Mohammad Abu Sadeque Peng, Deputy Secretary, MoFDM Cell Ph' 8801819 220 223, abusadequegmail'com Net

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Mohammad Abu Sadeque Peng, Deputy Secretary,
MoFDM Cell Ph. - 88-01819 220 223,
abusadeque_at_gmail.comNetai Chandra Dey Sarker,
Asstt. Director, DMBCell Ph. 88 01552331433,
netai_at_mail.com
Ministry of Food and Disaster Management Governmen
t of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh
SAARC Regional Workshop on Earthquake Risk
Management Islamabad, Pakistan 8-9 October 2009
Earthquake Disaster Preparedness, Seismic
Monitoring Instrumentation Bangladesh
Perspective
dmb_at_btcl.net.bd www.dmb.gov.bd www.mofdm.gov.bd
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Location of Bangladesh in South Asia
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Tectonic Location of Bangladesh
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BANGLADESH AND ITS SURROUNDING ZONING MAP
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Seismic Zoning Map of Bangladesh
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Major Earthquakes Affecting Bangladesh
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1897 Earthquake Damage
Masonary building suffer extensive damage around
500 km away from the epicentre
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1897 Earthquake Damage
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RECENT EARTHQUAKES IN BANGLADESH

• May 8, 1997 Sylhet EQ (Mb 5.6)
• November 21, 1997 Bandarban EQ (Mb 6.1)
• July 22, 1999 Moheshkhali EQ (Mb 5.1)
• December 19, 2001, Dhaka EQ ( Mb 4.2)
• July 27, 2003 Rangamati (Barkal) EQ (Ms5.5)
• October, 2005, Jessore (Narial) EQ (Ms4.3)
• 5 July, 2008, Rajshahi (Tanore) EQ (Ms4.1)
• 27 July, 2008, Mymensingh
• (Haluaghat) EQ (Ms4.9)

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LANDSLIDE, KALABUNIA, RANGAMATIA
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BDR CAMP, KALABUNIA, RANGAMATIA
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BDR CAMP, KALABUNIA, RANGAMATIA
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BDR ARMS STORE, KALABUNIA, RANGAMATI
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EQ Preparedness for the Major Cities

• Seismic Micro-zonation Dhaka, Chittagong and
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  Sylhet

• Earthquake risk assessments
• Contingency planning for risk management
• Training program for risk reduction
• Capacity building of the GoB organizations and
  research institutions

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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment
GIS-based Building Inventory Using Satellite
Images (Quick bird) and Field Investigations
Sylhet 52, 176
Dhaka 326,825
Chittagong 184, 986
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Vulnerability Assessment (Dhaka)

Ministry of Food and Disaster Management
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Induced Earthquake Damage
Dhaka City Corporation Area 30 million tons of
debris will be generated. it will require
1,200,000 truckloads (_at_25 tons/truck)
Building- Related Economic Loss Estimates in
Dhaka City Corporation Area is US 6 billion
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Estimated Damage Loss to Essential Facilities
in Dhaka City Corporation Area
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Community Volunteers Development for Urban
Disaster Management

• Program for 62000 urban volunteers
• 6000 volunteers already there
• Functions
• Community Volunteers will respond first
• Community Volunteer will work with FSCD Personnel

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Capacity Building for GoB organization and
Academic institutions

• Procured and handed over Search, Rescue and Fire
  Fighting Equipments
• Procurement (1.7 million) of equipments in
  process
• Capacity building for research organizations and
  academic institutions

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Earthquake Hazard Assessment in Bangladesh and
Building Code

• An earthquake resistant design was prepared in
  1979
• Detailed seismic design provisions have been
  incorporated in the Bangladesh National
  Bangladesh Code

Seismic Macrozoning Map, used to develop building
code
Approved in parliament on November, 2006
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Recognizing the increasing seismicity in this
region and vulnerability of earthquake disaster
especially in cities due to 1.high density of
population, 2.unplanned infrastructure
and 3.close proximity with India and Myanmars
active seismic area GoB has given more
emphasis on earthquake preparedness and has been
implemented a project in 2006 for the
establishment of three new earthquake monitoring
stations along with up-gradation of the existing
one for monitoring of earthquake in and around
Bangladesh.
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Background of Seismic Monitoringin Bangladesh

• One earthquake station was established in
  Chittagong, coastal city of Bangladesh in 1954,
  till now twice the seismic instrument was
  upgraded with the available system.

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Seismic network

• Seismic monitoring nation-wide consists of Six
  Digital Broad-Band Seismometer (two Bore hole,
  four vault type), Six Digital Triaxial
  Accelerometers with GPS synchronization.
• Continuous data acquisition system. Networking
  among the four stations have been done by
  dedicated digital data network (DDN Link) for
  data transmission to the central data collection
  and processing center in BMD Headquarter.
• The central data collection and processing center
  will be networked with Geology Department of
  Dhaka University, BUET, Geological Survey of
  Bangladesh for promotion research.

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• Earthquake information generated from the central
  data collection and processing center of BMD
  share with all professional institutions and DMB
  (DMIC) disseminates the bulletin to community for
  preparedness and mitigation using its existing
  network.

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Towards the formation of Bangladesh National
Tsunami Warning Centre

• In consideration of vulnerability, Government of
  Bangladesh is eager to be associated with the
  International efforts to establish National
  Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) in Bangladesh.
• Functional NTWC would support national as well as
  regional Disaster Management System.

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Latest Earthquake Report
DATE TIME EPICENTRE MAGNITUDE
LOCATION DISTANCE(Km)
AND DIRECTION
21/9/2009 193841 20.65 N 94.58 E
5.4 MYANMAR REGION 552
SE 21/9/2009 155303 27.60 N
91.50 E 6.4 BHUTAN-CHINA BORDER REGION
462 N-NE 15/9/2009 183601 24.48 N
94.54 E 4.2 MYANMAR REGION
480 NE 04/9/2009 195107 24.11 N
94.29 E 6.0 MYANMAR-INDIA BORDER
REGION 424 NE 31/8/2009 192751 25.10 N
94.36 E 5.3 MYANMAR, INDIA BORDER
REGION 463 NE 28/8/2009 015202 37.04 N
96.54 E 6.3 Northern Qinghai,China
463 N-NE
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