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Ocosta Elementary School in Westport, Washington, designed for vertical evacuation from tsunami hazard. In areas where horizontal evacuation to higher ground is impossible, vertical evacuation to higher areas of a structure may be a way to shelter individuals from the surge of water, several meters high, that can follow an earthquake in coastal areas.
The First World Conference on Natural Disasters in Yokohama, Japan from May 23 to 27, 1994, adopted the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation and its Plan of Action, endorsed by the UN General Assembly in 1994. It was the main outcome of the mid-term review of the ...
After close to fifty years of experience coordinating the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS), IOC-UNESCO is leading a global effort to establish ocean-based tsunami warning systems as part of an overall multi-hazard disaster reduction strategy. The IOC Tsunami Unit works with Member States, together with other UN agencies and NGOs, to build ...
However, the Master Plan was explicit in the need for: “Mitigation and preparedness in the event of future natural disasters was highlighted as integral to the reconstruction”. [6] [7] It was the core policies and broad strategies in the Master Plan that enabled the thinking to establish the concept of BBB.
This strategy contains 4 steps: organise resources, assess risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement plans. [15] These steps are broad, as they are designed to be applied to a wide variety of hazards. FEMA also has more specific policy plans, such as their Hazard Mitigation Field Book (HMFB) on Roadways.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
A mobile emergency operations center, in this case operated by the Air National Guard. Emergency management (also disaster management) is a science and a system charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. [1]
[9] [10] The tsunami warning was issued within 3 minutes with the most serious rating on its warning scale during the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami; it was rated as a "major tsunami", being at least 3 m (9.8 ft) high. [10] [11] An improved system was unveiled on March 7, 2013, following the 2011 disaster to better assess imminent tsunamis.