Title: Dr. Laura S. L. Kong, Director
1UNESCO IOC TSUNAMI PROGRAMME
PEOPLE-CENTRED TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
The Challenge of Building Preparedness at the
National and Local Levels
- Dr. Laura S. L. Kong, Director
- International Tsunami Information Centre
- Indonesia Roundtable, 17 May 2006
2WHY IS A TSUNAMI A HAZARD?
- WAVE HEIGHTS GROW IN SHALLOW WATER
- Best Case Quickly Rising Tide
- Worst Case Wall of water with rocks
- and debris
- Runups gt 30 m
April 1, 1946 Aleutian Islands
earthquake Hilo, Hawaii
3WHY IS A TSUNAMI A HAZARD?
- DANGER CONTINUES FOR MANY HOURS
- HIGH FATALITY HAZARD
- GLOBAL IMPACT blind to political boundaries
-
Locally,
arrives in
minutes Distant,
travels hours across
Ocean
300,000 deaths - 11 countries 1 million displaced
Myanmar - 100
16,389
8,327
Somalia - 430
80
35,262
Kenya - 1
Seychelles - 3
220,149
Tanzania - 10
Maldives - 108
Casualties Data source International Federation
of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 9 March
2005
42 TSUNAMI THREATS
- LOCAL / REGIONAL
- Generated nearby
- Strikes shore quickly (in minutes)
- gt NO TIME for official evacuation
- Education, Awareness
- People-centered response recognize / act
immediately - DISTANT / OCEAN-WIDE
- Generated far away, instr detection
- Strikes shore later (2 hours)
- gt TIME for official evacuation
- Widespread Damage
- Tsunami Warning Center, then
- People-centered response locally-guided safety
actions
July 12, 1993,Japan Sea
May 22, 1960, Chile tsunami in Hilo
5TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEM
-
- An EFFECTIVE system means
- All persons in
- vulnerable coastal communities
- are prepared
- to respond appropriately, and
- in a timely manner
- upon recognition
- that a potentially destructive tsunami
- may be approaching.
6TWS SYSTEM COMPONENTS END-TO-END SYSTEM MUST
EXIST!
Develop National and Regional Capacity to
- 1. Assess national tsunami
risk (Hazard assessment) - 2. Establish national / regional warning center
against local and regional tsunamis (Warning
guidance) - 3. Promote education/preparedness and
risk reduction against tsunami hazard
(Mitigation and Public Awareness)
7LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
-
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
8THREE BASIC WARNING NEEDS
- VERY RAPID
EARTHQUAKE EVAL -
- VERY RAPID
SEA LEVEL EVAL - VERY RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS
-
- Multi-national, Global Nets
- Real-time transmission
- Data Sharing
-
- ALL REQUIRED
- FOR WARNING
IOC GLOSS Network, including real-time, non-real
time, archive
9Improving Warning Guidance Real-time, deep ocean,
tsunami detection
10 Risk Reduction Strategy Warning Guidance
Early Detection
COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT
WARNING Measurement Real-Time
Data GUIDANCE Telecomm
Early Detection Numerical Wave
Forecast Simulation Warning
Dissem
to the last
km
Evaluation time Tele-tsunamis
15 min
60 min
3
15
4 hrs to Hawaii 3 hrs to evacuate
Local tsunamis
11LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
-
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
12TSUNAMI Early Warning Overview
Earthquake Tsunami
National Government
Local Government
Tsunami Warning Center
What is Tsunami?
People
Where is Evacuation Route?
Mass Media
International - Regional Framework
National Warning System
Public Awareness
Cabinet Office Japan
13Communication Transmission of Tsunami Warning
to Localities Civil Defense Authorities
Central Government
Local government
TSUNAMI WARNING
Radio
TV / Radio Station
TV(Telops, Warning maps)
Cabinet Office Japan
14Alert WarningTechnology assists people-based
warnings
- Getting warning to responders
- Getting warning to public
- Use table top exercises to identify problems and
for training - Conduct drills in the community
- Test the notification systems
15LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
-
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
16JAPAN TSUNAMI SAFETY
Tsunami attacks immediately short after a
strongly felt earthquake !
Tsunami approaches with high speed!
Tsunami has a destructive force!
Tsunami attacks repeatedly!
First tsunami wave is not always largest!
17Tsunami Public Awareness Localization
Japan ADRC
18LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
-
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
19TsunamiReady Program
- 24-hour warning point
- Duplication of communication systems
- Workshops
- Tsunami Plan
- Exercises
20Keys to Community SuccessIdentify a Tsunami
Champion
- Locally connected
- Passionate about
- community
- Advocate for safety
- Strong skills
- Communication
- Organizing
- Volunteer-raising
- Group facilitation
- Creativity
- Energetic
Seaside Tsunami Outreach Coordinator, Darci
Connor
21Tsunami-Prepared Model Village, April
2005 Balapitiya, Sri Lanka Pop 450, Casualties 12
Helicpter Landing Area
Rescue shelters
Alarm
Evacuation routes
Disabled persons
22PEOPLE-CENTREDEXERCISES, DRILLS, EDUCATION
- Government Preparedness
- Worst Case Scenarios
- Emergency Response Exercises
- Pre-Disaster Mitigation (structural,
non-structural, policy, awareness/education) - Educate highest government leaders,
utility companies, hotels and resorts,
beach lifeguards/safety officers, first
responders for evacuation and immediate aftermath - Public Preparedness
- What if Im on the beach?
- What if Im in a boat fishing?
- What to do? Where to go? What about my family?
- The roles of schools, community organizations
(social, religious, cultural, ethnic, gender, age
) - Educate to respond appropriately
23- State Evacuation Map Shows
routes for Safe Public Exit
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24Evacuation Maps Safe Routes
- Communities make maps
- Identify ALL Stakeholders
- Workshops with Local Residents
- Single Access Roads
- Congregation areas
- Walking the route
Tsunami evacuation maps locally-developed
from modeling, maps and local histories
25LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
-
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong and safe buildings assist
- Stakeholder Coordination essential
- High-level advocacy sustains
26Multi-purpose Evacuation ShelterNishiki Tower,
Mie Prefecture, Japan
27Bangladesh Cyclone Shelter Deep pile
foundations with breakaway shear walls
Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Shelter
28Tsunami Model Village-2 PERALIYA, SRI
LANKA PROPOSED COMMUNITY CENTER AS A TSUNAMI
SHELTER Casualties train 1500 village-
400/1200 Geol Survey Mines Bureau Dept of
Meteorology
4 m
29Considering Vertical EvacuationEngineering
Structural Response to Tsunami Loading
30For Prototype Seismic-Design Buildings, consider
performance during Tsunami Loading
- Review current codes for tsunami loading
provisions - Evaluate prototype structures for
seismic/tsunami design - Review past tsunami damage
- Gosh and Fanella
- For Concrete buildings, effect of wind exposure
conditions and seismic design categories.
31Tsunami Force ConsiderationsWhich are important
which are not
- Hydraulic Lateral Forces
- full structure
- individual elements
- Impact Force
- floating debris
- Buoyancy Force
- Scour
32Indian Ocean Tsunami Visual observations to
validate modeled engineering results
- Wave breaks offshore (e.g., laminar flooding)
- Non-structural elements should beak away to allow
water flow through ground floor - 3. Vertical evacuation provides safety
patong_beach-1.wmv
33Research to ApplicationEngineering Structural
Response to Tsunami Loading - 2005
- Vertical evacuation in multi-story reinforced
concrete (and structural steel) buildings may be
appropriate policy for - All near-source tsunamis
- Remote-source tsunamis
in densely populated
areas where horizontal
evacuation is not feasible - Research still needed
before policy adoption
Vertical evacuation, Waikiki, Hawaii, 1994
34 Checklist for Implementation Community
Awareness, Preparedness, Education
- Pilot community preparedness programmes
- Cooperation - natl / local govt /local - intl
NGOs. - Replicate nationally
- Incorporate traditional knowledge
- National Disaster Preparedness Day
- Tsunami Awareness Month to reinforce training
- Media training - routine press conf, interviews,
and special reports - Coastal zone mgt policy (inundation zones
non-siting of lifeline / critical facilities) - Strengthen built environment - EQ shaking and
tsunami flooding (building codes, engineering - Coastal vegetative barriers / hard
countermeasures - Tsunami preparedness (all-hazards) in schools
35LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
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37 INTERNATIONAL TSUNAMI HAZARD MITIGATION
WARNING CENTER OPERATORS Pacific, Indian Ocean,
Mediterranean
Tsunami Warning Centers
GLOBAL REGIONAL NATIONAL
GOVT, NGO EMERGENCY MANAGERS Civil Defense Local
Authorities
TSUNAMI SCIENTISTS University and Govt
Researchers
Comprehensive Tsunami Risk Reduction
Stakeholders build Tsunami Resilient Community
38SOCIAL SCIENCE PERPSECTIVES FROM AWARENESS TO
PREPAREDNESS COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
- Level of preparation and readiness to act
sensitive to several moderating variables - Perceived responsibility - is it govt or is it
you? - Response efficiency - are you ready?
- Sense of community - are your neighbors
important? - The timing of the next tsunami or the last
tsunami
IGNS
39LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
40High Level Advocacy
- Disasters and Sustainable Development
- Benefits of Whole-of-Government Approach
- Public Safety and Risk Management
- Benefits of Mainstreaming Risk Management
- Implementing CHARM
(comprehensive hazard
assessment and risk
management)
Cristelle Pratt, SOPAC Director, June, 2005
41Strengthening the DMOs
- Relevant National Disaster Reduction Plans and
Public Awareness programmes in place - Closer links to national planning
- Clear job descriptions / accountabilities
Relevant skills
and qualifications Succession planning
Technological support - Community-based empowerment
- Understanding Hazards, Accepting your risk
tolerance !
Cristelle Pratt, SOPAC Director, June, 2005
42LESSONS LEARNED Early Warning System Saves Lives
- Proper Instruments detect early
- Warning informs
- Awareness enables
- Preparedness guides
- Planning means faster response
- Strong buildings and safe structures assist
- Stakeholder Coordination facilitates
- High-level advocacy sustains
43Keys to System Effectiveness People drive All
Hazards Response
- Warning System Design
- Feedback Loop
- is it working if not, why?
- Scientist Public interaction
- Response System should be
- Robust, Rapid
- Well-organized
- Appropriate for country
- Community Issues
- Suffer main impact
- Spec issues-women, poverty
- Each community unique
- They are the first responders
- Empowerment, risk tolerance
OFDA, USA
44THANK YOU
International Tsunami Information
Centre Honolulu, Hawaii ioc.unesco.org/itsu www.t
sunamiwave.info