HR: 13:45h
AN: OS23B-01 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Geophysical Hazards and Preventive Disaster Management of Extreme Natural Events
AU: * Ismail-Zadeh, A
EM: Alik.Ismail-Zadeh@gpi.uka.de
AF: Geophysical Institute, University of Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. 16, Karlsruhe, 76187, Germany
AU: * Ismail-Zadeh, A
EM: Alik.Ismail-Zadeh@gpi.uka.de
AF: International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Science, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya ul., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation
AU: Takeuchi, K
EM: kuni.t@pwri.go.jp
AF: International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO, Minamihara 1-6, Tsukuba, 305-8516, Japan
AB: Geophysical hazard is potentially damaging natural event and/or phenomenon, which may cause the loss of life or injury, property damage, social and economic disruption, or environmental degradation. Extreme natural hazards are a key manifestation of the complex hierarchical nonlinear Earth system. An understanding, accurate modeling and forecasting of the extreme hazards are most important scientific challenges. Several recent extreme natural events (e.g., 2004 Great Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami and the 2005 violent Katrina hurricane) demonstrated strong coupling between solid Earth and ocean, and ocean and atmosphere. These events resulted in great humanitarian tragedies because of a weak preventive disaster management. The less often natural events occur (and the extreme events are rare by definition), the more often the disaster managers postpone the preparedness to the events. The tendency to reduce the funding for preventive disaster management of natural catastrophes is seldom follows the rules of responsible stewardship for future generations neither in developing countries nor in highly developed economies where it must be considered next to malfeasance. Protecting human life and property against earthquake disasters requires an uninterrupted chain of tasks: from (i) understanding of physics of the events, analysis and monitoring, through (ii) interpretation, modeling, hazard assessment, and prediction, to (iii) public awareness, preparedness, and preventive disaster management.
DE: 0468 Natural hazards
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting