EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RESILIENCE PART 3: Helping Community First Responders Prepare for Expected And Unexpected Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA lecture by Walter Hays Uploading date: August 07, 2013 More lectures at Disasters Supercourse - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/collections/collection52.htm PPT original - http://www.pitt.edu/~super7/50011-51001/50581.ppt Part I of this lecture Part II of this lecture
A WELL-PREPARED COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDER MAKES GOOD DECISIONS ABOUT THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION IN COMPLEX SITUATIONS, SOME OF WHICH ARE UNIQUE
The Process of Being Prepared for the Expected and Unexpected When an Earthquake Strikes a Communinity is Both an Art and a Science:
TSUNAMI FAULT RUPTURE REGIONAL DEFORMATION DAMAGE/LOSS FOUNDATION FAILURE EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE/ LOSS AMPLIFICATION DAMAGE/ LOSS VIBRATION LIQUEFACTION DAMAGE/ LOSS DAMAGE/LOSS LANDSLIDE DAMAGE/ LOSS AFTERSHOCKS DAMAGE/ LOSS SEICHE DAMAGE/ LOSS
HIGH VELOCITY OF INCOMING WAVES CAUSES OF RISK HIGH VELOCITY OF INCOMING WAVES DISTANCE OF WAVE RUNUP AND RUNOFF VERTICAL HEIGHT OF WAVE RUNUP TSUNAMIS INADEQUATE RESISTANCE OF BUILDINGS FLOODING CASE HISTORIES INADEQUATE WARNING SYSTEMS PROXIMITY TO SOURCE OF TSUNAMI
SITUATION: $309 BILLION LOSS FROM TSUNAMI WAVES
EARTHQUAKES: EXPECTED SITUATIONS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS (DAMAGE, LOSS OF FUNCTION, COLLAPSE, LOSS OF LIFE, LOSS OF HABITAT, LOSS OF JOBS, LOSS OF CONFIDENCE, LOSS OF ECONOMIC LOSSES, …)
SITUATION: THE ENTIRE URBAN AREA DAMAGED
SITUATION: 56 MILLION DAMAGED BUILDINGS
SITUATION: FAILURE OF URM BUILDING
SITUATION: COLLAPSE OF HIGH-RISE APARTMENT UNIT
SITUATION: DAMAGE TO HOUSING UNITS
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION OF SCHOOL
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION OF HOSPITAL
SITUATION: INTERIOR LOSS OF FUNCTION
SITUATION: SURFACE FAULT RUPTURE
SITUATION: GROUND FAILURE: LANDSLIDE
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION HANSHIN EXPRESSWAY
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION: ELEVATED EXPRESSWAY
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION OF AIRPORT
SITUATION: DISRUPTION OF TRANSPORTATION ROUTES
SITUATION: DAM FAILURE
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION TO UTILITY CORRIDOR
SITUATION: RADIOACTIVITY LEAK
SITUATION: DEATH TOLL REACHED 220,OOO+
SITUATIONl: 88,000 DEAD
SITUATION: LOSS OF FUNCTION IN PORT AREA
SITUATION: RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
SITUATION: OIL REFINERY FIRE
SITUATION: LOSS OF POWER AND LOSS OF FIREFIGHTING CAPABILITY
SITUATION: LOSS OF FIRE FIGHTING CAPABILITY
SITUATION: EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
SITUATION: NEED FOR TEMPORARY SHELTER
SITUATION: LOSS OF BUSINESS
SITUATION: LOSS OF 40 PERCENT OF GDP
SITUATION: NEED FOR FOOD AND WATER
SITUATION: LOSS OF REFINERY SERVICES
RISK ASSESSMENT ACCEPTABLE RISK HAZARD MAPS INVENTORY VULNERABILITY LOCATION RISK ASSESSMENT ACCEPTABLE RISK UNACCEPTABLE RISK RISK TOWARDS EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RESILIENCE DATA BASES AND INFORMATION YOUR COMMUNITY PPREPAREDNESS PROTECTION EARLY WARNING EMERGENCY RESPONSE RECOVERY and RECONSTRUCTION POLICY OPTIONS HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS
RESILIENCY POLICIES PREPAREDNESS (BE READY FOR ANYTHING) PROTECTION (BUILD TO WITHSTAND) SCENARIOS (KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT)
RESILIENCY POLICIES EMERGENCY RESPONSE (SAVE LIVES & PROTECT PROPERTY) RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION (RESTORE & NORM-ALIZE SERVICES)