites and groups who have mentioned our efforts

2011_tohoku_earthquake_and_tsunami.txt · Last modified: 2017/09/26 14:50 by thsadmin