Scenario: Earthquake search
Scenario: A major earthquake affecting an urban area. An estimated 70% of all houses are demolished and thousands of people missing. 10 portable HEPKIE systems (10 Base Units and 50 hand-held Search Units) are on the spot after 12 h. The SAR team leader has divided the worst-hit area into search grid before arrival. The [...]
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ResQU AB brings a completely new tool to search for missing persons or people in emergency situations, the mobile phone locating system. Hepkie finds people that are lost, on land or at sea, or stuck in avalanches, earthquakes and fires. This can today only be done through with an accuracy of approximately 100 meters. In [...]
Disasters
There are 500,000 earthquakes around the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt. 100 of them cause damage. A big factor encouraging the growth of urban SAR teams has been changing construction methods, such as the use of concrete slabs that — unlike timber, mud or bricks — create spaces or “voids” as [...]
