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590 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 259 Kihei, Maui, Hawaii 96753 http://www.pdc.org - [email protected] 1-808-891-7939 - 1-808-891-0526 (Fax) Pacific Disaster Center An Asia Pacific Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas http://atlas.pdc.org Chris Chiesa Director, Data and Information Resources Division Pacific Disaster Center [email protected]
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590 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 259Kihei, Maui, Hawaii 96753

http://www.pdc.org - [email protected] - 1-808-891-0526 (Fax)

Pacific Disaster Center

An Asia Pacific Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas

http://atlas.pdc.org

Chris Chiesa Director, Data and Information Resources Division

Pacific Disaster Center

[email protected]

Asia Pacific Natural Hazards Atlas

Web-based, Geospatial Information Application Supporting Regional Hazard and Vulnerability Assessments

Natural Hazards• Tropical Storms• Wildfires• Earthquakes• Tsunamis• Volcanoes•Floods

Risk Exposure• People• Infrastructure

http://atlas.pdc.org

Atlas Applications

• What hazards are likely to occur in this region, and with what frequency and intensity?

• Where are current hazard events and what is their extent?

• How many people can be, or are, affected?• What will be the impacts on the infrastructure

of the region?

Other Critical Information Layers

Hazard Intensity Zones– Tropical Storms– Earthquakes– Volcanoes

Vulnerable Resources– Population Density– Transportation Networks

• Roads• Railroads• Airports

Baseline Cartography– Topography/Bathymetry– Populated Places– Administrative Geography– Land Cover

http://atlas.pdc.org

Active Tropical Storms

Historical Tropical Storms

Tropical Storms

Active– Current tropical storms in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS)

• Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

– Storm positions (current / forecast) updated every 6 hours

Historical– 1945-2004 for the Western, Eastern, and Southern Pacific

Ocean and Indian Ocean regions• JTWC• Unisys Corp.• University of Hawaii (UH)

– Only storms that were classified above a tropical depression in strength (wind speeds > 30mph) for 2 or more 6 hour periods

Earthquakes

Earthquakes

Recent– Location, magnitude, depth and date of the last 48 hours

of worldwide earthquakes (Richter magnitude > 2.0)• US Geological Survey's (USGS) National Earthquake

Information Center (NEIC)

– Updated approximately every 15 minutes.

Historical– Date and magnitude of more than 5,000 destructive

earthquakes• NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

– Catalog of Significant Earthquakes» 2150 B.C. to the present

- moderate damage (approximately $1 million or more)- 10 or more deaths

- magnitude 7.5 or greater

– Database for Instrumentally Recorded Earthquakes- 1962 to present- Richter magnitude > 4.5

Volcanoes

Volcanoes

Active– Location and status of approximately 124 active

volcanoes around the world• Southwest Volcano Research Center

– Level 1 = Volcano is restless, eruption may occur– Level 2 – 4 = Volcano is in eruption or eruption may occur at any

time– Level 5 = Significant eruption is occurring or explosive eruption is

expected at any time.

– Updated twice a day.

Historical– Location of approximately 1500 active volcanoes and

their eruptions within past 10,000 years• Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program

– Volcanoes of the World, Simkin and Siebert.

Wildfires

Wildfires

Recent Hotspots– Location, duration, size and intensity of “thermal anomalies”

including: wildfires, oil/gas refineries and volcanic activity• 1-km Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

derived• Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at the University

of Hawaii (UH)– Additional spectral processing and spatial clustering

– Weekly summary; Updated every six hours.

Historical Large Wildfires– Location, duration, size and intensity of historically large

wildfires• Large wildfires (>2000 acres in size) from March 2000 – October 2004• Derived from UH’s HIGP MODIS thermal anomalies database

Hawaii Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas

Hawaii Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas

Local level data:• Hawaii natural hazards

and R & V data including:• Lava flows, FEMA flood

zones, hazardous dams• Emergency services

including:• Police and fire stations,

hospitals, shelters• Public facilities including:

• Schools, hotels, banks• Transportation networks

including:• Airports, seaports,

bridges• Elevation data including:

• Shaded reliefs, 500 foot contours

• Imagery including:• Cloud-free Landsat, aerial

photography

Still to come in Atlas 2.0

Analysis & Functional Enhancements– Regional Reporter Tool using Spatial

Query Server • Provides one-click “drill down” of multiple data

layers

– Additional hazard query tools– Additional Map Services

• SE Asia in collaboration with ADPC

Tsunami Response Map Viewer

http://www.pdc.org/tsunami


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