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Earthquake, Severe Weather and Disaster Preparedness

Earthquake, Severe Weather and Disaster Preparedness. HOW TO: Prepare You and Your Family Network for a Regional Disaster. Brought to you by: UW Emergency Management. WHY DO DISASTERS HAPPEN?. WHY SHOULD I CARE?. Puget Sound Region is Earthquake Country.

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Earthquake, Severe Weather and Disaster Preparedness

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  1. Earthquake, Severe Weather and Disaster Preparedness • HOW TO: • Prepare You and Your Family Network for a Regional Disaster Brought to you by: UW Emergency Management

  2. WHY DO DISASTERS HAPPEN?

  3. WHY SHOULD I CARE? Puget Sound Region is Earthquake Country

  4. Nisqually Earthquake, February 28, 2001

  5. Class Objectives • Overview of UW Emergency Management Division • Understand Earthquake and other Natural and Weather Risks in the Puget Sound Area • Learn about the steps you can take for Personal and Family Emergency Preparedness for All Hazards • Raise awareness about the UW Campus Resources Available to you

  6. What is Emergency Management? An organized effort to: • Mitigateagainst • Prepare for • Respond to • Recoverfrom Any Event that threatens to, or actually does, inflict injury on people or damage to property.

  7. Four phases of Emergency Management • Preparedness Response • Mitigation Recovery

  8. Emergency Management Program at UW • Each person must take the lead before, during and after an emergency or disaster. Emergency management programs must be in place in every UW operating unit and department to: • To protect the population,propertyand the environment • To return our campus community to normal as quickly as possible after an event

  9. UWEM Services • Technical Assistance • Presentations & Workshops • Grant Assistance • Training Resources • Emergency Information • Disaster Exercises • Emergency Coordination • How Do We Staff EM at the UW??

  10. Emergency Coordinationon Campus Large-Scale Emergency Event/ Disaster Response • First responders dispatched to the scene: • Seattle Fire & Emergency Medical Services • UW Police Department • Environmental Health & Safety • Facilities Services UW EOC provides feedback to First Responders UWEM Response First Responders report back to the Emergency Operations Center President’s Emergency Policy Council is informed Activation of UW Emergency Operations Center

  11. Three Source Zones in Washington

  12. Scenario for a Magnitude 6.7 Earthquake on the Seattle Fault • Significant impacts on the Puget Sound Region include: • Property damage and economic loss Approx. $33 billion) – assumes no after shocks! • Deaths – More than 1,600 • Injuries – More than 24,000 • Buildings Destroyed – About 9,700 • Buildings severely damaged and unsafe to occupy – More than 29,000 • Buildings moderately damaged whose use is restricted – About 154,5000 • Fires – About 130, damaging nearly a half-billion dollars in property This is our Katrina

  13. Seattle Fault – Thrust or reverse Fault After Before

  14. Magnitudeis a number that characterizes the relative size of earthquakes & is proportional to energy released

  15. Peak Ground Acceleration

  16. Ground Motion

  17. Video of Contents Damage of a Typical Home Office on a "Shake Table"

  18. Ground Motion – Surface Waves Love Wave Rayleigh Wave

  19. Other Seismic Hazards • Surface Rupture

  20. Other Seismic Hazards • Liquefaction

  21. Other Seismic Hazards • Seiche

  22. Other Seismic Hazards • Tsunami http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/Mov/andr1.mov

  23. Other Seismic Hazards • Landslide

  24. Earthquake Information • Recent Earthquake Maps • http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs • Shake Maps • http://earthquake.usgs.gov/shakemap/ • “Did you feel it?” – Community Created Shake map • http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake

  25. TRUE OR FALSECalifornia has the most earthquakes in the United States • False – Alaska has the most. • California has the most damaging earthquakes Loma Prieta, 1989

  26. TRUE OR FALSEEarthquakes don’t kill people, buildings and their contents do. TRUE # 1 reason for death and injury is from falling objects and failures of manmade or natural structures

  27. What’s Wrong with thisPicture?

  28. TRUE OR FALSEYou can’t plan ahead for an earthquake. False There are plenty of things you can do right now to prepare Come on, Show me what you can do!

  29. What Should I Do?

  30. #1 Identify Potential Hazards in Your Home and Begin to fix them #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • MOST IMPORTANT!!– Brace Hot Water Heater • Kitchen – Place Child proof latches on Cabinets & Gas appliances should have flexible connectors. • Electronics – Strap them down. • Tabletops objects – Collectibles, china, pottery objects, and lamps can become deadly projectiles • Hanging objects – Use Closed hooks for mirrors, pictures, etc. • Furniture - Secure the tops of all top-heavy furniture, such as bookcases and file cabinets, to a wall. Store heavy items and breakables on lower shelves.

  31. Video clip from the 6.9m Kobe Earthquake

  32. #2 Create Disaster Plan #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • Get together with family or housemates to plan • Plan for the risk of fire, lack of utilities and basic services, and aftershocks • Create a Family communication plan www.washington.edu/emergency/prepare

  33. Family Network Communication Plan Who is in your family network? Children Spouse/Partner Pets Siblings/ Others Elderly/Disabled

  34. Family NetworkCommunication Plan #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • Where are they located when you are at work? • School • Downtown • Bellevue or another county

  35. Family NetworkCommunication Plan #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • Identify two meeting places (outside home and outside neighborhood)

  36. Family NetworkCommunication Plan #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • Identify your out-of-area-phone contact (100 miles + away) Oh, I hope they’re ok! …..Like Grandma in Nebraska

  37. #3 Create a Disaster Supply Kit #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • Everyone should have personal disaster supplies kits (5 + days) • Keep them where you spend the most time (Home, Car, Work) • Think mobility. Backpack or small bags are best. Also plastic bins or garbage cans on wheels.

  38. PREPARE FOR ALL HAZARDS #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6

  39. #4 Identify My home’s potential weaknesses and begin to fix them #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6

  40. Structural Damage #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 The wood frame was not well-anchored nor braced on its foundation.

  41. Unreinforced Masonry Damage Brick, stone and concrete masonry block walls are easily damaged in earthquakes unless they are reinforced with steel.

  42. A 3-foot fall from grace The front steps show the former level of the first floor before the unbraced cripple walls toppled over and "let the family down."

  43. Apartment and condominium buildings are also at risk A common problem with condominium and apartment buildings is a weak first floor level. The problem is the large openings in the ground floor walls, such as garage door openings or open parking bays. These walls are collapse-prone in strong earthquakes and should be strengthened.

  44. Understand your Earthquake Risk

  45. TRUE OR FALSE – During an earthquake you should head for the doorway. False • YOU ARE SAFER PRACTICING THE “DROP, COVER, AND HOLD” maneuver under a sturdy piece of furniture like a strong desk or table. • Triangle of Life Theory 

  46. #5 When it ShakesDROP, COVER & HOLD #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • Indoors • In bed • In high-rise • Outdoors • Driving • In Stadium or Theater • Near the beach

  47. #6 After the shaking stops #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 • First take care of your own situation • Check for injuries (Take a first aid class) • ABCs • Treat for Shock • Spinal injury • Check for damage • Fire • Gas leak • Damaged Electrical wiring • Downed Utility lines • Fallen objects • Spills • Damaged Masonry

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