Tag Archive for ‘Ewa Beach’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Ewa Beach'

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Pacific states hold tsunami test

Chanuka Wattegama

on May 17, 2006

BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4988492.stm

More than 30 countries around the Pacific Ocean have tested a system to warn them of approaching tsunamis.
The exercise began with a mock alert at the Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii.
An earthquake with a magnitude 9.2 was imagined to have struck near the coast of Chile, sending a tsunami racing across the eastern Pacific.
A second mock earthquake alert, north of the Philippines, will provide a further test on Wednesday.
Governments will report back on how efficiently they received the tsunami warnings, relayed through various circuits including weather services, emails and faxes.
The drill, co-ordinated by the Hawaii warning centre, will also measure how well the message is relayed through local emergency systems.

‘Already a success’
At the start of the test, a beeping noise sounded throughout the warning…

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Tags: American Samoa, Asia-Pacific, BBC, Charles McCreery, Chile, emergency systems, Ewa Beach, Hawaii, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, local emergency systems, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean, Thailand, the Philippines, tsunami, Tsunami Warning Centre, weather services.

Mapping disaster research

Rohan Samarajiva

on February 14, 2006

NSF EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP ON SENSOR BASED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EARLY TSUNAMI DETECTION, Maui, Feb 9-10, 2006

What I learned during my visits to the Civil Defense Center and the Tsunami Museum in Hilo and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach in Hawai’i last January greatly contributed to the disaster communication research program undertaken by LIRNEasia in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Therefore, I welcomed the opportunity to step back and reflect on the research program a year later, also in Hawai’i.

The occasion was a workshop funded by the National Science Foundation of the US. It was organized by Louise Comfort, Daniel Mosse and Taieb Znati, all at the U of Pittsburgh. Louise is from Public Policy and has been working on disasters for…

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Tags: Arthur C. Clarke Centre, Chip McCreery, Civil Defense Center, Daniel Mosse, deep-sea sensor devices, Disaster Management Center, early warning systems, Ewa Beach, GPS, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Kenya, Louise Comfort, National Science Foundation, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Pittsburgh, public warning systems, Rhett Butler, sensor networks, sensor-based networks, separate systems, Sri Lanka, Taieb Znati, Tanzania, Thailand, Tsunami Museum, United States, Vanguard Foundation, Walter Mooney.

Trip Report, Honolulu, January 16-19, 2005

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 31, 2005

The original purpose of the visit was to participate in a super session on Strategies for implementing universal access. The session was well attended and useful.

My presentation was Expanding Access to ICTs (Powerpoint)

Along with Bill Melodys forceful comments it clearly established the importance of market and regulatory reforms, a position that may otherwise have been deemphasized as a result of the Chairs interest in subsidies.

The visit was also used to pursue the disaster warning-communication issues that have come to the fore in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. On the 18th of January I visited the Big Islands Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center and the Pacific Tsunami Museum accompanied by Bill Melody and at the invitation of Dr George Curtis, a tsunami…

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Tags: Asia-Pacific, Big Islands Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center, Bill Melody, Bill Melodys, Ewa Beach, George Curtis, Hawaii, Honolulu, Indian Ocean, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Pacific Tsunami Museum, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Peter Anderson, Sri Lanka, the Indian Ocean tsunami, tsunami, University of Hawaii.

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