Conveners
T5.2 e-poster session: e-poster session - T5.2 - Experience with and Possible Additional Contributions to Issues of Global Concern such as Disaster Risk Mitigation, Climate Change Studies and Sustainable Development Goals
- Ronan Le Bras (CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna, Austria)
T5.2 e-poster session: T5.2 - Experience with and Possible Additional Contributions to Issues of Global Concern such as Disaster Risk Mitigation, Climate Change Studies and Sustainable Development Goals
- Ronan Le Bras (CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna, Austria)
Description
T5.2
Sabah is the most seismically active state in Malaysia where it has recorded higher number of moderate seismological activities for the past decades. The seismicity record of Sabah shows the presence of two distinctive seismic zones, which are Ranau in Kota Kinabalu and Lahad Datu in the southeast of the region. The IMS network setup by the CTBTO has successfully detected seismic events...
An Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 Mw with a depth of 10 Km that occurred in the Central Sulawesi province on Sept. 28, 2018, at 18:02 (WITA) triggered a Tsunami with a height of up to 5 meters and Liquefactions in Palu City. Based on the results of radon gas monitoring at Tadulako station, which is ~71 Km from the earthquake epicenter shows before the earthquake occurred indicating an...
Since 1994, the Kazakh NNC RK has operated the contemporary monitoring system that includes seismic and infrasound stations. Five stations are included in the IMS: PS23, AS57, AS58, AS59, IS31. The main goal of the NNC RK network is monitoring of nuclear explosions in support of the CTBT. The data of NNC RK network are actively used in civil tasks, for example, to estimate the seismic hazard...
Today with growing processes of globalization geopolitical and economic role of Arctic region in the world is also constantly growing. The Arctic region is becoming the center of building a new system of global and regional security, which also contributes to the growing interest of States in the development of this region, and leads to the expansion of active economic activity.The increasing...
Following the spike of above ground nuclear testing in the 50s, carbon dating has become very difficult to perform and most scientists have started to move to other dating methods if they wished to date anything from the 50s to the this day. We look at how the fission products Carbon-14 and Cesium-137 have affected our environment and why it is important to ratify CTBT to prevent damage like this.
The fast-pace developments in scientific innovations introduced many new challenges for man-kind. The 21st century is facing many non-traditional security threats like climate change, pandemics, refugees’ crises, resource scarcity etc. Both security and non-traditional security threats pose hinderance in the process of sustainable development and disaster risk mitigation efforts.
On one hand...
Characteristic features of infrasound waves observed in the Antarctic reveal physical interaction involving surface environments around the continent and Southern Ocean. An infrasound array (100 m spacing) by using three sensors (Chaparral Physics Model 25, with a detectable frequency range of 0.1-200 Hz), together with a broadband barometer (Digiquartz Nano-Resolution Model 6000-16B...
Increasing windstorm occurrences significantly affect human lives, especially communities living in densely populated areas. However, windstorms commonly occur in a short period, with unexpected timing and at random places. Therefore, wind hazard maps must be developed to build resilience actions within communities. Bogor City area is used as a sample study and this research utilised GIS in...
The SINAMOT (Sistema Nacional de Monitoreo de Tsunamis), is responsible for increasing Costa Rica tsunami preparedness, by characterizing the threat, increasing community preparedness and strengthening the existing tsunami warning standards of practice.
The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC), SINAMOT evaluates tsunami hazard models including near and far field scenarios. We use several...
We see that the process of globalization approaches its virtual pick. However, the key drivers for risk assets are still in place. One of those risk assets is nuclear assets.
Now, when world community is facing global concerns, such as disaster risk mitigation, climate change studies, the Sustainable Development Goals and lockdown policies. Governments forced to implement radical strategic...
The Sustainable Development Goals were approved by the United Nations to lead the way for a better world. Designed to respond to global challenges, the SDGs are answers to questions related to poverty, climate, prosperity, environment, peace, justice, et cetera.
Unfortunately, only a decade away from achieving these SDGs, the countries of the central Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) are...
During SnT19 we presented our work on defining the sources of hydroacoustic signals in the Indian ocean and looked at how the IMS can contribute to SDG 14. During the analysis we only managed to process three months of data from IMS HA04, HA08 and HA01. This time, we processed more than 12 months of non-stop data from those same stations. Data processing was performed using PMCC method with...
The International Data Centre (IDC), which is present in Vienna, receives information from the International Monitoring System (IMS). The IMS has radionuclide, seismic, and hydroacoustic stations around the globe which gather data about air quality, land and oceans respectively. This regularly updated scientific data can be used by the “students of Environmental Science and Global...
The CENALT (CEntre National d’ALerte aux Tsunamis) has been operating as the French TSP (Tsunami Service Provider) since 2012. Its objective is to disseminate warning messages towards the French national civil protection agency and the international subscribers, in less than 15 min following a tsunamigenic earthquake in the Western Mediterranean Sea and the North-East Atlantic Ocean. Early...
The impacts of multiple stressors on the ocean and the associated risks of abrupt state shifts can be explored through ocean system interactions, risks, instabilities, synergies and Arctic Ocean climate predicting models.
The draining of pools underneath the glacier and glacier retreat is attributed to increased carbon dioxide and green house gases.
Hence, efforts are made on the...
Earthquake swarms observed before the 2006 and 2011 Nyamulagira eruptions were analysed. The activities and hypocenter distributions of these earthquake swarms were mainly examined.
The former swarm was characterised by a higher seismic activity than the later. Although the two swarms accompanied eruptions, most of the swarms observed in 2006 and 2011 were not followed by any eruptions. These...
The identification of the Palu-Koro Fault has been conducted. The study method used is a merging scientific discipline of geology and geophysics. Field data acquisition, processing, analysis and modeling in the laboratory using geological and geophysical techniques became the main framework in this study.
Acquisition of geological investigation including fault-slip at 19 points and 30...
Natural disasters are a serious disruption to the functioning of a community involving significant damage and loss of human life that the community cannot overcome with its own resources. The effects are often cumulative and felt over time and space. Thus, it is imperative to put in place a good prevention and risk management system that makes it possible to optimize actions, especially when...
The National Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Plan (NNREP) provides the basis for a national level response to a radiation emergency in Nigeria that is effectively integrated with an accompanying international, national and local response plan to establish a timely, organized and coordinated emergency response by the Nigerian Authorities to promptly and adequately determine and take actions...
In the last 500 years, more than 75 tsunamis have been documented in the Caribbean and the adjacent regions. Since 1842, 3446 deaths associated with tsunamis have been reported. On August 21 2018, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred just off the northern coast of Venezuela and caused tremors in several nearby countries. A tsunami was not expected, nonetheless the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center...
Characteristics of seismic tremors in April 2015 were investigated at Syowa Station, in the Lützow-Holm Bay (LHB), East Antarctica. To examine the relationship between surface environment in a particular cryosphere variation, MODIS satellite images were utilized for comparison with the tremor events. Since a large volume of sea ice was discharged in April 2015, along with large icebergs passed...
Seismic monitoring and observation is a vital and main function of the Seismological Observatory Section of the Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands are formed from part of a complex of Melanesian island arcs and are located on the South West Pacific Region NW of Papua New Guinea and SE of Vanuatu Islands. Due to tectonic settings of a complex plate of convergent zone, the seismicity of the...
This paper focuses on assessing the vulnerability of buildings at Nyanyano (Ghana) in case there are future earthquakes. Seismic data(local and CTBTO) was used as basis to forecast the occurrence of future earthquakes. Thirty buildings were sampled throughout the area and grouped into the different types according to European Macroseismic Scale (EMS-98) based on what was used for their...
Lack of in-depth seismic hazard studies (SHS) for West Africa (WA) has negatively impacted planning and disaster risk management. Using modern techniques for SHS, this study aims to address such challenges. WA’s earthquake catalogue was updated from various data sources including CTBTO. The seismotectonic setting of WA is assumed to be either, a stable continental crust or a shallow crustal...
Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS) as National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) and Tsunami Service Provider (TSP) for the Indian Ocean region countries, as well as ASEAN Earthquake Information Center (AEIC). In InaTEWS operational, BMKG is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and disseminating earthquake information and tsunami early warning. Based on BMKG’s master Plan up to...
Following the January 12, 2010 Mw 7 Haiti earthquake, the shaking intensity near the epicenter was overestimated and the spatial extent of the potentially damaging shaking was underestimated. This was due to the lack of seismometers in the near-source region at the time of the earthquake.
Besides seismic-waves, earthquakes generate infrasound, i.e., inaudible acoustic-waves in the...
On 12 January 2020, Taal Volcano (Philippines) had a strong phreatomagmatic eruption producing a 10-15 km ash column and ashfall reaching as far as Quezon City (~80 km). Taal is one of the most dangerous volcanoes known, with 34 eruptions since 1572, and eruptions being phreatic, phreatomagmatic, strombolian or plinian (e.g. 1954). Increased volcanic activity has been observed for a year but...
This report presents on the recent tsunami that hit coasts of the Indonesian Island of Central Sulawesi. Indonesia, due to its location has experienced numerous tsunamis in recent times. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is one of the most devastating among them. The latest one on 28th September 2018, at 18:02:44 a strong tsunami accompanied an earthquake of Mw 7.5 and left the state of Central...
District of Cilacap is located on the southern coast of Java island, in the area near to the subduction zone between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Sunda plate which has high earthquake activity. One of the biggest tsunami events ever recorded in the past is the tsunami event known as the Pangandaran tsunami. The July 17, 2006 tsunami originated from the Mw 7.8 earthquake on Pangandaran...
Energy facilities and natural resource development are potential sources of anthropogenic impact on tectonic stresses in the earth's crust. The consequence of this can be provoked seismicity, which can be divided into induced seismicity and trigger seismicity. Provoked seismicity can be dangerous for the above-mentioned objects. However, signs of difference between tectonic and provoked...
