The U.S. National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program: A Successful State—Federal Partnership

Bernard, E. N.

doi:10.1007/1-4020-3607-8_1

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“…Federal assistance is provided under approximately fifty different laws and executive orders to households, businesses, farms, states, municipalities, special districts, and non-governmental organizations. (Platt 2000) It is no accident that FEMA's Strategic Plan was titled "Partnership for a Safer Future" or that FEMA entered into "Performance Partnership Agreements" with other organizations (Godschalk et al 1999, 59) or that the notion of partnership has been central to many of the programs for managing specific hazards (e.g., tsunamis, landslides, floods) or to programs dealing with cross-cutting sectoral responsibilities like hazard mitigation, disaster relief, and emergency management (Bernard 2005;Byman et al 2000;Mileti 1999, 159;National Research Council 2000, 25;National Research Council 2004). Partnerships are also central to the broad field of natural hazard insurance, especially the path-breaking National Flood Insurance Program (Changnon and Easterling 2000;Grossi and Kunreuther 2005;Kunreuther 2000;Meyer 1997), and they are considered central to any future system for the financing of recovery from megadisasters (Comerio 1998, 252).…”

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The Primacy of Partnership: Scoping a New National Disaster Recovery Policy

Mitchell

2006

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Hurricane Katrina is widely perceived as a threshold-crossing event, capable of bringing about changes in public policy comparable with those that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Headline-grabbing proposals for improving the leadership of disaster-management organizations divert attention from a task of greater importance: the nourishment of partnerships among different stakeholder groups. Such partnerships have previously been organized around common material interests. Stronger and more enduring partnerships might better be based on ideas that capture shared ambiguities of hazard, as well as material interests. Lay publics need to be engaged with contradictory concepts that exist across the full range of environmental and societal contexts in which hazards are embedded. The process of recovery from Katrina presents social scientists with an opportunity to extend inquiry and partnerships into new arenas that have the potential to sharpen intellectual understanding as well as to address needed policy reforms.

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Section: Partnershipmentioning

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The Primacy of Partnership: Scoping a New National Disaster Recovery Policy

Mitchell

2006

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…The source segments are arranged in parallel rows situated along the earth's major subduction zones as in Wei et al (2008). Wave propagation patterns originating from these unit sources are linearly combined to construct more complicated sources (Bernard 2005). This allows for the reconstruction of a specific earthquake event either by approximating the solution with available preliminary earthquake data or by inverting real‐time sea level data via a process of selecting a combination of unit sources based on tsunami arrival time at the DART station(s) in conjunction with a least‐squares approach providing a ‘best fit’ to the observed DART signal(s).…”

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The tsunami of 2007 September 12, Bengkulu province, Sumatra, Indonesia: post-tsunami field survey and numerical modelling

Borrero

Weiss

Okal

et al. 2009

Geophysical Journal International

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S U M M A R YThe M w = 8.4 earthquake on 2007 September 12, offshore of the Bengkulu province of Sumatra, Indonesia, generated a moderate tsunami with run-up heights of up to 4 m as measured by Indonesian and international researchers in the days following the earthquake. The tsunami was observed along 250 km of coastline and caused damage at several locations. The largest wave heights and most severe inundation were observed about 50 km to the northwest of Bengkulu; elsewhere the effects were less severe-with the exception of substantial inundation at a site 150 km to the south. In addition to presenting the field data, we conduct a modelling study and compare the run-up heights and water-level predictions from four different seismic deformation models used to initialize a tsunami propagation and inundation model. Our comparative results suggest that, for this event, the estimates of fault parameters available immediately after determination of the earthquake size and location predicted the near-field run-up heights and distribution and far-field wave equally well as estimates obtained using more detailed descriptions of the seafloor deformation, as typically available hours or days after an event. We conclude that while detailed slip patterns can be important to the near-field run-up distribution, simple fault models can be used to rapidly assess the likely near-and far-field tsunami effects of a particular earthquake.

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“…Deep water (up to 6000 m) distant tsunami detection capability has been demonstrated by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)-led U.S. National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program [2]- [6]. One of the remaining challenges is to forecast tsunamis in the near field where the tsunami signal may be obscured by earthquake vibrations and other ocean "noise" not commonly found at deep water installations.…”

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Nano-resolution technology demonstrates promise for improved local tsunami warnings on the MARS project

Paros

Spillane

Tang

et al. 2012

2012 Oceans - Yeosu

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Recent advances in deep-ocean tsunami measurement technology coupled with tsunami forecast models have reliably demonstrated that tsunami impact can be predicted before the tsunami reaches the affected coastlines. These forecast models are based on observations that are typically 1000 km or more from the earthquake epicenter. The major challenge today is to forecast tsunamis in the near field where the tsunami wave is often overwhelmed by the seismic event. Nano-resolution pressure sensors have the necessary resolution to distinguish between tsunami and seismic signals and ocean noise in the near field. This study describes the results of a 17 month experiment that was initiated on June 30, 2010, at the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS) cabled observatory in Monterey Bay, California. The experiment compared a conventional pressure sensor and a nano-resolution pressure sensor at a depth of approximately 900 m. The results presented include examples of near-and far-field earthquakes and micro-tsunamis that were detected by the nano-resolution pressure sensor. Through wavelet analysis several micro-tsunamis were identified. The paper also describes additional testing planned by NOAA on the nano-resolution pressure sensors for potential application to the NOAA DART System.

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The U.S. National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program: A Successful State—Federal Partnership

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

The Primacy of Partnership: Scoping a New National Disaster Recovery Policy

The Primacy of Partnership: Scoping a New National Disaster Recovery Policy

The tsunami of 2007 September 12, Bengkulu province, Sumatra, Indonesia: post-tsunami field survey and numerical modelling

Nano-resolution technology demonstrates promise for improved local tsunami warnings on the MARS project

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