Earthquakes are dynamic laboratories for learning and catalysts for building capacity for disaster-intelligent & disaster-resilient communities. Presentation courtesy of Dr Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction
Lessons From Past Notable Earthquakespart - Sichuan China
1. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PREPAREDNESS
PLANNING FOR
THE INEVITABLE
STRONG GROUND
MOTION IS
ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
9. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PREPAREDNESS
PLANNING FOR
THE INEVITABLE
STRONG GROUND
MOTION IS
ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
10. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PROTECTION OF
BUILDINGS AND
INFRASTRUCTURE
IS ESSENTIAL
FOR COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
18. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
PREPAREDNESS
PLANNING FOR
THE INEVITABLE
GROUND FAILURE
IS ESSENTIAL
FOR COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
21. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
CAPACITY FOR
INTELLIGENT
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE IS
ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
22. EMERGENCY RESPONSE
HINDERED BY AFTERSHOCKS
According to the China
Seismological Bureau, 10,068
aftershocks were detected
within 3 weeks after the main
shock.
34. LESSONS LEARNED FOR
DISASTER RESILIENCE
ALL NOTABLE
EARTHQUAKES
CAPACITY FOR
RECOVERY AND
RECONSTRUCTION
IS ESSENTIAL FOR
COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE.
37. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
• Within three weeks, the
death toll, which would
eventually reach 88,000,
reached 69,107
•The number of injured
reached 373,577
38. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
1,064,591 people were
evacuated from damaged and
destroyed homes or homes
threatened by floods to safer
places .
39. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•Fifteen million homeless
and displaced people had
been housed in tent cities
and temporary shelters
across the region.
40. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•The government had allocated 23.074
billion yuan (3.33 billion U.S. dollars)
for quake relief efforts.
• The relief fund included 18.68 billion
yuan from the central budget and
4.394 billion yuan from local budgets.
41. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•Domestic and foreign donations
reached 42.364 billion yuan (6.11
billion U.S. dollars), up 624 million
yuan overnight.
•12.1 billion yuan had been
forwarded to the most severely
affected areas.
42. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
• 749,200 tents, one of the most
urgently needed relief supplies,
had been delivered to stricken
families.
• A total of 4,416,100 quilts and
11,700,200 garments had also
been delivered to stricken regions.
43. TWENTY-ONE DAYS LATER
•Relief workers had built 15,500
temporary houses and another
10,600 were being put together.
•The material for 45,700
makeshift houses had arrived in
the impacted areas.
44. TEMPORARY HOUSING
• As of Tuesday, July 8th, relief
workers had built 447,600
temporary houses and another
23,600 were ready to install.
• The materials for 50,600 new
shelters had arrived in the
affected areas.
45. TENTS, QUILTS, GARMENTS,
AND FUEL
About 1.58 million tents,
4.87 million quilts, 14.1
million garments, and 1.84
million tons of fuel oil had
been sent to the quake-hit
areas.
46. ROAD RESTORATION
As of Wednesday noon, July
9th, 52,418 km of the 53,295
km of roads damaged in the
quake, had been restored to
service.
47. BEICHUAN COUNTY
As a part of the reconstruction
process, soldiers helped by
disinfecting and cleaning up
Beichuan, one of the areas that
was razed to the ground after
suffering heavy damage.
48. NEW POLICY: JUNE 8TH
Premier Wen Jiabao signed a
regulation on reconstruction
which established the
“protection of the ecological
environment with economic and
social development" as a
guiding principle.
49. DEBRIS AND ENVIRON-
MENTAL IMPACTS
• When China's military had
disposed of 8 million cubic
meters of debris, cleanup had
barely begun, and the tip of the
environmental iceberg was
barely exposed.
50. WATER
• Contaminated water is one
of the biggest environ-
mental issues to ascertain
after the earthquake.
51. LONG TERM HEALTH
IMPACTS
• Concern about long-term health
impacts is well founded as a
result of adverse environmental
impacts on soil, air, and water.
52. THE RECONSTRUCTION
DEMANDS ARE HUGE
According to the State Council
Information Office, about
5,461,900 houses collapsed,
5,932,500 houses were seriously
damaged, and another 21 million
need repairs.
53. DEATHS, INJURED, AND
MISSING
• The official death toll stood at
69,197 as of Wednesday , July
9th, according to the State
Council Information Office .
• The number of injured and
missing stood at 374,176 and
18,379 respectively
54. The government disaster relief fund had reached 56.088 billion yuan (about 8.19 billion U.S. dollars), including 50.748 billion yuan from the central budget and 5.34
DISASTER FUNDS
The government disaster relief
fund reached 56.088 billion
yuan (about 8.19 billion U.S.
dollars), including 50.748
billion yuan from the central
budget and 5.34 billion yuan
from the local budget.