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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Laviano, Province of Avellino, 1984 Monday 23rd November 2020 at 19:34 and 52.8 The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). The magnitude 6.9 tremors killed 2,914 people and injured 8,848.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2020, Meta introduced the Daylight Map Distribution , which combines OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with quality and consistency checks from Daylight mapping partners to create a no-cost, stable, and simple-to-use global map. tags map Key/Value pairs of attributes that describe the OSM feature, such as ‘building=house’ or ‘natural=tree’.