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DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN MEXICO
A PRIMER OF KNOWLEDGE THAT CAN MULTIPLY AND SPILL OVER FOR THE BENEFIT OF MILLIONS
Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of
North Carolina, USA
MEXICO’SMEXICO’S
COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES
MEXICO’SMEXICO’S
COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIESDATA BASES DATA BASES AND INFORMATIONAND INFORMATIONDATA BASES DATA BASES AND INFORMATIONAND INFORMATION
HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS
•NATURAL HAZARDS•BLDG. INVENTORY•VULNERABILITY•LOCATION
RISK ASSESSMENTRISK ASSESSMENT
RISK
ACCEPTABLE RISK
UNACCEPTABLE RISK
GOAL: DISASTER RISK GOAL: DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONREDUCTION
•EDUCATIONAL SURGE•PREVENTION/MITIGATION•PREPAREDNESS•EMERGENCY RESPONSE•RECOVERY and RECONSTRUCTION
POLICY OPTIONSPOLICY OPTIONS
NATURAL HAZARDS THAT PLACE MEXICO’S NATURAL HAZARDS THAT PLACE MEXICO’S COMMUNITIES AT RISK COMMUNITIES AT RISK
NATURAL HAZARDS THAT PLACE MEXICO’S NATURAL HAZARDS THAT PLACE MEXICO’S COMMUNITIES AT RISK COMMUNITIES AT RISK
HURRICANES
EARTHQUAKES
TSUNAMIS
FLOODS
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
LANDSLIDES
DEVELOP POLICIES FOR ACTIONS HAVING HIGH BENEFIT/COST FOR THE COMMUNITY
DEVELOP POLICIES FOR ACTIONS HAVING HIGH BENEFIT/COST FOR THE COMMUNITY
GOAL: REDUCE DISASTER GOAL: REDUCE DISASTER RISK NOWRISK NOW
GOAL: REDUCE DISASTER GOAL: REDUCE DISASTER RISK NOWRISK NOW
POLICY POLICY ADOPTIONADOPTION
POLICY POLICY ADOPTIONADOPTION
RISK ASSESSMENT
• VULNERABILITYVULNERABILITY
• EXPOSUREEXPOSURE
• EVENTEVENT
POLICY ASSESSMENT
• COSTCOST
• BENEFITBENEFIT
•CONSEQUENCESCONSEQUENCES
TOWARDS DISASTER RISK REDUCTIONTOWARDS DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
NSTURAL NSTURAL HAZARDSHAZARDS
NSTURAL NSTURAL HAZARDSHAZARDS
EXPECTED EXPECTED LOSSLOSS
EXPECTED EXPECTED LOSSLOSS
HURRICANES
MEXICO IS AT RISK FROM HURRICANES FORMING IN THE ATLANTIC, CARIBBEAN, AND GULF OF MEXICO AS WELL AS IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC
WIND PENETRATING BUILDING ENVELOPE
HURRICANESHURRICANES
UPLIFT OF ROOF SYSTEM
FLYING DEBRIS
STORM SURGE
IRREGULARITIES IN ELEVATION AND PLAN
SITING PROBLEMS
FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
HURRICANE DEAN
THE FIRST NORTH ATLANTIC HURRICANE OF 2007 CAUSED
DEVASTATION FROM CARIBBEAN ISLANDS TO MEXICO
A CATEGORY 2-3 STORM ON 17 AUGUST 2007
A CATEGORY 4 STORM ON 18 AUGUST 2007A CATEGORY 5 STORM ON 20 AUGUST
COORDINATED PLANNING BY USA, MEXICO, AND CANADA
• President Bush met with the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Monday, August 20th to continue coordinated planning of mutual assistance before the arrival of Hurricane Dean.
PATH OF DEAN: 20-21 AUGUST 2007
ADVANCE PREPARTIONS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
• The Gulf has 4,000 multi-million dollar oil and gas platforms and facilities that are at risk from hurricane Dean’s strong winds and high waves.
• Hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 flooded oil refineries, toppled oil rigs, and cut pipelines.
PEMEX OIL AND GAS PLATFORM IN GULF OF MEXICO
ADVANCE PREPARTIONS OF FACILITIES AT RISK IN THE GULF
• Pemex, Mexico’s oil company, began evacuating 13,500 workers from its oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, August 20.
• Petroleos Mexicanos evacuated all 18,000 offshore workers and shut down production rigs on the Bay of Campeche.
• This action resulted in a loss of revenue from daily production of 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas
FOOD AND WATER GONE; CANCUN, MEXICO: AUGUST 19
REMEMBERING WILMA, TOURISTS LEAVE CANCUN: AUGUST 19
50,000 TOURISTS LEFT MEXICO BY AUGUST 20
CHETUMAL: TAKING SHELTER IN A SCHOOL; AUGUST 20
HURRICANE DEAN AT LANDFALL: AUGUST 21
• Hurricane Dean made landfall at Majahual, Mexico as a category 5 storm with winds of 165 mi/hr.
• Just before landfall, Dean had a minimum central pressure of 906 millibars, the third lowest pressure after the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys and Hurricane Gilbert in 1988.
HURRICANE DEAN’S LANDFALL: AUGUST 21
• Hurricane Dean’s landfall at Majahual, a port popular with cruise liners, was “good luck” for the people of Mexico.
• This location was a sparsely populated coastline that had already been evacuated, so none of the major resorts took a direct hit.
• After a few hours, it became a category 2 storm.
MAYANS AT RISK: AUGUST 21
• Hurricane Dean threatened the Yucatan’s most vulnerable people — the Mayans, who have not benefited from tourism or oil production.
• They are poor, living simple lives, in wooden slat houses susceptible to wind damage that are located in low-lying areas prone to flooding.
LOCATION OF MEXICO’S MAYAN COMMUNITIES
IMPACTS IN MAJAHUAL
• Hundreds of homes collapsed in Mexico’s second busiest cruise ship destination.
• Steel girders collapsed and wooden structures splintered from the force of the wind.
• About one-half the concrete dock washed away in the storm surge.
MAJAHUAL LANDFALL: 270 KM/HR (165 MI/HR) WINDS; AUGUST 21
CHETUMAL: FLOODING ON AUGUST 21
BACALAR: FLOODING; AUGUST 21
HURRICANE DEAN’S SECOND LANDFALL: TECOLUTLA, MEXICO
THE SECOND LANDFALL IN MEXICO: AUGUST 22
• Hurricane Dean crossed the Bay of Campeche and made a second landfall as a category 2 storm on Wednesday, August 22.
• Landfall was at Tecolutla, a fishing town in the state of Veracruz on the Central Mexican coast, about 660 km (400 mi) from the border with Texas.
PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON VISITS CHETUMAL: AUGUST 22
STORM SURGE AND HEAVY RAINFALL: AUGUST 22
• Hurricane Dean’s storm surge flooded Ciuidad del Carmen, a town of 120,000, with waist deep sea water.
• Heavy rain fall accompanying Dean, now a category 1 storm, caused rivers to rise rapidly in a region that experienced flooding and landslides in 1999.
MAYAN COMMUNITIES SEVERELY IMPACTED
• Mexico’s Mayan communities have survived many damaging storms and centuries of oppression, but surviving Hurricane Dean’s impacts on their livelihood may be their greatest challenge ever.
• The greatest impact was NOT the thousands of destroyed Mayan homes, but the downed fruit-bearing trees and the destroyed corn crops.
EARTHQUAKES
EARTHQUAKES LIKE THE SEPTEMBER 19, 1985 QUAKE OCCUR
MAINLY AS A RESULT OF INTERACTIONS OF THE COCOS AND
NORTH AMERICAN PLATES
SUBDUCTION: COCOS AND NORTH AMERICAN PLATES
SCHOOL: MEXICO CITY; M8.1 QUAKE, SEPTEMBER 19, 1985
MEXICO CITY-- 400 BUILDINGS IN OLD LAKE BED ZONE DAMAGED
INADEQUATE RESISTANCE TO HORIZONTAL GROUND SHAKING
EARTHQUAKESEARTHQUAKES
SOIL AMPLIFICATION
PERMANENT DISPLACEMENT (SURFACE FAULTING & GROUND
FAILURE)
IRREGULARITIES IN ELEVATION AND PLAN
TSUNAMI WAVE RUNUP
POOR DETAILING AND WEAK CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
FRAGILITY OF NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
TSUNAMIS
LARGE SUBDUCTION ZONE EARTHQUAKES CAN GENERATE
TSUNAMIS
TSUNAMI HAZARDTSUNAMI HAZARD
• TSUNAMIS ARE LONG-PERIOD WATER WAVES CAUSED BY THE VERTICAL UPLIFT OF THE OCEAN FLOOR DURING A M7.0 OR GREATER EARTHQUAKE.
• TSUNAMIS ARE LONG-PERIOD WATER WAVES CAUSED BY THE VERTICAL UPLIFT OF THE OCEAN FLOOR DURING A M7.0 OR GREATER EARTHQUAKE.
HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT OF INCOMING WAVES
TSUNAMIS TSUNAMIS
INLAND DISTANCE OF WAVE RUNUP
VERTICAL HEIGHT OF WAVE RUNUP
INADEQUATE RESISTANCE OF BUILDINGS
FLOODING
INADEQUATE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL EVACUATION
PROXIMITY TO SOURCE OF TSUNAMI
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
“DISASTER LABORATORIES”
FLOODS
FLOODS ARE TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OR HURRICANES
70 % OF MEXICO’S TABASCO STATE UNDER WATER: NOV 2, 2007
LOSS OF FUNCTION OF STRUCTURES IN FLOODPLAIN
FLOODSFLOODS
INUNDATION
INTERACTION WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
STRUCTURE & CONTENTS: DAMAGE FROM WATER
WATER BORNE DISEASES (HEALTH PROBLEMS)
EROSION AND MUDFLOWS
CONTAMINATION OF GROUND WATER
CAUSES OF RISK
CAUSES OF RISK
DISASTER LABORATORIES
DISASTER LABORATORIES
VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
EXPLOSIVE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SUBDUCTION
ZONES.
ACTIVE VOLCANOES
EXPLOSIVE VOLCANOES OCCUR IN SUBDUCTION ZONES
ERUPTION OF POPOCATEPL PLACES MEXICO CITY AT RISK
LATERAL BLAST
VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS
VOLCANIC
ERUPTIONS
PYROCLASTIC FLOWS
FLYING DEBRIS
VOLCANIC ASH
LAVA FLOWS
LAHARS
TOXIC GASES
CAUSES OF RISK
CAUSES OF RISK
CASE HISTORIESCASE HISTORIES
LANDSLIDES
LARGE VOLUME LANDSLIDES ARE TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH
EARTHQUAKE GROUND SHAKING AND HURRICANES
LANDSLIDE FOLLOWING HEAVY RAINS IN MEXICO: JULY 2007
SITING AND BUILDING ON UNSTABLE SLOPES
LANDSLIDESLANDSLIDES
SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO FALLS
SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO TOPPLES
SOIL AND ROCK SUCEPTIBLE TO SPREADS
SOIL AND ROCK SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOWS
PRECIPITATION THAT TRIGGERS SLOPE FAILURE SHAKING
GROUND SHAKING THAT TRIGGERS SLOPE FAILURE
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
CAUSES OF DAMAGE
CASE HISTORIESCASE HISTORIES