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Council – Staff Workshop Earthquake Preparedness Your role Earthquake Preparedness

Sadhu Johnston

Deputy City Manager

2012-12-12

Overview

We live in an earthquake-prone area. We are providing an update to Council on:

• Overview of our EQ planning scenario
• An overview of the Earthquake Risk

Management Project (ERMP) – what the City is doing to address this risk

What can we expect?

Preparedness Now Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opXZY1zZ8xk

What can we expect here?

Cascadia Subduction Earthquake

Crustal EQ (e.g. Hypothetical Georgia Strait EQ) Kendall Fault Earthquake

Vancouver’s Credible Planning Scenario

• M 7.3 crustal EQ in Georgia Strait
• Epicenter 30 km west of Vancouver
• 60 seconds of violent shaking in Vancouver
• Aftershocks of M 4.0 to M 6.0
• Submarine landslides
• Widespread structure damage- Pre-1970s

most impacted

• Communications system damage and
• verload

Source: Natural Resources Canada

Impacts – some numbers (regional)

• $15 billion to residential buildings
• 5 million tonnes of debris – 200,000

truckloads

• Injuries and deaths

– 6000 people require medical attention – 1000 require hospitalization – 200 require hospitalization w life threatening injuries – 300 people killed

Infrastructure Damage

• Transportation:

– Significantly damaged with a potential for partial collapse of bridges and tunnels – Damage to the airport

• Water and sewer:

– General disruptions but extent unknown

• Energy and telecommunications:

– Localized failures and system overload – Over 200 K households without power, restoration could take 2 months

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Fires

• 40 to 50 ignitions
• burn about 2.6 km² or 0.1% of Metro

Vancouver

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What’s the City doing?

What we’ve done

What we’ve done

• DFPS
• HUSAR
• Seismic Upgrades (bridges/structures)
• Non-seismic retrofitting of City buidings
• Consolidated radio & dispatch (E-Comm)
• Emergency Supply Containers
• Public Preparedness Education
• Emergency Operations Centre
• Emergency Telecommunications
• Disaster Response Routes
• Building code improvements

Recent events Chile Christchurch Japan Learnings

• Need to better

understand risk and consequences

• Need to assess and

strengthen City’s resilience

• Require more

coordinated community response

Developing an Earthquake Risk Management Strategy

Identifying impacts, gaps, and solutions to earthquake risk in Vancouver

Developing an Earthquake Risk Management Strategy

Built Environment

• COV Facilities

Condition Audit (Seismic)

• Upgrade/retrofit of

essential facilities

• Identifying priority

locations for water infrastructure upgrades Communications and Engagement

• Engagement with

business community

• Rolling out

earthquake plans to staff

• Revamp public

education program Emergency Response

• Rapid Damage

Assessment Teams training

• Integrated

Sheltering Plan

• Coordinate with

schools & hospitals for response planning Earthquake Impact and Loss Estimation Modelling – improving the fact base to support mitigation, preparedness, and response planning.

Engaged in Regional Planning

• IPREM Working Groups

Integrated partnership for regional emergency management

– Disaster Debris – Regional Concept of Operations – Emergency Communications – Disaster Response Routes – Critical Infrastructure

Conducting Exercises

• Magnitude 2012 - HUSAR
• Tumbling Dice – COV Field Staff
• Policy Group table-top (CMT, MHO, CBO)

Planning for response

• Earthquake Concept of Operations
• Vancouver Volunteer Corps

– Emergency Social Services, NEAT

• VECTOR (Emergency Amateur Radio)
• HUSAR
• Staff-Family Reunification

Your role Your role

Emergency Responder Muster Locations

Concept of Operations

Based on BCERMS (BC Emergency Response Management System)

Moving Forwards

Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | July 2012 | 2013

Project Kick-off Report back to Council with Action Plan Analyzing Impacts and Gaps Identifying Risk- Reduction Actions and Solutions Implementing Quick Start Actions Draft Report Multi-stakeholder working groups On-going risk assessment and modeling

Summary

• We live in an earthquake-prone area
• The City has implemented a number of

mitigation and preparedness measures and has plans in place to respond.

• We continue to assess the risk, exercise

plans, and improve upon them.

• We will report back to Council with an

Earthquake Risk Mitigation Action Plan in May 2013

What can the public and business community do?

Get prepared!

Call 3-1-1 to register for one of our free Emergency Preparedness Workshops.

Develop Business Continuity Plans! Help out – volunteer!

Call 3-1-1 to find out how you can volunteer for the Vancouver Volunteer Corps or other City

• pportunities.