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2011’s DISASTERS ADD TO THE GLOBAL BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE ON DISASTER RESILIENCE. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA. 2011’S DISASTERS TESTED THE RESILIENCE OF MANY COUNTRIES. IMPACTED NATIONS.
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2011’s DISASTERS ADD TO THE GLOBAL BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE ON DISASTER RESILIENCE Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA
IMPACTED NATIONS Japan, Chile, Australia,Indonesia,Brazil, New Zealand, North and South Korea, Turkey, Thailand, The Philippines, Australia, Mexico, The United States (Texas, Central, East Coast), - - -
2011 showed that a community’s survival depends more than ever upon its resilience (i.e., the capability to bounce back after a complex disaster)
2011’s MAIN LESSONDISASTERS OCCUR WHEN COMMUNITIES FAIL TO ADOPT REALISTIC POLICIES AND IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICES TO PUT ALL FOUR PILLARS OF RESILIENCE IN PLACE
4 PILLARS OF DISASTER RESILIENCE • HAZARD MAPS • INVENTORY • VULNERABILITY • LOCATION • BEST POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR: • PREPAREDNESS • PROTECTION • RESPONSE & RECOVERY RISK ASSESSMENT ACCEPTABLE RISK RISK UNACCEPTABLE RISK ANTICIPATORY DECISIONS YOUR COMMUNITY DATA BASES AND INFORMATION HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS
CAPACITY FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE POLICIES FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE DISASTER RESILIENCE HOW TO FAIL NO IMPLEMENTATION FACT: NO CITY CAN MOVE TOWARDS DISASTER RESILIENCE WITHOUT AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY.
PHYSICAL SCIENCES SOCIAL SCIENCE ENGINEERING SCIENCES HOW TO SUCCEED STRATEGIC GOAL: WORKING TOGETHER TO INCREASE CAPACITY IN EVERY SECTOR OF THE CITY SUCCESS: DISASTER RESILIENCE IN EVERY COMMUNITY
PLANS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE - Perspectives On Science, Policy, And EDUC.
MONSOON RAIN-TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES KILL AT LEAST 700 IN RIO DE JANEIRO STATE, BRAZIL ALTHOUGH RAINFALL IN MID-JANUARY IS COMMON, A MONTH’S RAINFALL IN 24 HOURS IS NOT JANUARY 13-20, 2011
5 MILLION BRAZILIANS LIVE IN HIGH-RISK AREAS Five million Brazilians live in 500 areas deemed at high risk for landslides and 300 areas at high risk for flooding.
MONSTER WINTER STORM IMPACTS USA’S MIDWEST AND NEW ENGLAND STATES From ice in Texas to more snow in New England FEBRUARY 1-2, 2011
CYCLONE YASI STRIKES NORTHERN QUEENSLAND STATE, AUSTRALIA CAT 5 monster storm makes landfall with winds gusting to 300 km/hr FEBRUARY 2-3, 2011
WILDFIRES RAGE OUT OF CONTROL IN WEST TEXAS AND TEXAS PANHAMDLE DROUGHT AND WIND EXACERBATE WILDFIRES, WHICH SCORCH 80,000 -100,000 ACRES MARCH 12 - APRIL 11, 2011
WILDFIRE IN TEXAS PANHANDLE Billowing smoke caused by a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle near Borger, Texas, Sunday, March 12, 2006.
M9.0 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI IMPACTS JAPAN WITH THE TSUNAMI WAVES REACHING PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES 4TH LARGEST QUAKE EVER 3 – 10 M TSUNAMI WAVES 2:46 pm MARCH 11, 2011
DISASTER RISKS FACED BY JAPAN EARTHQUAKES GOAL: REDUCE DISASTER RISK TSUNAMIS TYPHOONS DEVELOP POLICIES FOR ACTIONS HAVING HIGH BENEFIT/COST FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE FLOODS VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS LANDSLIDES
DEVASTATING LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES INDUCED BY HEAVY RAIN 22 MINERS TRAPPED, BUT ONLY 3 DEATHS 2:30 am, GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011
164 TORNADOS IN 24 HOURS IMPACT 7 SOUTHEASTERN STATESMS HIT BY EF5 AND AL BY EF4 TORNADOES OVERALL DEATH TOLL REACHES 350 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27- THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011
SAVING DOWNSTREAM CITIES AND REFINERIES ISTHE GOAL AS MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRESTS IN MEMPHIS AND FLOOD WATERS MOVE SOUTHWARD MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LOOKING LIKE AN OCEANM NOT A RIVER: MAY 9
WORST SINGLE TORNADO SINCE 1953 STRIKES JOPLIN, MISSOURI REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER TAKES A DIRECT HIT 116 DEATHS; MORE LIKELY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011
WARNING SYSTEMS • Tornado sirens blared, giving residents10 to 17 minutes of warning; however, rain and hail may have drowned out the sirens.
MAY 23: At daybreak, rescue crews were looking at piles of 2,000 damaged buildings, splintered houses and crushed cars, house after house reduced to slabs, cars crushed like soda cans, ---
CONTINUED: ---Shaken residents roaming streets in search of missing family members, fires from gas leaks burning across town, and more violent weather looming.
ST JOHNS REGIONAL MEDICAL CEN-TER TAKES DIRECT HIT: JOPLIN, MO
RECORD FLOODING IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA:MUDSLIDES EXACERBATE DISASTER IN S KOREA SHARP CONTRAST IN INFORMATION TUESDAY, JULY 20 - THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
CHRONOLOGY OF THE DISASTER • The heaviest rainfall to impact N and S Korea in a century started on Tuesday, July 20th. • The Han River, which runs through Seoul, reached its highest point just before dawn on Sunday, July 25th
FLOODING IN BANKOK, THAILAND AREAWorst flooding in 50 YearsJULY - OCTOBER, 2011
OVER 370 DEAD AND LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $6 BILLION FROM PROLONGED FLOODING
IRENE: A $7 BILLION DISASTERNinth Storm andthe First Hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic Basin Storm Season August 21 to August 30 2011