2011’s executive summary a global wake-up-call: our cities must become disaster resilient
DESCRIPTION
2011’s EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A GLOBAL WAKE-UP-CALL: OUR CITIES MUST BECOME DISASTER RESILIENT. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
2011’s EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A GLOBAL WAKE-UP-CALL: OUR CITIES MUST BECOME
DISASTER RESILIENT
Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of
North Carolina, USA
2011 showed that a city’s ability to avoid catastrophic
mortality, morbidity, and economic losses depends upon its resilience (i.e., the
capability to take a hit from a natural hazard and bounce
back after it happens).
2011’s MAIN LESSON
DISASTERS and CATASTROPHES OCCUR WHEN ALL FOUR PILLARS
OF DISASTER RESILIENCE ARE NOT IN PLACE.
YOUR YOUR COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY
DATA BASES DATA BASES AND INFORMATIONAND INFORMATION
HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS
•HAZARD MAPS•INVENTORY•VULNERABILITY•LOCATION
RISK ASSESSMENTRISK ASSESSMENT
RISK
ACCEPTABLE RISK
UNACCEPTABLE RISK
ANTICIPATORY ANTICIPATORY DECISIONS DECISIONS
BEST POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR:•PREPAREDNESS•PROTECTION•RESPONSE & RECOVERY
4 PILLARS OF DISASTER 4 PILLARS OF DISASTER RESILIENCERESILIENCE
2011’s NOTABLE NEAR-DISASTERS, DISASTERS,
AND CATASTROPHES
NOTABLE DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHES DURING NOTABLE DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHES DURING 20112011
FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA
EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IN JAPANWILDFIRES IN ARIZONA AND TEXASHURRICANE IRENE AND TROPIAL STORM LEE
FLOODS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI River
SUPER TORNADO OUTBREAK
CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE
NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR COMMUNITY DISASTER COMMUNITY DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONRISK REDUCTION
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
MONSOON RAIN-TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES KILL AT LEAST
700 IN RIO DE JANEIRO STATE, BRAZIL
ALTHOUGH RAINFALL IN MID-JANUARY IS COMMON, A MONTH’S RAINFALL IN 24
HOURS IS NOTJANUARY 13-20, 2011
5 MILLION BRAZILIANS LIVE IN HIGH-RISK AREAS
Five million Brazilians live in 500 areas deemed at high risk for landslides and 300 areas at high risk for flooding.
NOVO FRIBURGO: DEBRIS
MONSTER WINTER STORM IMPACTS USA’S MIDWEST
AND NEW ENGLAND STATES
From ice in Texas to too much snow in New England
FEBRUARY 1-2, 2011
MONSTER WINTER STORM (FLORIDA IS LOWER RIGHT): FEB 1
CYCLONE YASI STRIKES NORTHERN QUEENSLAND
STATE, AUSTRALIA
CAT 5 monster storm made landfall with winds gusting to 300 km/hr
FEBRUARY 2-3, 2011
CYCLONE YASI: A TROPICAL DISTURBANCE ON JANUARY 25
WILDFIRES RAGED OUT OF CONTROL IN WEST TEXAS AND TEXAS PANHAMDLE
DROUGHT - AND WIND- AIDED WILDFIRES SCORCHED 80,000 -100,000 ACRES
MARCH 12 - APRIL 11, 2011
WILDFIRE IN TEXAS PANHANDLE
Billowing smoke caused by a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle near Borger, Texas, Sunday, March 12, 2006.
M9.0 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI
DEVASTATED JAPAN
4TH LARGEST QUAKE EVER 3 – 100 M TSUNAMI WAVES2:46 pm MARCH 11, 2011
DISASTER RISKS FACED BY JAPAN DISASTER RISKS FACED BY JAPAN
EARTHQUAKES
TSUNAMIS
TYPHOONS
FLOODS
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
LANDSLIDES
DEVELOP POLICIES FOR ACTIONS HAVING HIGH BENEFIT/COST FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
GOAL: REDUCE DISASTER GOAL: REDUCE DISASTER RISK RISK
TSUNAMI WAVE PATH
PASSENGERS STRANDED: SENDAI STATION
FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR FACILITY HAD 3 FAILURES
DEVASTATING LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES
INDUCED BY HEAVY RAIN
22 MINERS TRAPPED, BUT ONLY 3 DEATHS
2:30 am, GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011
DEVASTATING LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES
SEARCH AND RESCUE
164 TORNADOS IN 24 HOURS IMPACTED 7
SOUTHEASTERN STATES
MS HIT BY EF5 AND AL BY EF4 TORNADOES
OVERALL DEATH TOLL REACHED 350 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27-
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011
TUSCALOOSA, AL: 15TH STREET DAMAGE; APRIL 27, 2011
SAVING DOWNSTREAM CITIES AND REFINERIES WAS
THE GOAL AS MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRESTED IN MEMPHIS AND FLOOD WATERS MOVED
SOUTHWARD
MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LOOKING LIKE AN OCEAN, NOT A RIVER: MAY 9
WORST SINGLE TORNADO SINCE 1953 STRIKES JOPLIN,
MISSOURI
REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER TAKES A DIRECT HIT
AT LEAST 116 DEATHSSUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011
WARNING SYSTEMS
• Tornado sirens blared, giving residents10 to 17 minutes of warning.
THE STORM SYSTEM AT 6:20 PM SATURDAY, MAY 21: TOPEKA, KS
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING: BAD WEATHER
MAY 23: At daybreak, rescue crews were looking at piles of 2,000 damaged buildings,
splintered houses and crushed cars, house after
house reduced to slabs, cars crushed like soda cans, ---
CONTINUED: ---Shaken residents roamed streets in
search of missing family members, fires from gas
leaks burning across town, and more violent weather
looming.
ST JOHNS REGIONAL MEDICAL CEN-TER TOOK A DIRECT HIT: JOPLIN, MO
HEAVY DAMAGE ALONG ½ MILE-WIDE - 6 MILE LONG PATH
RECORD FLOODING IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA:
MUDSLIDES EXACERBATED DISASTER IN S KOREA
SHARP CONTRAST IN INFORMATION TUESDAY, JULY 20 - THURSDAY,
JULY 28, 2011
CHRONOLOGY OF THE DISASTER
• The heaviest rainfall to impact N and S Korea in a century started on Tuesday, July 20th.
• The Han River, which runs through Seoul, reached its highest point just before dawn on Sunday, July 25th
NORTH KOREA: SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2011
SOUTH KOREA: 100,000 SOLDIERS MOBILIZED FOR SEARCH/RESCUE
FLOODING IN BANKOK, THAILAND AREA
Worst flooding in 50 Years
JULY - OCTOBER, 2011
OVER 370 DEAD AND LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $6
BILLION FROM PROLONGED FLOODING
BANGKOK: A FLOODED BEAUTY SALON
SANDBAGGING: CHAO PRAYA RIVER
IRENE: A $7 BILLION DISASTERNinth Storm and the First Hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic Basin Storm Season
August 21 to August 30 2011
AUG 28: FORECAST OF IRENE’S EXIT
TYPHOON ROKE STRIKES JAPAN
Three Weeks after Typhoon Talas (killed 67), and a M6.6 Earthquake
September 21, 2011
PATH OF TYPHOON TALAS
EARTHQUAKE STRIKES CHRISTCHURCH, NEW
ZEALAND
A SHALLOW (4.1 KM), M6.3 QUAKE LOCATED 5 KM FROM
CHRISTCHURCH (USGS) STRUCK AT NOON ON A WORK DAY
EPICENTRES: SEPT 2010 AND FEB 2011 EARTHQUAKES
THE SHALLOW, 20 KM (12 MILE) DEEP, SMALLER EARTHQUAKE
WAS MUCH MORE DESTRUCTIVE THAN THE DEEPER, LARGER
EARTHQUAKE
M7.2 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES VAN PROVINCE IN EASTERN TURKEY
600 DEAD
1:41 PM (6:41 AM EDT), OCTOBER 24, 2011
COLLAPSED BUILDINGS: TABALANI
GAMALAMA ERUPTS IN INDONESIA
eruption began at 11:00 PM
Extensive Mudflows TriggeredDECEMBER 4, 2011
1715-M-HIGH VOLCANO GAMALAMA
GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE GOAL: COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE
FLOODS
SEVERE WIND STORMS
EARTHQUAKES
DROUGHTS
LANDSLIDES
WILDFIRES
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
TSUNAMIS
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARDS
INCREASE TECHNICAL AND POLITICL CAPACITY OF COMMUNITY TO COPE
INCREASE OWNERSHIP AND USE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
USE DISASTERS INFO TO USE DISASTERS INFO TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY IMPROVE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE RESILIENCE
TURNING 2011’S DISASTERS INTO DISASTER RESILIENCE
USE EDUCATIONAL SURGES TO CREATE TURNING POINTS
BUILDING CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
• Identify the gaps in community capacity in the four critical elements of the solution.
• Concentrate resources on filling the gaps in the four critical elements of the solution and start creating turning points for changing FROM NON-RESILIENT TO RESILIENT.
4 CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
• PREPAREDNESS (READY FOR ANY COMPLEX EVENT)
• PROTECTION (BUILD ESSENTIAL AND CRITICAL FACILITIES TO WITHSTAND)
4 CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE
• RESPONSE (SAVING LIVES, AND ENSURING CONTINUITY)
• RECOVERY (BOUNCING BACK QUICKLY AND RESUMING LIFE AVAIN)