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PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1

PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1. The Pacific Disaster Center’s Automated Tsunami Alert System for Hawaii with Applications for other Tsunami-prone Pacific Islands and Nations Chris Chiesa / Stan Goosby / Jim Buika Pacific Disaster Center. PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1.

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PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1

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  1. PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1 The Pacific Disaster Center’s Automated Tsunami Alert System for Hawaii with Applications for other Tsunami-prone Pacific Islands and Nations Chris Chiesa / Stan Goosby / Jim Buika Pacific Disaster Center

  2. PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1 Objectives • Overview of the PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System Components • Discuss Deployment Issues/Considerations for regions outside of Hawaii

  3. Tsunami Warnings are Critical to Saving Lives Alaska Earthquake Travel Time: 3-to-5 hours to Japan 5 hours to Hawaiian Islands 6-to-7 hours to US West Coast

  4. Tsunami Travel Time for Indian Ocean Tsunami, 26 Dec 2004

  5. Overview 1 System Overview Pacific Disaster Center PDC Private Website Emergency Management Operations System (EMOPS) Output Input Automated Tsunami Alert System Output MobileTelecommunications Switching Office Automated Notification – Pager, Cell Phones & Email

  6. Overview (inputs) Input to Automated Tsunami Alert System PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System Tsunami Bulletin Earthquake Dedicated Communications Line Pacific Ocean Earthquake M>7.5 1. Pager Notifications 2. Automated travel map 3. Post to EM web site 1. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center 2. Alaska Tsunami Warning Center

  7. Message Processor Automated Processes Reaching Emergency Officials Automated Process Emergency Officials PDC Text Messaging to Pagers and Cell Phones Automated Paging Automated Email PDC Subscribers Receive Tsunami Bulletin 20 Latest Messages Posted to PDC Website Extracts Data From Tsunami Bulletin Tsunami Travel Time Model Posted to PDC Website

  8. EMOPS: 20 Latest Messages Messages Automatically Posted to PDC Private Website: Emergency Management Operations System (EMOPS)

  9. System Output to PDC EMOPS Web Page PDC Tsunami Alert Model Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Bulletin (input) Time of Arrival – Displayed by Time (output) Time of Arrival – Displayed by Name (output)

  10. Tsunami Bulletin (input to system) Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Bulletin

  11. Tsunami Arrival Time by Time Time of Arrival – Displayed by Time

  12. Tsunami Arrival Time by Name Time of Arrival – Displayed by Name

  13. Tsunami Travel Time, 1 Tsunami Travel Time Tsunami Travel Time Map Earthquake Epicenter Hawaiian Islands

  14. PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1 Deployment Issues Beyond Hawaii • Technical & Logistical Issues • Data capture issues • Seismic network, open ocean buoys, etc. (inputs) • System deployment, operation and maintenance (processing) • Broadcasting of warnings (warnings) • Institutional Issues • Develop capacity to interpret and respond to warnings • Regional, national, local levels • Exercises • Develop mechanisms to widely disseminate/broadcast warnings to public • Establish tsunami evacuation zones, routes, etc. • Public awareness program

  15. Tsunami Evacuation Maps (Hawaii)

  16. PDC Automated Tsunami Alert System, 1 Contact Information • Chris Chiesa, Sr. Manager, Data and Information Resource; cchiesa@pdc.org • Stan Goosby, Chief Scientist; sgoosby@pdc.org • Jim Buika, Sr. Manager, Customer Applications Support and Training; jbuika@pdc.org • Pacific Disaster Center • 590 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 259 • Kihei, Hawaii 96753 USA • 1-808-891-0525 • 1-808-891-0526 fax • www.pdc.org

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