The gath­er­ing of infor­ma­tion by radio ama­teurs that fol­lowed the 8.3‑magnitude earth­quake on Wednes­day off Chile’s cen­tral coast, and com­mu­ni­ty dis­as­ter drills, have help keep the loss of life at a minimum.
From ONEMI — Ofic­i­na Nacional de Emer­gen­cia del …

A demon­stra­tion of the modes and equip­ment avail­able to Ama­teur Radio in a dis­as­ter for emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions, will be shown at the World Radio­com­mu­ni­ca­tions Con­fer­ence in Gene­va in November.
The trail­er-moun­t­ed dis­plays of equip­ment with voice, text and image modes, …

The Mal­ta Ama­teur Radio League (MARL) have com­plet­ed their involve­ment in a Euro­pean Union sup­port­ed Earth­quake sim­u­la­tion exercise.
Around 300 par­tic­i­pants sim­u­lat­ed the sce­nario in which Mal­ta was hit by a 7.6 mag­ni­tude earth­quake in the cen­tral Mediterranean …

Radio Ama­teurs have been active in respond­ing to the con­se­quences of Trop­i­cal Storm Erika.
The Radio Club of Domini­ca were active on 7.065MHz, 3.780MHz and local repeaters work­ing with their Nation­al Emer­gency Oper­a­tions Cen­tre, Civ­il Defence and the Domini­can Red Cross …

The 10^th anniver­sary of Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na, one of the worst of its type in US his­to­ry, had Jack­son Coun­ty in Mis­souri vis­it­ed where the Ama­teur Radio emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions role was praised. 

Sen­a­tor Roger Wick­er per­son­al­ly thanked radio ama­teurs for …