Conveners
O5.2 Synergies with Global Challenges: part 1
- Gerard Rambolamanana (CTBTO Preparatory Commission)
O5.2 Synergies with Global Challenges: part 2
- Gerard Rambolamanana (CTBTO Preparatory Commission)
The CTBTO receives, collects, processes, analyzes, reports, and archives data from International Monitoring System (IMS) facilities and makes it available to authorized users. Automatic processing methods and interactive human analysis are done on a routine basis to raw IMS data in order to produce and archive standard International Data Centre products.
The primary purpose of the IMS data is...
In recent years, the connections between climate change and security have drawn a lot of scholarly attention. Climate change adaptation measures frequently fall short of completely integrating peacebuilding or conflict prevention aims, making already vulnerable communities further impoverished and less able to withstand interconnected climate and security problems. The CTBT, which promotes a...
A success tsunami early warning issued to the public just after the occurrence of M7.5 earthquake located in the Flores Sea-Indonesia on 14th December 2021. Rapid seismological observation involving 6 CTBTO seismometers in Indonesia, 440 Indonesian Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency (MCGA) broadband seismometers, 5 borehole seismometers and 167 neighboring countries seismometers....
Tsunamis have a long history of devastation, causing more than 250,000 deaths worldwide during the last two decades. Current rapid warning systems rely on the earthquake magnitude mainly resulting in over three-quarter of alarms being false. Aiming at reducing false alarms we have developed a complementary real time early tsunami warning system methodology. The methodology is based on...
Timor-Leste is a small country that lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire. According to Think Hazard, the entire country's exposure to earthquakes is high, which suggests that there is more than 20% chance of potentially-damaging earthquake shaking in the country in the next 50 years. Moreover, as a country surrounded by about 706 kilometres of coastline, it also faces the threat of tsunamis. In...
The geographical location of Bangladesh is at the northern most part of the Bay of Bengal having a funnel shaped ending at the southern coast. Tectonically, the region is at the junction of the Indian and the Eurasian plate making an active tectonic zone of the world. Therefore, possibility of earthquake in the ocean is likely to occur in any place of the region that can result to tsunami at...
