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Conference Chairman:
Councilman Greig Smith
Platinum Sponsor
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
- Megacities and Earthquakes: an L.A. Story
- Life Line Security
- Methods of Preparedness
- Land Use Planning in a Seismic City
- Legislative Process
- How to Deal with What You Have
- Earthquake Technology in Disaster Management
- Creating the Great ShakeOut
Thursday, November 13, 2008
- Science of the ShakeOut
- Field trips to various locations to experience the Great Southern California ShakeOut
- “Share Fair” to exchange information with the various cities present
- Earthquake Technology: Early Warning & Prediction
- Gala Dinner
Friday, November 14, 2008
- Communicating Messages of Preparedness
- Economic & Business Recovery
- Community Resiliency
- Medical Response & recovery
- Disaster Risk Financing
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Session 1D: Technologies for Disaster Management
As technology becomes more sophisticated, its application to disaster management becomes increasingly more useful and productive. Technology can be used to plan for risks or respond to disasters in an efficient manner to impact recovery effectively with the resources at hand.
Moderator: Dr. Keith Porter, University of Colorado, Presentation
Christopher Chiesa, Pacific Disaster Center, Presentation
Dr. Eduardo Reinoso, CEO, ERN (Evaluación de Riesgos Naturales), Presentation
Dr. David Wald, US Geological Survey, Presentation
Prof. Luis Yamin, U. de los Andes, Bogotá, Columbia, Presentation
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Applications of Geospatial Information Technology Supporting Disaster Early Warning and Notification
Christopher Chiesa, Chief Information Officer, Pacific Disaster Center
Since 1996, the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) has provided solutions to disaster management and humanitarian assistance organizations throughout the Asia Pacific region and around the globe. Our mission is to provide applied information, science and technology to help reduce disaster risks and impacts to peoples’ lives and property.
From our headquarters on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the Center offers products and services to local, national and international disaster managers through consultancy, risk and vulnerability assessments, early warning systems, integrated risk management platforms, and custom applications. PDC also helps build client capabilities through workshops and training.
Mr. Chiesa will provide an overview of PDC’s DiasterAWARE application, a multi-hazard disaster management decision support system. DisasterAWARE was recently deployed at the National Disaster Warning Center, Bangkok, Thailand, to provide timely notification of seismic events and early warning for ensuing tsunamis, supporting effective disaster management decision support at national and local levels. The Hawaii version of DisasterAWARE, which additionally supports hurricane early warning and all-hazards information sharing, will also be illustrated.
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Earthquake scenarios and real time damage by building level
by Eduardo Reinoso
Co-authors Miguel Jaimes, Francisco Martínez
We present a methodology to compute the seismic risk of individual buildings and portfolios based on a full probability analysis. First, all the seismic sources that affect the city are taken into account considering the attenuation and site effects. Vulnerability functions obtained for different structural types, number of stories, year of construction, previous damage, plant and elevation irregularities, pounding and differential settlement, among others, allow us to compute and differentiate individual risks. Building information such as location, number of stories, use and year of construction has been obtained with local government databases. More refined structural information has been gathered thru visual and photographic engineering inspections for the most important buildings. For Mexico City this methodology has been applied to obtain near real time loss assessment and send warnings to authorities. Since the methodology works with geographical information it is possible to obtain results and GIS maps in many ways. We have obtained for Mexico City and Managua damage scenarios where it is possible to identify buildings and areas of high risk where mitigation measures may be applied, or where emergency units should be close or ready to attend in case of that specific scenario. |
Decision-Making Tools for Pre-earthquake Mitigation and Post-earthquake Response
by David Wald
The U.S. Geological Survey, under the auspices of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS), is continuing to develop new and improved tools for post-earthquake information and response. Existing tools range from passive, Web-based post-earthquake information requiring no pre-event configuration. to sophisticated damage-assessment and active notification systems (i.e., ShakeCast) that require pre-event set up, IT expertise, and knowledge of one’s inventorys’ vulnerabilities.
Customizable earthquake notifications are provided with ENS (Earthquake Notificaion Service), adding active alerting to rapid earthquake information products available via Web Pages. In addition, building off the ShakeMap system, we describe ShakeCast, a rapid impact assessment system for critical lifeline utilities upon which we rely in the post-disaster environment. ShakeCast is a fully automated system for receiving real and scenario earthquake ShakeMap files, auto-launching of post-download processing scripts, and delivering notifications based on likely facility damage states derived from ShakeMap shaking parameters.
The new PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response), automatically identifies earthquakes that will be of societal importance, well in advance of ground-truth or news accounts, and now plays a primary role, alerting for global earthquake disasters. We will describe how first responders, critical lifeline utilities, other companies, the media, and individuals can use these enhanced tools for making decisions about earthquake planning and response. |
Generating Earthquake Damage Scenarios for Emergency Planning and Response
by Luis E. Yamin
Co-authors Omar Cardona, Mario Ordaz, Gabriel Bernal
Disaster risk management requires analytical tools in order to generate the required information needed to either conform an emergency planning strategy or an emergency response plan. Earthquake damage scenarios for different return period events or for previous real events where seismic records are available, is the base for a rational and consistent development of the information required. Analytical models in combination with seismic ground response measurements allow the development of a risk evaluation procedure that can be used for both emergency planning and immediate response after the event. The conceptual basis for the development of such an analytical tool is presented as well as the different considerations needs to implement a practical system that generates risk maps within minutes after the occurrence of a significative event in an urban area. Examples of such applications for the city of Bogotá and Manizales in Colombia are presented and discussed. Recommendations for improving the system and for future enhanced developments are established. |
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