Hazard and Disaster Management

Disaster Response

(May 21th, 2021)

Name Roll Number Section

Arsalan Saghir 17L-4615 A

Submitted To: Engr. Sara Asif

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES, LAHORE
 DISASTER RESPONSE
GUINEA
At the north western tip of Papua New Guinea, resides a coastal area Aitape. In
the late 20th century, the coastal land was hit by an earthquake which triggered the ocean. A
disastrous tsunami hit the coastline after producing a bombarding sound. As a result of which,
the area was engulfed by the ocean waves.
This incident took the lives of nearly 2000 innocent residents who were present at the coast
line at that time and 10,000 people went homeless. The tsunami continued for half an hour and
destroyed the coastline in this time period.
The incident stuck the governing organizations and the bodies were obliged to frame a plan for
the protection of the coastal areas from destruction in future. The agreements with the scientific
bodies were done and public awareness programs were initiated. The area was studied
carefully. Moreover, it was deduced that there were no databases available for the past events.
The investigations were carried out from the people who were the lucky survivors of the event.
The assistance of scientific teams from other countries including Japan was called and their
tsunami patterns were studied carefully.
The people, who were at first adamant to consider this as a natural disaster; gradually realized
the delicacy of situation and were trained for future events. In the tsunami of year 2020, the
demonstration of the awareness programs was visible as there was no casualty in the event.
Disaster Response Activities
The early warning signs for events like earthquake cannot be given.
However, the community has to be prepared mentally as well as
physically for these types of traumatizing events.
Warning The guidelines after the earthquake and the warning signs along with
safe escape routes need to be present at the coastal lines in every
language which is common in the premises of the area. The media can
play a significant role in the awareness of the people.
Burglar alarms need to be installed as soon as an earthquake hits and
safe evacuation routes need to be designed.
Evacuation and In this situation, early evacuation needs to be done near the coast line.
Mitigation Volunteers need to be called to carry out these evacuation activities.
Emergency transportation system needs to be planned which would help
in evacuation of the targeted area.
Search and Those who are injured and those who are stuck in tsunami need to be
Rescue rescued first to eliminate the risk of further causalities.
The research work prior to tsunami has to be done and the patterns are
Post Disaster to be studied. A database for the prone areas have to be generated. The
Management elderly individuals of the society need to be trained by the governing
bodies so that society can take its responsibility in case of calamity.
Those individuals, who lost their belongings and loved ones and those
Response and who were traumatized by the situation needs to be consoled so they
Cooping could live a normal life in the future. The mental recovery takes a longer
time, therefore; these individuals need to be dealt with care.
Logistics and The government along with the community need to finance and
Supply accommodate the individuals who lost their belongings.
The houses which are destroyed as a result of the tsunami need to be
Reconstruction
constructed as quickly as possible for the homeless people.