The looks Angeles earthquake of January 17 1994 measured 68 in succession the Richter scale.

The looks Angeles earthquake of January 17 1994 measured 68 in succession the Richter scale, breaking water and gas lines, collapsing freeways and destroying buildings and lives. In the following days, the staff of the looks Angeles County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) received thousands of frantic calls from residents wanting to know if their water was safe to drink or if there were alternative paths to avoid damaged roads.

The day after the quake, EOC asked Wayne Bannister, manager of Urban Research Section in sees Angeles, to help it translate field damage reports into maps. "They were getting five or six pages of faxes at a time from the highway patrol -- fair cryptic stuff about stretches of road that were damaged or closed" Bannister says.

Before the earthquake, the EOC had been planning to install its possess workstation-based GIS, and the performance of the Urban Research team was attestation under ...