2011’s DISASTERS ADD TO THE GLOBAL BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE ON DISASTER RESILIENCE

1. 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

2. 2011’S DISASTERS TESTED THE RESILIENCE OF MANY COUNTRIES

3. 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), - - -

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. DISASTER RESILIENCE IS NOT A SOLUTION ON THE BLACK-BOARD

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 2011’s NOTABLE DISASTERS AND NEAR-DISASTERS

11. PLANS FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE - Perspectives On Science, Policy, And EDUC.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. NOVO FRIBURGO: DEBRIS

15. 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

16. MONSTER WINTER STORM (FLORIDA IS LOWER RIGHT): FEB 1

17. CYCLONE YASI STRIKES NORTHERN QUEENSLAND STATE, AUSTRALIA CAT 5 monster storm makes landfall with winds gusting to 300 km/hr FEBRUARY 2-3, 2011

18. CYCLONE YASI: A TROPICAL DISTURBANCE ON JANUARY 25

19. 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

20. WILDFIRE IN TEXAS PANHANDLE Billowing smoke caused by a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle near Borger, Texas, Sunday, March 12, 2006.

21. 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

22. 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

23. TSUNAMI WAVE PATH

24. PASSENGERS STRANDED: SENDAI STATION

25. FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR FACILITY HAD 3 FAILURES

26. DEVASTATING LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES INDUCED BY HEAVY RAIN 22 MINERS TRAPPED, BUT ONLY 3 DEATHS 2:30 am, GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011

27. DEVASTATING LANDSLIDE IN THE PHILIPPINES

28. SEARCH AND RESCUE

29. 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

30. TUSCALOOSA, AL: 15TH STREET DAMAGE; APRIL 27, 2011

31. SAVING DOWNSTREAM CITIES AND REFINERIES ISTHE GOAL AS MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRESTS IN MEMPHIS AND FLOOD WATERS MOVE SOUTHWARD MONDAY, MAY 9, 2011

32. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER LOOKING LIKE AN OCEANM NOT A RIVER: MAY 9

33. WORST SINGLE TORNADO SINCE 1953 STRIKES JOPLIN, MISSOURI REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER TAKES A DIRECT HIT 116 DEATHS; MORE LIKELY SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2011

34. WARNING SYSTEMS • Tornado sirens blared, giving residents10 to 17 minutes of warning; however, rain and hail may have drowned out the sirens.

35. THE STORM SYSTEM AT 6:20 PM SATURDAY, MAY 21: TOPEKA, KS

36. EARLY SUNDAY MORNING: BAD WEATHER

37. 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, ---

38. CONTINUED: ---Shaken residents roaming streets in search of missing family members, fires from gas leaks burning across town, and more violent weather looming.

39. ST JOHNS REGIONAL MEDICAL CEN-TER TAKES DIRECT HIT: JOPLIN, MO

40. HEAVY DAMAGE ALONG ½ MILE-WIDE - 6 MILE LONG PATH

41. RECORD FLOODING IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA:MUDSLIDES EXACERBATE DISASTER IN S KOREA SHARP CONTRAST IN INFORMATION TUESDAY, JULY 20 - THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011

42. 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

43. NORTH KOREA: SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2011

44. SOUTH KOREA: 100,000 SOLDIERS MOBILIZED FOR SEARCH/RESCUE

45. FLOODING IN BANKOK, THAILAND AREAWorst flooding in 50 YearsJULY - OCTOBER, 2011

46. OVER 370 DEAD AND LOSSES IN EXCESS OF $6 BILLION FROM PROLONGED FLOODING

47. BANGKOK: A FLOODED BEAUTY SALON

48. SANDBAGGING: CHAO PRAYA RIVER

49. IRENE: A $7 BILLION DISASTERNinth Storm andthe First Hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic Basin Storm Season August 21 to August 30 2011

50. AUG 28: FORECAST OF IRENE’S EXIT