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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
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
