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LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS NEW ZEALAND PART 3B: EARTHQUAKES Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA.

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2 LESSONS LEARNED FROM PAST NOTABLE DISASTERS NEW ZEALAND PART 3B: EARTHQUAKES Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA

3 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

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

5 Natural Phenomena that Cause Disasters Planet Earth’s Restlessness Causes Movement of Tectonic Plates:  Earthquakes

6 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

7 PHILIPPINO SEISMOLOGIST: LOOKS AT SEISMOGRAMS IN MANILA

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

9 THE 4.1-KM DEPTH MADE THIS EARTHQUAKE MORE DAMAGING

10 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.

11 INTENSITY MAP: CHRISTCHURCH

12 CHRISTCHURCH CITY CENTRE: “A WAR ZONE”

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15 PYNE GOULD GUINESS BUILDING: COLLAPSED

16 COLLAPSED BUILDING; CHRISTCHURCH

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

18 DAMAGE: CHRISTCHURCH CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL

19 COLLAPSE: A BAPTIST CHURCH

20 CRUSHED CARS: CHRISTCHURCH

21 BARACADED BUILDING; CHRISTCHURCH

22 INTERIOR CONTENTS

23 RAIL LINES

24 LANDSLIDE

25 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.

26 SEARCH AND RESCUE WORKERS

27 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.

28 40 MILLION TON ICE CHUNK DISLODGED FROM TASMAN GLACIER

29 DISLODGED ICE IN TASMAN LAKE

30 CHRISTCHURCH SUBURB, BEXLEY, FLOODED

31 ECONOMIC IMPACT The New Zealand Government's Treasury on Sunday, March 6 th released 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).

32 NEW ZEALAND’S 2011 ECONOMIC GROWTH ---CUT IN HALF

33 POLICY ADOPTION RISK ASSESSMENT VULNERABILITYVULNERABILITY EXPOSUREEXPOSURE EVENTEVENT POLICY ASSESSMENT COSTCOST BENEFITBENEFIT CONSEQUENCESCONSEQUENCES TIME FOR A NEW EARTHQUAKE SCENARIO AND A POLICY REVIEW: TOWARDS EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RESILIENCE EARTH- QUAKES EXPECTED LOSS


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