Earthquakes are dynamic laboratories for learning and catalysts for building capacity for disaster-intelligent & disaster-resilient communities. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
Diane McClymont Peace, Environmental Health Research Division, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada. Presentation at the HOUSING REALITIES FOR INUIT 2012 WORKSHOP organized by Inuit Tuttarvingat of NAHO, February 16, 2012.
Plan B is a worldwide mobilization to stabilize population and stabilize climate. Plan B replaces the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy: primarily wind, solar, and geothermal. Its transportation systems are diverse and aim to maximize mobility, widely employing light rail, buses, and bicycles.
Plan B lays out a budget for eradicating poverty, educating the world’s youth, and delivering better health for all. It also presents ways to restore our natural world by planting trees, conserving topsoil, stabilizing water tables, and protecting biological diversity. With each new wind farm, rooftop solar water heater, paper recycling facility, bicycle path, marine park, rural school, public health facility, and reforestation program, we move closer to a Plan B economy.
About Lester Brown:
LESTER R. BROWN, founder and President of Earth Policy Institute, has been described by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” and as “the guru of the global environmental movement” by The Telegraph of Calcutta. The recipient of scores of awards and honorary degrees and author of numerous books, he helped pioneer the concept of environmentally sustainable development.
Diane McClymont Peace, Environmental Health Research Division, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada. Presentation at the HOUSING REALITIES FOR INUIT 2012 WORKSHOP organized by Inuit Tuttarvingat of NAHO, February 16, 2012.
Plan B is a worldwide mobilization to stabilize population and stabilize climate. Plan B replaces the fossil-fuel-based, automobile-centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy: primarily wind, solar, and geothermal. Its transportation systems are diverse and aim to maximize mobility, widely employing light rail, buses, and bicycles.
Plan B lays out a budget for eradicating poverty, educating the world’s youth, and delivering better health for all. It also presents ways to restore our natural world by planting trees, conserving topsoil, stabilizing water tables, and protecting biological diversity. With each new wind farm, rooftop solar water heater, paper recycling facility, bicycle path, marine park, rural school, public health facility, and reforestation program, we move closer to a Plan B economy.
About Lester Brown:
LESTER R. BROWN, founder and President of Earth Policy Institute, has been described by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” and as “the guru of the global environmental movement” by The Telegraph of Calcutta. The recipient of scores of awards and honorary degrees and author of numerous books, he helped pioneer the concept of environmentally sustainable development.
THREE KEY MESSAGES FROM ISLAMIC RELIEF'S REPORT FLOODED AND FORGOTTEN
1. FORGOTTEN EMERGENCY Eight million people remain in dire need of basic health care, food or shelter in Pakistan. Six million are at risk of fresh floods this monsoon season and some areas are already underwater again.
2. WOEFULLY INADEQUATE RESPONSE Despite the generous response of the British public and government, millions of Pakistanis are paying the price for a woefully inadequate international response overall that fell $603 million short of UN appeals. Those affected received only an eighth of what was spent on aid for Haiti’s hurricane victims.
3. END THE LOTTERY OF EMERGENCY AID International disaster relief is too often a lottery in which the response of donor governments varies dramatically according to other international demands and domestic economic constraints. The time has come to establish a global contingency fund to tackle climate-related emergencies and protect vulnerable countries from being so dependent on the lottery of fresh UN appeals and uncertain responses every time disaster strikes.
Letter from Radical Environmental Groups to NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Asking Him t...Marcellus Drilling News
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A tropical storm warning has been issued for Puerto Rico, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Miami. Looking ahead to 2013. Forecast of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration forecast: 13-20 named storms with 7-10 becoming hurricanes. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
The art and science of identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities. Important questions that must be addressed: 1. What level of casualties will occur in a future earthquake if the vulnerabilities in the built environment are not fixed? 2. What level of economic losses will occur in a future earthquake if the vulnerabilities in the built environment. are not fixed? Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
A case-control study of injuries arising from the earthquake in Armenia, 1988
H.K. Armenian, E.K. Noji, & A.P. Oganesian.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 70(2): 251-257 (1992)
The study attempts to identify predictors of injuries among persons who were hospitalized following the Armenian earthquake of 7 December 1988. A total of 189 such individuals were identified through neighbourhood polyclinics in the city of Leninakan and 159 noninjured controls were selected from the same neighbourhoods. A standardized interview questionnaire was used. Cases and controls shared many social and demographic characteristics; however, 98% of persons who were hospitalized with injuries were inside a building at the time of the earthquake, compared with 83% of the controls (odds ratio = 12.20, 95% confidence interval (Cl) = 3.62-63.79). The odds ratio of injuries for individuals who were in a building that had five or more floors, compared with those in lower buildings, was 3.65 (95% Cl = 2.12-6.33). Leaving buildings after the first shock of the earthquake was a protective behaviour. The odds ratio for those staying indoors compared with those who ran out was 4.40 (95% Cl = 2.24-8.71).
THREE KEY MESSAGES FROM ISLAMIC RELIEF'S REPORT FLOODED AND FORGOTTEN
1. FORGOTTEN EMERGENCY Eight million people remain in dire need of basic health care, food or shelter in Pakistan. Six million are at risk of fresh floods this monsoon season and some areas are already underwater again.
2. WOEFULLY INADEQUATE RESPONSE Despite the generous response of the British public and government, millions of Pakistanis are paying the price for a woefully inadequate international response overall that fell $603 million short of UN appeals. Those affected received only an eighth of what was spent on aid for Haiti’s hurricane victims.
3. END THE LOTTERY OF EMERGENCY AID International disaster relief is too often a lottery in which the response of donor governments varies dramatically according to other international demands and domestic economic constraints. The time has come to establish a global contingency fund to tackle climate-related emergencies and protect vulnerable countries from being so dependent on the lottery of fresh UN appeals and uncertain responses every time disaster strikes.
Letter from Radical Environmental Groups to NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Asking Him t...Marcellus Drilling News
A letter signed by a few groups, but mostly by individuals pretending to be groups, request that Cuomo consider mythical global warming and act to ban shale drilling in New York based on that hokum. It's more of the same left-wing pap from the same left-wing groups.
A tropical storm warning has been issued for Puerto Rico, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Miami. Looking ahead to 2013. Forecast of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration forecast: 13-20 named storms with 7-10 becoming hurricanes. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
The art and science of identifying and eliminating vulnerabilities. Important questions that must be addressed: 1. What level of casualties will occur in a future earthquake if the vulnerabilities in the built environment are not fixed? 2. What level of economic losses will occur in a future earthquake if the vulnerabilities in the built environment. are not fixed? Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
A case-control study of injuries arising from the earthquake in Armenia, 1988
H.K. Armenian, E.K. Noji, & A.P. Oganesian.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 70(2): 251-257 (1992)
The study attempts to identify predictors of injuries among persons who were hospitalized following the Armenian earthquake of 7 December 1988. A total of 189 such individuals were identified through neighbourhood polyclinics in the city of Leninakan and 159 noninjured controls were selected from the same neighbourhoods. A standardized interview questionnaire was used. Cases and controls shared many social and demographic characteristics; however, 98% of persons who were hospitalized with injuries were inside a building at the time of the earthquake, compared with 83% of the controls (odds ratio = 12.20, 95% confidence interval (Cl) = 3.62-63.79). The odds ratio of injuries for individuals who were in a building that had five or more floors, compared with those in lower buildings, was 3.65 (95% Cl = 2.12-6.33). Leaving buildings after the first shock of the earthquake was a protective behaviour. The odds ratio for those staying indoors compared with those who ran out was 4.40 (95% Cl = 2.24-8.71).
Sandy, 2012’s ninth hurricane, became a huge storm with wind and rain bands reaching out 500 km or more from the storm center, produced 15-50 cm of rain and flooding in Jamaica, Bermuda, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, New Jersey, and New York
Officials dispatched thousands of police, firefighters, soldiers and government officials to search for survivors in an effort to keep loss of life as low as possible. Rescue efforts were hampered by landslides and roads which had already been closed as the result of heavy rain.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 Mw occurred 100 km NE of Islamabad at 0850 local time (0350 GMT) on October 08, 2005. The epicenter of the main shock was located 19 km northeast of Muzaffarabad. Designated as the deadliest earthquake in Pakistan, it took a death toll of more than 80,000 human lives.
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS: FLOODING. For centuries, china has enperienced record flooding associated with the rainey season or typhoons. Impacts of flooding in china during 2007: Floods alone killed more than 1,348 people in China during 2007. Economic losses from floods reached more than $10 billion USD. An estimated 139 million people were adversely affected by floods. As many as 2.7 million were evacuated in advance of a single potential flood event. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
Landslides Represent Permanent Deformation Caused By The Downward And Outward Movements Of Large Volumes Of Soil And/Or Rock Under The Influence Of Gravity. Landslides Occur Naturally. Landslides Can Be Triggered And/Or Exacerbated By: 1) Water (From Precipitation During A Tropical Storm, Hurricane, Or Typhoon), Or 2) Vibrations (From Ground Shaking) During An Earthquake. Millions Of Communities Are Not Resilient To Landslide Disasters. One Of The Myths Of Disasters Is That Landslide Disasters, Which Occur Annually In Every Nation, Should Be Enough To Make All Nations Adopt And Implement Policies That Will Lead To Landslide Disaster Resilience. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, This Premise Is Wrong; It Usually Takes Multiple Disasters Before A Stricken Nation Will Adopt Policies To Move Towards Disaster Resilience. Lesson: The Timing Of Anticipatory Actions Is Vital. The People Who Know: 1) What To Expect (E.G., Rock Falls, “quake Lakes,” Mud Flows, Etc.), 2) Where And When It Will Happen, And 3) What They Should (And Should Not) Do To Prepare Will Survive. The People Who Have Timely Early Warning In Conjunction With A Modern Monitoring System, And A Community Evacuation Plan That Facilitates Getting Out Of Harm’s Way From The Risks Associated With Rock Falls, Mudflows, Etc. Will Survive. Engineering To Stabilize Slopes Will Reduce Damage To Buildings And Infrastructure And Help Sustain Their Functions And Save Lives. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction
LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS: LANDSLIDES. Large volume landslides occur in association with an earthquake’s ground shaking or a typhoon’s rainfall. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
We continue to operate with a flawed premise: knowledge from earthquake disasters, which occur annually on a global scale, is enough to make any nation susceptible to earthquakes adopt and implement policies that will facilitate its own disaster resilience. Fact: it usually takes multiple earthquake disasters before a stricken nation will adopt and implement policies that move it towards earthquake disaster resilience. Fact: most unaffected nations don’t even try to learn anything new from another nation’s earthquake disasters and certainly don’t consider them to be a basis for changing existing policies. Pillars of earthquake disaster resilience: preparedness
adoption and implementation of a modern earthquake engineering building code; realistic earthquake disaster scenarios; timely emergency response (including emergency medical services); cost-effective reconstruction & recovery. The challenge: policy changes: create, adjust, and realign programs, partners and people until you have created the kinds of turning points needed for moving towards earthquake disaster resilience. Presentation courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
Brief Description of Kerala Flood of 2018
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A torrential rain event during the first full week of March 2016 featuring over two feet of record March rain in the South unleashed major river flooding, rising to historic levels in some areas. Add flooding along the Gulf Coast, and the disaster became a triple assault. In all, 400 homes flooded in Mississippi. Three people were killed in Louisiana, the governor said. In one case, a driver died when floodwater swept his vehicle off a road in Bienville Parish, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said. The two others died in Ouachita Parish, according to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
Knowledge From Cyclone Disasters, Which Occur Annually In Parts Of The Pacific And Indian Oceans, Is Enough To Make Any Nation Susceptible To Cyclones Adopt And Implement Policies That Will Facilitate Its Disaster Resilience. The people who know: 1) what to expect (e.g., storm surge, high-velocity winds, rain, flash floods, and landslides,), 2) where and when it will happen, and 3) what they should (and should not) do to prepare will survive. Integration Of Scientific And Technical Solutions With Political Solutions For Policies On Preparedness, Protection, Early Warning, Emergency Response, And Recovery Presentation Courtesy of Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction
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Two drivers stand out in this analysis because of their potentially large and negative effect on disaster risk, and the low associated uncer tainty of their future trends: global environmental change and demographic change. But others stand out for a different reason: while they have the potential to greatly increase disaster risk, there is also potential for effective policy action to achieve risk reduction. Urbanisation provides the clearest example: unmanaged growth of cities, par ticularly those in low elevation coastal zones, would leave millions in extremely vulnerable situations, but there will be oppor tunities for policy makers to intervene to increase resilience in urban areas. Other drivers, for example globalisation, have extremely complex interactions with disaster risk, but must nonetheless be considered. In this lecture I will discuss the impact of each of the eight drivers on disaster risk is considered.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the seismic hazard at the northwestern Egypt using the probabilistic seismic hazard assessment approach. The Probabilistic approach was carried out based on a recent data set to take into account the historic seismicity and updated instrumental seismicity. A homogenous earthquake catalogue was compiled and a proposed seismic sources model was presented. The doubly-truncated exponential model was adopted for calculations of the recurrence parameters. Ground-motion prediction equations that recently recommended by experts and developed based upon..
A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake rocked parts of South Asia on 26 October 2015. It was centred near Jurm in northeast Afghanistan, 250 kilometres (160 miles) from the capital Kabul and at a depth of 213.5 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. (AFP, 26 Oct 2015) Pakistan's confirmed death toll so far stands at 272, with more than 1,900 people injured and nearly 14,000 homes damaged, though the spokesman said the NDMA was still in the process of estimating a final toll. (AFP, 28 Oct 2015) In Afghanistan, Assessment reports indicate 117 deaths, 544 people injured, 12,794 homes damaged and 7,384 houses destroyed. Furthermore, 136,967 people are still in need of humanitarian assistance, of which 131,345 people have received some form of assistance so far date. More than 51,000 people were affected in Badakhshan alone, where property damage was most extensive. The earthquake claimed the most lives and caused the most casualties in Kunar and Nangarhar provinces. Access remains the most significant challenge in providing assistance to people in need and is an issue reaching at least 194 villages affected by the earthquake.
The 2016 Ecuador earthquake occurred on April 16 at 18:58:37 ECT with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The very large thrust earthquake was centered approximately 27 km (17 mi) from the towns of Muisne and Pedernales in a sparsely populated part of the country, and 170 km (110 mi) from the capital Quito, where it was felt strongly. Regions of Manta, Pedernales and Portoviejo accounted for over 75 percent of total casualties.[6] Manta's central commercial shopping district Tarqui, was completely destroyed. Widespread damage was caused across Manabi province, with structures hundreds of kilometres from the epicenter collapsing. At least 659 people were killed and 27,732 people injured. President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency; 13,500 military personnel and police officers were dispatched for recovery operations.
The moderate-magnitude quake struck at 9:26 p.M. Thursday night at a depth of 11 kilometers (7 miles) in southern Japan near Kumamoto city on the island of Kyushu. The epicenter was 120 kilometers (74 miles) northeast of Kyushu Electric Power Company's Sendai nuclear plant, the only one operating in the country; no adverse consequences were reported.
Lesson: the knowledge and timing of anticipatory actions is vital
The Kathmandu Valley is densely populated with nearly 2.5 million people, and the quality of building construction is often poor. The epicenter of today's disaster was 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the city, and had a depth of only 11 kilometers (7 miles), which is considered shallow in geological terms. This earthquake, the worst quake to hit Nepal (a poor South Asian nation) since 1934, collapsed buildings and houses, leveled centuries-old temples and triggered avalanches in the Himalayas. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction.
The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Several thousand participants attended, including at related events linked to the World Conference under the umbrella of building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution for 2013 on International Strategy for Disaster Reduction states that the World Conference will result in a concise, focused, forward-looking, and action-oriented outcome document and will have the following objectives:
* To complete assessment and review of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action;
* To consider the experience gained through the regional and national strategies/institutions and plans for disaster risk reduction and their recommendations as well as relevant regional agreements within the implementation of the Hyogo Framework of Action;
* To adopt a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction;
* To identify modalities of cooperation based on commitments to implement a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction;
* To determine modalities to periodically review the implementation of a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.
Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
March 15, 2015: The second world conference on disaster risk reduction convened in Sendai, Japan will re-invigorate the historic global endeavor started in 1990 by the United Nations. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
Popocatapatele and Colima, two of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, are acting up again. For now the eruptions are not considered to be dangerous and no evacuations have been ordered. But don’t forget that the world’s 1,498 other active volcanoes can erupt at anytime too. A re-eruption of any of these active volcanoes is likely to be very devastating, locally, regionally, and globally. Location and a large explosivity index (VEI) combine to make some volcanoes especially dangerous. Location refers to proximity to cities and other areas of high human population density. An eruption with large VEI at such locations is certain to be devastating to people, their property, their health, the community infra-structure, the environment, and the economy. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction.
INDIA IS BIG, DIVERSE, and CAPABLE. It is the seventh largest country, The second most populous country with human resources of over 1.2 billion people having cultural and religious diversity, The most populous democracy, with many well- educated and well-trained people, with high-tech and low-tech capabilities. On the downside, it is also a country with many living in poverty, with many living in non-earthquake-resistant housing, with cities and towns that are dependent upon non- earthquake-resistant infrastructure and critical facilities. India faces potential disasters each year from floods, earthquakes, and cyclones, some of which have triggered notable disasters in the past, and very recently. That will happen again, unless a paradigm shift occurs. Disaster resilience has become an urgent global goal in the 21st century as many Nations are experiencing disasters after a natural hazard strikes, and learning that their communities, institutions, and people do NOT yet have the capacity to be disaster resilient. Disaster resilience does not just happen; it is the result of decision-making for a national paradigm shift from the status quo to an improved “coping capacity” that enables the country to rebound quickly after a disaster. A paradigm shift towards earthquake disaster resilience is a three step process. Step 1: Integrate Past Experiences Into Books of Knowledge. Step 2: From Books of Knowledge to Innovative Educational Surges to Build Professional and Technical Capacit. Step 3: From Professional and Technical Capacity to Disaster Resilience. In summary, BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE are are “TOOLS” to facilitate India’s continuing commitment to minimize the likely impacts of the inevitable future earthquake, thereby preventing another disaster
Disaster resilience, which is the capacity of a country to rebound quickly after the socioeconomic impacts of a disaster, requires decision-making for a national paradigm shift from the status quo. Disaster resilience has become an urgent global goal in the 21st century as many Nations are experiencing disasters after a natural hazard strikes, and learning that their communities, institutions, and people do NOT yet have the capacity to be disaster resilient. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction.
On January 29, 2015, a routine delivery of gas to a maternity hospital in Mexico City leads to a deadly explosion killing 4 and injuring dozens. The explosion occurred when a gas tanker was making a routine, early morning delivery of gas to the hospital kitchen, and gas started to leak. The tanker workers worked for 15 to 20 minutes to repair the leak while a large cloud of gas was forming, then exploded. Technologies for monitoring, forecasting, and warning are vital for becoming resilient. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
Disasters are caused by single- or multiple-event natural hazards that, (for various reasons), cause extreme levels of mortality, morbidity, homelessness, joblessness, economic losses, or environmental impacts. The keys to resilience: 1) know the history of past disasters 2) be prepared 3) have a warning system 4) evacuate 5) learn from the experience
As we begin the year 2015, we must unfortunately recognize that it is well past the time to speed up the long-term recovery process for earthquakes (and tsunamis). The main insights from global earthquakes have consistently shown that being prepared includes pre-earthquake planning for post-earthquake recovery ("PEPPER"). Only about 110 of the 10 million earthquakes of all sizes that occur somewhere in the world each year are large enough and close enough to a community to cause a disaster, which creates a multitude of local and regional dilemmas about what to do, both before and after the quake, to shorten the recovery process. THE SOLUTION: PRE-EARTHQUAKE PLANNING FOR POST-EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY(PEPPER). “THE END GAME” FOR JAPAN AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Identification of the physical, social and economic consequences of a major earthquake in Tokai, Japan or Southern California will enable end users to identify what they can change now before the earthquake—to shorten recovery from the catastrophic impacts after the inevitable “big ones” occur, probably in the near future.
Floods occur somewhere in the world 10,000 times or more each year. With 2015’s spring floods only weeks away, it’s past time to speed up the long-term recovery process for floods. In 2008, after weeks of flooding through Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Wisconsin, the region faced billions of dollars in losses, threats of disease, and a long cleanup. Losses included millions of acres of prime farm land that are still requiring restoration and the rebuilding of large urban areas such as Cedar Rapids, Iowa which alone is estimated to have required at least $1 billion. However, the total direct and indirect losses may never be known. Flood waters during the summer of 2008 seeped into countless wells, affecting drinking water for thousands of homes and businesses across the region. Hazardous materials were also released into the flood waters that ultimately emptied into the Gulf of Mexico exacerbating what marine biologists call a “dead zone” – bodies of water so starved for oxygen that aquatic life can no longer be supported. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction.
A focus on actions in 2015 will accelerate the transition from the past 14 years of global disaster proneness to global disaster resilience by 2020. A snaphot of our world circa 1st January 2015: 7+ billion people, and growing while Living and competing in an interconnected global economy, producing $60 trillion+ of products each year,and facing complex disasters every year that cause multi-billions in losses and reduce a community’s ability to withstand natural catastrophes. The challenge of our time in the 21st century: Protecting and preserving PEOPLE and COMMUNITIES from the potential disaster agents of natural hazards. The “best solution set” vis a vis the global policy framework to strengthen disaster resilience include (1) anticipate and plan for the full spectrum of what can happen; (2) to build capacity at the community level to strengthen disaster in the areas of preparedness, protection, early warning, emergency response, and recovery/reconstruction; (3) to be relentless in informing, educating, training, and building equity in all areas that constitute disaster resilience in all sectors of every community in every nation. WE KNOW WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT. But just knowing is not enough. Tangible action is essential to reach the urgent goal of global disaster resilience by 2020 and will require that all communities work strategically to implement a realistic set of scientific, technical, and political solutions nested within EXISTING administrative, legal, and economic constraints. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction.
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Lessons From Past Notable Earthquakespart - Sichuan China
1. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PREPAREDNESS
PLANNING FOR
THE INEVITABLE
STRONG GROUND
MOTION IS
ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
9. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PREPAREDNESS
PLANNING FOR
THE INEVITABLE
STRONG GROUND
MOTION IS
ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
10. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PROTECTION OF
BUILDINGS AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
IS ESSENTIAL
FOR COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
18. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PREPAREDNESS
PLANNING FOR
THE INEVITABLE
GROUND FAILURE
IS ESSENTIAL
FOR COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
21. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
CAPACITY FOR
INTELLIGENT
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE IS
ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
22. EMERGENCY RESPONSE
HINDERED BY AFTERSHOCKS
According to the China
Seismological Bureau, 10,068
aftershocks were detected
within 3 weeks after the main
shock.
34. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
CAPACITY FOR
RECOVERY AND
RECONSTRUCTION
IS ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
37. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
• Within three weeks, the
death toll, which would
eventually reach 88,000,
reached 69,107
•The number of injured
reached 373,577
38. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
1,064,591 people were
evacuated from damaged and
destroyed homes or homes
threatened by floods to safer
places .
39. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•Fifteen million homeless
and displaced people had
been housed in tent cities
and temporary shelters
across the region.
40. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•The government had allocated 23.074
billion yuan (3.33 billion U.S. dollars)
for quake relief efforts.
• The relief fund included 18.68 billion
yuan from the central budget and
4.394 billion yuan from local budgets.
41. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•Domestic and foreign donations
reached 42.364 billion yuan (6.11
billion U.S. dollars), up 624 million
yuan overnight.
•12.1 billion yuan had been
forwarded to the most severely
affected areas.
42. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
• 749,200 tents, one of the most
urgently needed relief supplies,
had been delivered to stricken
families.
• A total of 4,416,100 quilts and
11,700,200 garments had also
been delivered to stricken regions.
43. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•Relief workers had built 15,500
temporary houses and another
10,600 were being put together.
•The material for 45,700
makeshift houses had arrived in
the impacted areas.
44. TEMPORARY HOUSING
• As of Tuesday, July 8th, relief
workers had built 447,600
temporary houses and another
23,600 were ready to install.
• The materials for 50,600 new
shelters had arrived in the
affected areas.
45. TENTS, QUILTS, GARMENTS,
AND FUEL
About 1.58 million tents,
4.87 million quilts, 14.1
million garments, and 1.84
million tons of fuel oil had
been sent to the quake-hit
areas.
46. ROAD RESTORATION
As of Wednesday noon, July
9th, 52,418 km of the 53,295
km of roads damaged in the
quake, had been restored to
service.
47. BEICHUAN COUNTY
As a part of the reconstruction
process, soldiers helped by
disinfecting and cleaning up
Beichuan, one of the areas that
was razed to the ground after
suffering heavy damage.
48. NEW POLICY: JUNE 8TH
Premier Wen Jiabao signed a
regulation on reconstruction
which established the
“protection of the ecological
environment with economic and
social development" as a
guiding principle.
49. DEBRIS AND ENVIRON-
MENTAL IMPACTS
• When China's military had
disposed of 8 million cubic
meters of debris, cleanup had
barely begun, and the tip of the
environmental iceberg was
barely exposed.
50. WATER
• Contaminated water is one
of the biggest environ-
mental issues to ascertain
after the earthquake.
51. LONG TERM HEALTH
IMPACTS
• Concern about long-term health
impacts is well founded as a
result of adverse environmental
impacts on soil, air, and water.
52. THE RECONSTRUCTION
DEMANDS ARE HUGE
According to the State Council
Information Office, about
5,461,900 houses collapsed,
5,932,500 houses were seriously
damaged, and another 21 million
need repairs.
53. DEATHS, INJURED, AND
MISSING
• The official death toll stood at
69,197 as of Wednesday , July
9th, according to the State
Council Information Office .
• The number of injured and
missing stood at 374,176 and
18,379 respectively
54. The government disaster relief fund had reached 56.088 billion yuan (about 8.19 billion U.S. dollars), including 50.748 billion yuan from the central budget and 5.34
DISASTER FUNDS
The government disaster relief
fund reached 56.088 billion
yuan (about 8.19 billion U.S.
dollars), including 50.748
billion yuan from the central
budget and 5.34 billion yuan
from the local budget.