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Tsuinfo Alert, Vol. 14, No. 6, October 2012 Contents Volume 14, Number 6 December 2012 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Special features Departments Report from Massachusetts 1 News 11 Lessons learned at Japan’s tsunami catastrophe, Part II 8 Websites and Apps 12 Switzerland tsunami? 9 Publications 12 Freight-container hotel opens in tsunami-devastated area 10 State offices 1 How to replace documents lost in a disaster 11 INDEX for 2012 13 Wireless carriers implementing the CMAS 12 Material added to NTHMP Library 27 American Samoa preparedness improvements 14 IAQ 26 Coastbuster app 28 Video reservations 28 California tsunami policy working group forms 5 Regional reports 3 Guam becomes a TsunamiReady/StormRead community 7 Conferences 12 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ REPORT FROM MASSACHUSETTS Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency http://www.mass.gov/eopss/agencies/mema/ MEMA's MISSION Welcome to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). MEMA is the state agency with primary responsibility for ensuring the state's resilience to disasters. MEMA's staff of professional planners, communications specialists, operations managers and support personnel is committed to an all hazards approach to emergency management. By building and sustaining effective partnerships with federal, state and local government agencies, and with the private sector - - individuals, families, non-profits and businesses - - MEMA ensures the Commonwealth's ability to rapidly recover from large and small disasters by assessing and mitigating hazards, enhancing preparedness, ensuring effective response, and building the capacity to recover. ♦ State Offices and agencies of emergency management: Gives mailing addresses, phone and fax numbers, websites. Does not give personnel names or job titles. http://www.fema.gov/about/contact/statedr.shtm TsuInfo Alert is prepared by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources on behalf of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, a State/Federal Partnership funded through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is assembled by Lee Walkling, Librarian, and is published bi-monthly by the Washington Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources. This publication is free upon request and is available in print (by surface mail), and at http://www.dnr.wa.gov/ResearchScience/Topics/GeologyPublicationsLibrary/Pages/tsuinfo.aspx Participants in the TsuInfo program can request copies of reports listed in this issue from: Washington Geology Library Washington Department of Natural Resources Division of Geology and Earth Resources 1111 Washington Street SE, MS 47007 Olympia, WA 98504-7007 360/902-1473 fax: 360/902-1785 e-mail: [email protected] The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of NOAA, the Washington Department of Natural Resources, or other sponsors of TsuInfo Alert. ISSN 1938-5064 (continued from page 1) TsuInfo Alert, v. 14, no. 6, December 2012 2 REGIONAL REPORTS emergency exercises and promote public readiness through community education. Given that American AMERICAN SAMOA Samoa is located 120 miles away from the Tonga Trench, one of the fastest moving subduction zones American Samoa tsunami study in the world, tsunami readiness is paramount to the Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and island’s safety posture. EA/HHF After meeting all federal requirements, this This report summarizes a major planning effort week the islands of Tutuila, Aunuu, Ofu, Olosega by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Amer- and Tau and all of the National Park of American ican Samoa Government to increase coastal com- Samoa have attained the federal NOAA/NWS des- munity resilience to the devastating effects of tsu- ignation of TsunamiReady and will be officially namis in American Samoa. designated as TsunamiReady in a ceremony with According to the report’s abstract, the process senior American Samoan Government, NOAA and involved broad stakeholder involvement, regular FEMA officials. interaction with a Governor-appointed Tsunami “This subduction zone will continue to produce Advisory Committee, extensive research into a earthquakes and potentially damaging tsunamis,” variety of coastal resilience topics, and the devel- said Regional Administrator Nancy Ward. “Amer- opment of recommendations and a multi-year im- ican Samoa Government officials have truly made plementation plan focused on improving community preparedness one of their most important priorities. resilience. The study recognizes and builds on the Their training and outreach programs have achieved inherent resilience of Pacific Island cultures devel- remarkable results that will help save future lives.” oped over thousands of years of oceanic living, and On September 29, 2009 the South Pacific tsu- Fa‘asamoa, the traditional approach Samoans follow nami was generated by a series of earthquakes that to govern village life. In addition to the final report, took place at possibly the closest point of this trench the study’s website includes links to working pa- to American Samoa, causing fatalities and regional pers, briefing materials, and resources gathered devastation. Resources have been invested by fed- throughout the study. eral, territorial, voluntary and private sectors part- To download the final report, visit: ners since the killer wave came ashore in 2009 that http://astsunamiresilience.org/reports/ have helped the territory to achieve a heightened From: WSSPC e-Newsletter, Summer 2012, p. level of preparedness. 15 The whole community of American Samoa has http://www.wsspc.org/news/news_files/eNews_Sum come together during the past three years to make mer12.pdf the citizens of the islands safer and better prepared to meet a wide variety of threats. “This is a perfect example of the resilience of FEMA invests $100 million in post-tsunami the Pacific Islanders and the value of government disaster relief, emergency preparedness im- coordination and cooperation. Everyone met this provements for American Samoa disaster head on and never stopped moving for- ward. This recognition is something that the people NOAA will certify Territory as TsunamiReady this of American Samoa and their many partners can be week (Sept. 28, 2012) very proud of,” said Jeff LaDouce, Director of NOAA’s National Weather Service Pacific Region. Honolulu, Hawaii -- The Federal Emergency Man- Post-tsunami FEMA funded projects include: agement Agency has awarded nearly $100 million the purchase of a generator and two ambulances for dollars in post-tsunami improvements to American LBJ hospital and establishing an Emergency 9-1-1 Samoa for lifesaving emergency management sys- Call Center. In addition, funds were used to pur- tems that include an early warning siren system, 9- chase and install an early warning siren system 1-1 emergency call center and the completion of a complete with 48 sirens throughout American formal tsunami hazard plan that proved instrumental Samoa. Funds were also used to improve airport in helping the island achieve the coveted status of security and to purchase equipment for American TsunamiReady. Samoa Department of Homeland Security’s Emer- To be recognized as TsunamiReady, a com- gency Operation Center. Communications equip- munity must establish a 24 hour warning point and ment and official vehicles for the American Samoa emergency operations center, develop multiple ways Department of Homeland Security were also to receive tsunami warnings and alert the public, acquired. The Land-Mobile-Radio project contract develop a formal tsunami hazard plan, conduct has been awarded and is the next phase to be TsuInfo Alert, v. 14, no. 6, December 2012 3 implemented to improve communication capability Tracking tsunami debris in the hands of citizens on the island. FEMA’s aggregated financial assistance to long term recovery have included: awarding more than $37 million in FEMA’s Individual Assistance programs. This includes assistance under various FEMA programs, including housing assistance, other needs assistance that provided support for dental, medical, moving, storage and a variety of other needs. The award of more than $54 million to the ASG to rebuild public infrastructure, mitigate against future disasters and reimburse the American Samoa Murray Leslie, a software developer for Ocean Networks Canada, government for some of the money spent during the snaps a photo of a box marked with Japanese characters at Tele- initial response. graph Cove in Cadboro Bay for a demonstration of Coastbuster, In consultation with the American Samoan the mobile app. The program is designed to allow anyone to help Government, FEMA has rebuilt and turned over 39 Canadian and U.S. authorities catalogue and track marine debris, especially objects swept to sea following the 2011 Japanese permanent replacement homes to deserving Ameri- tsunami. can Samoan families who lost their homes as a re- sult of the devastating tsunami. A wooden box stamped with Japanese charac- The award of more than $8 million in Home- ters sits hidden beneath a pile of seaweed and a size- land Security Grant Program funds and public safety able chunk of kelp near the waters of Telegraph interoperable communications funding used for Cove – an image of what is expected to hit West planning and to help American Samoa to be more Coast beaches this December. prepared
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