Online Hazard tools for the Pacific Northwest

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Online Hazard tools for the Pacific Northwest

• Jennifer Davey MHA, MSEM
• Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center
• Seattle WA
• Jennifer.davey_at_seattlechildrens.org

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Goal

• Planning/Preparedness
• Understand that all things are connected,
  especially with hazardsone can cause another or
  exacerbate existing hazards
• Find out the impacts to the organization
• Risk to staff
• Risk to community
• Risk to business

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National Weather Service

• Weather advisories
• http//nws.noaa.gov
• Monitor for extreme weather events,
  warnings/advisories

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Climate

• NOAA National Climatic Data Center
• http//www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html

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VOLCANOS

• Cascades Volcano Observatory
• http//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
• Alaska Volcano Observatory
• http//www.avo.alaska.edu/
• Other volcano resources
• http//volcano.und.edu/

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Volcano Location

• Question Where are active volcanoes?

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Volcano Questions

• What are the risks (beyond Lava flows)?
• http//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Hazards/framework.html

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Population Risk

• Which populations are at risk?
• Hazard zones?
• Mount Rainier designated most dangerous volcano
  in continental North America
• More than 100,000 people live on debris from past
  lahars

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Mitigation/Preparedness

• Living with volcanoes segment from USGS
• http//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/framework.htm
  l

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Additional Volcano Questions

• What is the warning system?
• What is the volcano alert level?
• Volcanic eruption prediction?
• How would a volcanic eruption affect me if I
  dont live in a volcanic zone?

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Earthquakes

• US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/
• Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
• http//www.pnsn.org/welcome.html
• Earthquake Information Network
• http//www.eqnet.org/

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Tectonic/Geography

• Earthquake snapshot 05/07/2007
• Clearly shows plate tectonics in motion
• How are earthquakes related to volcanoes?

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Earthquake Theory
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Earthquake questions

• Who is at risk from Earthquakes?
• What are the risks?
• What warning systems (if any) are in place?
• Can we predict Earthquakes?

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Lifelines and Faults
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US Seismic Hazards
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GIS and EQ
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Tsunami

• Vents Program Acoustic Monitoring
• Ocean Seismic Activity
• http//www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics.html
• Tsunami
• http//tsunami.gov
• http//www.tsunami.noaa.gov

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Tsunami

• What causes a tsunami?
• Does any earthquake cause a tsunami?
• Are tsunamis caused by anything other than
  earthquake?
• Where do they originate?
• What can communities do to prepare?
• Who is at risk?

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• http//nws.noaa.gov
• http//www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
• http//vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html
• http//www.avo.alaska.edu/
• http//volcano.und.edu/
• http//earthquake.usgs.gov/
• http//www.pnsn.org/welcome.html
• http//www.eqnet.org/
• http//www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics.html
• http//tsunami.gov
• http//www.tsunami.noaa.gov
• http//gldims.cr.usgs.gov/qfault/viewer.htm
• http//geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/pacnw/lifeline/eqhazard
  s.html