Earthquakes pose a serious threat to modern societies and we live in seismically active areas. In order to adapt to this fact, we need to change our culture of emergency preparedness, improve local citizen response capacity, and enhance individual and community resilience.

The REDACt project intends to CAPITALIZE on Educational material published by COMPETENT AUTHORITIES at NATIONAL and REGIONAL levels and, based on conducted Research and widely acceptable scientific principles, to constructively contribute towards improving public safety against Earthquake related risks, in line with State Regulations and Emergency plans.

During Earthquake emergencies, the main problems identified by competent authorities in respect to public response include: panic; traffic jams; unawareness of the safe locations, the possible routes towards them and the time people can safely stay there.

At the same time, scientific research has shown that the prime concern people face during earthquake emergencies, is related to the unknown safety conditions and whereabouts of persons they care about; and this may also be a reason of panicking and of being willing to ignore the risks and expose themselves to existing hazards.

To improve the population’s preparedness and response capacity, REDACt focuses on improving Earthquake Disaster Mitigation public Education and Competencies by providing short guidelines and tools to help the public acquire, during earthquake emergencies, situational awareness regarding their main concerns and most important needs as defined in the previous paragraph. 

Given that voice communication during emergencies may be interrupted due to system overload, free software tools and services on how to –on demand- share information and live location over data, are provided in the form of very short tutorials. At the same time, navigation-able maps of safe locations based on data provided by competent State Authorities for the entire project implementation area, are included in order to make the REDACt EDU-HUB an one-stop site to acquire all the necessary info and support.

The REDACt project Team would like to invite you  to browse through the Educational Hub and become a part of the joint effort, to improve community resilience and the overall safety against Earthquakes.

Please submit your questions, comments and/or suggestions to redact.euproject@gmail.com