1 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva Common Alerting Protocol WIS CAP Implementers Workshop 9-10 December 2008 Dr. Tom De Groeve European Commission Joint Research Center Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen Support to External Security (Critech)

2 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva System for international disaster response community – Complimentary with existing information systems – Information gap in the initial response phase Not for public warning GDACS: What and Why? Main activities – Monitoring sudden onset disasters  earthquakes, volcanoes, cyclones, floods – Impact calculation – Alerting of subscribers  SMS, fax, , RSS – Platform for information exchange  Between donors, responders, affected governments – Other coordination services  Satellite images, maps, secondary risks, etc. Main partners – United Nations and European Commission

3 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva Early warning and response challenges Information needs in a sudden-onset disaster Tasks – Humanitarian donors (e.g. ECHO)  Financial decision on humanitarian aid  Coordination with other donors – First responders (e.g. S&R, Local Authorities)  Planning of response, preparing teams for missions  Coordination with other international and national responders ( United Nations OCHA ) – Reconstruction  Damage assessment  Financial decision on aid and reconstruction programmes What are the needs?? What is the damage?? Who will respond?? Is it a disaster?? How many people?? What is offered?? time What is needed now?? Did something happen?

4 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva Early warning and response information Information needs in a sudden-onset disaster (Geographic) Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management – Early warning and alert tools  Sensors, satellites  Modelling  Consequence analysis  Information collection – Collaboration tools:  Web portals  Knowledge management and sharing  Information collection, conversion, integration – Assessment tools  Very high resolution satellite imagery data mining  Field data collection tools What are the needs?? What is the damage?? Who will respond?? Is it a disaster?? How many people?? What is offered?? time What is needed now?? Did something happen?

5 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva GDACS The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System is a – disaster alerting service for international response  Fast and reliable multi-hazard alert service Earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, Floods and Volcanic eruptions  Evaluation of potential humanitarian impact  Early situation report – coordination tool for international response  Automatic information collection  Expert forum  Organized and moderated data collection – one-stop shop in the early response phase of sudden-onset disasters

6 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva 12 May 2008, 6:41 UTC – 14 minutes after earthquake – s, 2700 SMSs and 100 faxes sent to first responders globally – CAP, RSS, KML and audio feed online – Red earthquake alert : “high likelihood of a disaster, with need for international assistance” Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

7 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva Cyclone category I No people affected Cyclone category IV 7 million people with high winds 1.8 million in storm surge zone

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9 Disaste r Level II Alert Disaste r Level I Alert Start of coordi- nation GDACS automatic and manual event analysis Event Alerts Volcano Monitoring Networks Flood Watch Networks Earthquake Observation Networks Trop. Cyclone Observation Networks Automatic Evaluation of scale of disaster Geographical, Socio- economic, population data Alert Manual Evaluation of scale of disaster Coordination Eye witness and information from Local Government, IFRC, ECHO, NGO Models CAP

10 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva Example: China earthquake, Chengdu Mon 12 May 2008, 6:27 UTC 01:27 New York  night 08:27 Brussels  new shift 13:27 local time 15:27 Tokyo 22:27 (Sunday) LA  night Magnitude: 7.9M (very strong) Depth: 10km (shallow) Several strong aftershocks Location 94km from Chengdu 9.7 million people within 100km 30 million people within 200km Mountainous area landslides, hydro-dams GDACS system (times relative to event) 13min Detection of earthquake through USGS 14min GDACS Red Alert 14min GDACS report published on-line 14-19min alert sent to 4500 users 19-53min SMS alert sent to 2700 users 30min GLIDE number created  info collection 53-56min Fax alert sent to 100 users

11 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva Example: China earthquake, Chengdu GDACS system (times relative to event) ~1h GDACS Virtual OSOCC topic created 1h20 UNDAC Alert Message 9h Media reports >1000 killed 1 st day 1 st IFRC Situation Report 2 nd day First OCHA Situation Report 18 May First satellite based damage map

12 WIS CAP Implementers Workshop, 9-10 Dec 2008, WMO Geneva GDACS’s role in relief coordination System for international disaster response community – Complimentary with existing information systems – Information gap in the initial response phase Partnerships – United Nations OCHA, UNOSAT, JLS, WFP, UNEP, HABITAT – Scientific organisations  Earthquakes USGS NEIC, EMSC, GEOFON, INGV, EMERCOM, ESRC, Russian Academy of Sciences, WAPMERR  Tropical cyclones Pacific Disaster Centre, University of Hawaii, Tropical Storm Risk  Floods Dartmouth Flood Observatory  Volcanic eruptions Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, IVRC  Tsunamis Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre CAP profile(s)