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Sentinel Asia is a voluntary initiative led by the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) and was established in 2005 as collaboration among space agencies and disaster management agencies under the APRSAF initiative. It supports disaster management efforts in the Asia-Pacific region through the provision of space-based information and imagery derived from earth observation satellites. The aim is to mitigate and prevent damage caused by natural disasters such as ty

A massive 7.5 magnitude earthquake occurred on 26 February 2018 at 3:44 am caused extensive damages to buildings, public lifeline services and triggered many landslides in various location in Hela and Southern Highlands Provinces. The earthquake epicentre was at 6.2 degree south and 142.7 degree east. It is approximately 30 km south of Tari and 40 km north-west of Lake Kutubu. The earthquake was generated as a result of movement of the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt, which runs

The National Disaster Centre urgently need adequate funding support from government to carry out its duties in responding to the earthquake disaster in Hela and Southern Highlands Province. Officers from the Centre were deployed to Hela and Southern Highlands to conduct an initial rapid assessment and to help the respective provincial disaster offices to establish and active its emergency operation centre (EoC). Accordingly, the officers provided technical support on how to c