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LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS NEW ZEALAND PART 3B: EARTHQUAKES

LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS NEW ZEALAND PART 3B: EARTHQUAKES. Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA . NEW ZEALAND’S NEXT DAMAGING EARTHQUAKE WAS INEVITABLE.

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS NEW ZEALAND PART 3B: EARTHQUAKES

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  1. LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERSNEW ZEALANDPART 3B: EARTHQUAKES Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA 

  2. NEW ZEALAND’S NEXT DAMAGING EARTHQUAKE WAS INEVITABLE • ---BUT, NEW ZEALANDERS DIDN’T EXPECT A SECOND REMINDER OF THE IMPORTANCE OF EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RESILIENCE • SO SOON--- • ON FEB. 21, 2011

  3. NATURAL HAZARDS THAT HAVE CAUSED DISASTERS IN NEW ZEALAND FLOODS GOAL: PROTECT PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES WINDSTORMS EARTHQUAKES HIGH BENEFIT/COST PROGRAMS FOR BECOMING DISASTER RESILIENT VOLCANOES ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

  4. Natural Phenomena that Cause Disasters Planet Earth’s Restlessness Causes Movement of Tectonic Plates: • Earthquakes

  5. SECOND DAMAGING EARTHQUAKE STRIKES CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND A SHALLOW (4.1 KM), M6.3 QUAKE LOCATED 5 KM FROM CHRISTCHURCH STRUCK AT NOON ON FEB. 21, 2011

  6. PHILIPPINO SEISMOLOGIST: LOOKS AT SEISMOGRAMS IN MANILA

  7. EPICENTRES: SEPT. 3, 2010 AND FEB 21, 2011 EARTHQUAKES

  8. THE 4.1-KM DEPTH MADE THIS EARTHQUAKE MORE DAMAGING

  9. SOCIETAL IMPACTS EXACER-BATED BY SHALLOW DEPTH • Strong ground shaking toppled tall buildings and churches on a busy weekday, killing at least 145 people, severing communication lines, and leaving the centre of the city looking like “a war zone” and unusable.

  10. INTENSITY MAP: CHRISTCHURCH

  11. CHRISTCHURCH CITY CENTRE: “A WAR ZONE”

  12. CHRISTCHURCH CITY CENTRE: “A WAR ZONE”

  13. CHRISTCHURCH CITY CENTRE: “A WAR ZONE”

  14. PYNE GOULD GUINESS BUILDING: COLLAPSED

  15. COLLAPSED BUILDING; CHRISTCHURCH

  16. TRAPPED IN RUBBLE • More than 100 people, including as many as a dozen visiting Japanese students, were trapped in the rubble.

  17. DAMAGE: CHRISTCHURCH CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL

  18. COLLAPSE: A BAPTIST CHURCH

  19. CRUSHED CARS: CHRISTCHURCH

  20. BARACADED BUILDING; CHRISTCHURCH

  21. INTERIOR CONTENTS

  22. RAIL LINES

  23. LANDSLIDE

  24. SEARCH AND RESCUE • Despite darkness and drizzling rain, rescue crews with sniffer dogs (and eventually heavy equipment) fanned out across the city in search of survivors, some of whom were sending text and phone messages from beneath the rubble.

  25. SEARCH AND RESCUE WORKERS

  26. UNUSUAL PHYSICAL IMPACTS • 40 million tons of ice were separated from Tasman Glacier located 120 mi from the epicentre, and flooding occurred in Bexley, a suburb of Christchurch.

  27. 40 MILLION TON ICE CHUNK DISLODGED FROM TASMAN GLACIER

  28. DISLODGED ICE IN TASMAN LAKE

  29. CHRISTCHURCH SUBURB, BEXLEY, FLOODED

  30. ECONOMIC IMPACT • The New Zealand Government's Treasury on Sunday,March 6threleased an estimate that February's magnitude 6.3 quake, combined with September's magnitude 7.1 temblor, would cost around 15 billion New Zealand dollars ($11 billion).

  31. NEW ZEALAND’S 2011 ECONOMIC GROWTH ---CUT IN HALF

  32. RISK ASSESSMENT • VULNERABILITY • EXPOSURE • EVENT • COST • BENEFIT EARTH-QUAKES EXPECTED LOSS POLICY ADOPTION • CONSEQUENCES POLICY ASSESSMENT TIME FOR A NEW EARTHQUAKE SCENARIO AND A POLICY REVIEW: TOWARDS EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RESILIENCE

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