tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61453941164484058472024-03-13T07:49:36.998-07:00HMES 2013 AgendaThe Conference Agenda of the April 2010 Geo Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit in Manila with new schedule on December 2014 prior to the UN 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk ReductionHMES 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/12394823321069034777noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-19683317262593949772013-12-28T18:07:00.002-08:002013-12-28T18:09:15.494-08:00Disasters and forecasting<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For nearly five years ago today, it was suggested to the <a href="http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/"><span style="color: blue;">Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services
Administration (PAGASA)</span></a> to enhance its satellite capability instead of
simply getting hand-me-down issuances from <a href="http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/"><span style="color: blue;">UN OOSA</span></a> (United Nations Outer
Space Affairs and the <a href="http://www.noaa.gov/"><span style="color: blue;">NOAA</span></a> (United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Administration) and the other geospatial information and
intelligence agencies all over the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At a certain point in time around the period of the occurrence of the
devastation by tropical storm Ketsana (Ondoy) in the Philippines, the PAGASA
was clamoring for the purchase and installation of its Doppler radar system, an
outmoded and unreliable system for weather forecasting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2010, all throughout the government circuit, the company of Mr. Philip King
called AAA, went on a lecture-presentation effort to sell the sensing and image
capture technology developed by a Malaysian scientist and technology specialist
who was also engaged in a similar high technology, extensive venture for the
government of Canada, among other countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Had the Department of Science and Technology considered using a network of
sensing stations with clear-photo capture capability on a 1-camera-per-station
(or possibly a cluster of cameras), weather forecasting in the country, aided
with charity hand-outs from NOAA, UNOOSA, the European Union, among other
satellite capable agencies, will definitely be more precise at the same time
vivid and viewable in real time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was foreseen in this site that absolutely nothing will be
allowed by Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) to block its path. As early as the morning
of the raging of this typhoon that PAGASA decided to merely attribute the
powerful rains and killer floods to monsoons, it was already the consensus
among the advocates that started this site that many people will die by Ketsana
(Ondoy). <a href="http://summit.hazmapping.org/2013/12/forecasting-with-more-confidence_18.html" target="_blank">More > ></a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10088417158961449394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-7824603912756520432013-12-08T02:20:00.004-08:002013-12-08T19:10:11.269-08:00Conference Agenda<div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shift in policy regimes:</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Factor natural phenomena and natural emissions in addition to industrial caused Greenhouse Gases (GHG) into Disaster and Climate Change risk parameters</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">All natural and man-made land deformations or wetlands defacements including altering life and inorganic objects therein should be seriously studied and factored into future Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Signing Declaration to observe 2014 as International Hazard Mapping Year</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Signing Declaration for observing December 2014 and of every year thereafter as the Disaster Risk Reduction Month</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Signing Declaration for observing December 17 on 2014 and on every year thereafter as the International Hazards Awareness Day</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Signing expanded agreements between UN, member nations on sharing of GIS on disasters and information from outer space</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Signing of Declaration for priority humanitarian care for disabled persons and waiver of immigration regulations in major disasters</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Balancing campaign for community resilience with tagging of non buildable areas and relocation of communities directly in the path of disasters, extremely hazardous earthquake faults or liquefaction sites, other risk vulnerable places</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Create Agreements in paper on new framework, parameters for a full-function Geoinformation Technology (GIT) Infrastructure for geo-hazards, disasters, emergency response and other possible crisis applications factoring both natural and man-made causes and build a functional GIS for disasters.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">HMES</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> 2014 Specific Objectives</span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Build a full scale, manual and computer coded environment and climate change risk map embedded with all available information overlays relevant to disasters.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Propose unifying of existing and new policy advocacy for the new millennium on disaster forecasting, management and interventions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Identify non-functional framework, obsolescent parameters and technologies that should be shelved and disseminate and delist from future acquisitions by end-user states</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Promulgate new systems for forecasting and early warning for higher avoidance of displacement and casualties</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Map unsafe and safe areas and propose augmentation program for internal migration and relocation to the campaign for community resiliency</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-indent: -30px;">· </span><span style="font-size: large;">Identify Partners Clusters in building integrated GIS.</span><br />
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<b>Selected References:</b></div>
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Global map</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3aFh_7Tffl86TyuQ0fqsMDieGV-qFCO88uJlvQLHmr-27P68CiwcxVWve1oQVxyHo_fLqWnUBq9hGQlDgyo1JnI8Xf7oefui6IoyOdTZ_uz3J5CcIVyz1x9wYnaVymWPYILHUzFxY/s1600/world+map3.jpg"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3aFh_7Tffl86TyuQ0fqsMDieGV-qFCO88uJlvQLHmr-27P68CiwcxVWve1oQVxyHo_fLqWnUBq9hGQlDgyo1JnI8Xf7oefui6IoyOdTZ_uz3J5CcIVyz1x9wYnaVymWPYILHUzFxY/s400/world+map3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Philippine Fault Map</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdo1_EoEACSfk6VRveLGXX-g5NQWRgcvoud1YP1keJr3TkvUc6efAM8wWp_P54eljQXwNRpGhLwP_zSwyJYTvay1XDeUofs-NVYvaxkoQhMim-G_C3aRYvPr3kW0HgAx1jL_AGvk8/s1600/Phil+Fault.jpg"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdo1_EoEACSfk6VRveLGXX-g5NQWRgcvoud1YP1keJr3TkvUc6efAM8wWp_P54eljQXwNRpGhLwP_zSwyJYTvay1XDeUofs-NVYvaxkoQhMim-G_C3aRYvPr3kW0HgAx1jL_AGvk8/s400/Phil+Fault.jpg" width="296" /></a></div>
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Philippine Seismicity Map ( USGS - 2001 )</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVnYyZJ2uTZ64XzmL-x3B5kY9gLSNtPeX0WK8CBEjdlKZuysihhf__8PvKN7FzYFZbt2yYk7q3FletLVQWC0krv61AoVTrjkkbnVWISAMKYU2lb41ZJ1hYANfF7DKil5kBjYHeNl_w/s1600/Philippines+Seismicity+Map+USGS.jpg"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVnYyZJ2uTZ64XzmL-x3B5kY9gLSNtPeX0WK8CBEjdlKZuysihhf__8PvKN7FzYFZbt2yYk7q3FletLVQWC0krv61AoVTrjkkbnVWISAMKYU2lb41ZJ1hYANfF7DKil5kBjYHeNl_w/s640/Philippines+Seismicity+Map+USGS.jpg" width="531" /></a></div>
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Map of Bohol - recently hit by 7.2 earthquake</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQfkagEaMNQeIhY3bzndxTWovfw_QyO77z_nQcH9owgpkmwOZxYVo-8dov4ji416Nd8GCy_zvGGkrsobcnu_7mNUxGirtEmcsKbGwOghy0nFOjB4Eg4lXtXuo-VnwpqrqVTDmii0v/s1600/bohol-map.jpg"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQfkagEaMNQeIhY3bzndxTWovfw_QyO77z_nQcH9owgpkmwOZxYVo-8dov4ji416Nd8GCy_zvGGkrsobcnu_7mNUxGirtEmcsKbGwOghy0nFOjB4Eg4lXtXuo-VnwpqrqVTDmii0v/s400/bohol-map.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Image capture of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in progress</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr0JCN_y6b3yiViwiAdb0Y3ecYzjQGDvDIPwXrnTyKaq4OsvypFcEflWxAADWlVWaT8GSJq2gZblMxeCE3E88l2VMLPISTT_Odi95VUoN0ikiL6XtyJ1GARWue2Chmmw8Jf4_SCtCC/s1600/new+tacloban+9.jpg"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr0JCN_y6b3yiViwiAdb0Y3ecYzjQGDvDIPwXrnTyKaq4OsvypFcEflWxAADWlVWaT8GSJq2gZblMxeCE3E88l2VMLPISTT_Odi95VUoN0ikiL6XtyJ1GARWue2Chmmw8Jf4_SCtCC/s400/new+tacloban+9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Hardest hit area Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzlJgC9mV-gnP-Qin49RhaCzd3fCnqlWys5Gr3HLvl0TvPn8bZ0UwfH0vp-Co__GtYzAYTLEccD7R8lPpB_vGVqf7KqdKgfX3K-AK53r2LqSDLhyp2I29sHIY4JypraH2v8owXvvd8VTk/s1600/Map+Leyte+Samar.jpg"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPzlJgC9mV-gnP-Qin49RhaCzd3fCnqlWys5Gr3HLvl0TvPn8bZ0UwfH0vp-Co__GtYzAYTLEccD7R8lPpB_vGVqf7KqdKgfX3K-AK53r2LqSDLhyp2I29sHIY4JypraH2v8owXvvd8VTk/s400/Map+Leyte+Samar.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEict0XJNVY9Nfv9C4aAABE8g75VRUhrReSuGxLd49wmIPXFxoV2pTQJNwKOm4WsHST7nziieuYA0CqZuGnHdKrqBR3bZ3qmUYt3cullN8mSuyPnCwKpXT6N81MDq2vRmRG5v3jNUibVBgKb/s1600/Map+Leyte.jpg"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEict0XJNVY9Nfv9C4aAABE8g75VRUhrReSuGxLd49wmIPXFxoV2pTQJNwKOm4WsHST7nziieuYA0CqZuGnHdKrqBR3bZ3qmUYt3cullN8mSuyPnCwKpXT6N81MDq2vRmRG5v3jNUibVBgKb/s400/Map+Leyte.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUTGSSdSEJRia_BHzFaFMo2rIKJNJ4bQ8xD2boXBFEoIx2tT1Fto3tESp5AIFkY1wHmAf2BoJlPa3wcIN0n3r41KTJ0xGgDn5PNeqzSeYJfDbQM7v90f48G9jNBE7ZbvECHeiqDF4kLsLS/s1600/Map+Samar.jpg"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUTGSSdSEJRia_BHzFaFMo2rIKJNJ4bQ8xD2boXBFEoIx2tT1Fto3tESp5AIFkY1wHmAf2BoJlPa3wcIN0n3r41KTJ0xGgDn5PNeqzSeYJfDbQM7v90f48G9jNBE7ZbvECHeiqDF4kLsLS/s400/Map+Samar.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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GIZ Germany zone map of Leyte</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCNxtou-NRKkpx1dE78lW4UOyBdJUaHUX4vNFRZFxqRhf4-GeSPect1wd2gFRKwULBuZXcTqOgQMu7JyJwu62jSUXhP5rBZHmNosLM2feAl2WojOaY3_jp8wKCgHgQ4Uzx62octume/s1600/Neussner_Fig.1-600x979.jpg"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCNxtou-NRKkpx1dE78lW4UOyBdJUaHUX4vNFRZFxqRhf4-GeSPect1wd2gFRKwULBuZXcTqOgQMu7JyJwu62jSUXhP5rBZHmNosLM2feAl2WojOaY3_jp8wKCgHgQ4Uzx62octume/s640/Neussner_Fig.1-600x979.jpg" width="392" /></a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.resourcerecoverymovement.org/p/about.html">RELEVANT INFORMATION ON PROPONENTS</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the 1980s, the proponents were inspired by the resource recovery concept from Finland's
FINKONSULT and the components of the Saemaul Undong model of the Republic of
Korea (South Korea). The resource recovery concept is characterized by its
originators in Finland as a simple cost-saving methodology for organizations
using appropriate technologies that will enable higher prevention of loss and
generate greater savings either at the assembly line or in resource systems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Resulting
from this were studies submitted to the Department of Science and Technology
(DOST) on modeling the Saemaul Undong in the Philippines and beginning a series
of direct actions to promote resource recovery in the Philippines. In 1990, Jose
B. Martinez proposed to the DND to re-activate the Forest Ranger Battalion and
requested the proponents to put together a study that will be submitted to the head
of that agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From
1990-1991, the Philippines experienced two great natural disasters: the Baguio Killer Earthquake in July 16, 1990
and the Mt. Pinatubo eruption nearly one year later in June 15, 1991. In 1992, the proponents were briefed about
the harmful effects of the accumulation of billions of tons of tephra (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_ash" title="Volcanic ash">ash</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapilli" title="Lapilli">lapilli</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_bomb" title="Volcanic bomb">solid
chunks of rock</a>), in the high elevation parts of Zambales, Pangasinan and
other provinces in the vicinity of Pinatubo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
source of the data was a scientist visiting from Germany to study the volcano
and with whom the proponents had a brief but productive encounter. The scientist recommended the seeding of
weeds on the tephra-covered elevated areas around Pinatubo. This insight was
strongly suggested to Malacañang however it was not acted upon. A few months after the letter to the Office
of the President, flash floods hit Pangasinan.
Around eleven barangays were submerged in water and technically
disappeared from the map temporarily.
Lives and property were lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also
in the same year, the proponents conducted a survey on the impact of Pinatubo
with Bulacan as a Case Study and came out with findings that one to a maximum
of three out of ten people in no less than eleven municipalities of Bulacan --
mostly coastal -- excreted minor amounts of blood in their urine. The
proponents also found the potable water in these eleven municipalities,
including Malolos, Bulacan (provincial capital), to be highly salinated and to
be the cause of the internal affliction of some of the respondents. The
proponents campaigned for a solution to the saline water intrusion into the
aquifers of Bulacan that was causing the high salinity content of the
province's potable water. The Congress of the Philippines was moved to
resuscitate an approved and dormant billion-peso fund solely intended for the
water system of Bulacan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the same year, the proponents helped in the campaign began by the Philippine
Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM) to stop the building of a huge
bridge-breakwater from Bataan to Batangas on the premise that the project will
kill Manila Bay. At the time and up to
now, the deterioration of Manila Bay still need to be addressed fully but the
mothballing of the super bridge-breakwater project stemmed the early demise of
the golden sunset bay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Further,
the proponents also strongly advocated the stopping of indiscriminate
conversion of agricultural land for industrial-commercial-residential
usage. During the Kabisig National
Assembly of 1992, Malacañang ordered a moratorium in the land conversion. In
1995, the proponents went into a joint undertaking with the Pangasinan network
of non-government organizations led by Mr. Jose Burgos to carry out
reforestation projects in the province of Pangasinan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At
the time, the proponents observed that the landscape particularly in Central
and Eastern Pangasinan was drastically transformed during the period between
the Baguio Earthquake, the Pinatubo eruption, three to four years hence. The
linking up with the NGO network was borne out by the forecast made in 1983 by
scientists from DOST research and development, Dr. Ponciano Batugal and
company, that Pangasinan will turn into a desert in a span of twenty five
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DISASTER RISK REDUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
1990-1991, the proponents earnestly started the advocacy for a full-function
geographic information system for disaster and environment protection at the Philippines'
Department of National Defense (DND).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Among
these activities was the promotion of Public Warning Systems (PWS) in the
country. In 1992, a total number of
nineteen (19) public sector agencies were enjoined to attend the 1992 PWS
Seminar conducted by experts from Germany led by Dr. Peter Pfeiffer at Camp
General Aguinaldo, Quezon City. This was conducted by the same organizers of
the 2014 summit in cooperation with German technical assistance. Further, the
advocacy for a nationwide Safety agency from Jan 1992 evolved into the
Philippine Safety organization under the Department of Transportation and
Communications in 1995 that became technically enacted into law as the National
Transport Safety Board (NTSB) after having passed the Third Reading and all the
other requirements of legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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proposed safety agency was patterned after the United States NTSB and Singapore’s
Safety Commission. Malacañang’s then acting lady secretary of budget and
management, Ms. Emilia Boncodin, returned the law back to Congress stating that
she will refuse to comply with the requirements of the law because of the
absence of funds for safety in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the time of former Presidents Fidel Valdez Ramos and Jose Marcelo Ejercito
(Joseph Estrada), the advocacy for safe air transport, GIS,
command-control-communications-computer-information (C4I) went into full swing
and the proponents worked actively with specialists from the United States and
not the least among them, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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proponents succeeded in upgrading the CAT Status of the country one rank higher
due to the development of the Master Plan Framework for the Development of Air
Traffic Systems (ATS) in the Philippines.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Harris BankCorp, Inc. (HBCI) under
Harris Corp. (Florida) of the United States provided the initial pledges and
committed to finance the proponents a minimum seed fund of Sixty Million United
States Dollars (USD60,000,000) for the development of Philippine air traffic
and air communications services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the entire Philippine aviation administration is privatized and extensively
under re-engineering and development.
The transport safety Board was never implemented however an Office of
Transport Security modeled after the same structure under the Department of
Homeland Security of the United States is in place.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hazard Mapping Summit Manilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11735117358757688398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-73077628725581502322013-12-05T15:47:00.000-08:002013-12-08T03:49:56.106-08:00Resolving Post-Yolanda Settlement Concerns<div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following executive brief of the proposal for funding for a housing project for Yolanda and future victims of calamities is shown below. It was also published in our social networking site. See </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/disaster-and-environment-hazards-mapping-geospatial/post-disaster-settlements-concern/431780733615222" style="font-size: x-large;">here</a><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<i>A reported 300 Kph-strong, hurricane category 5 tropical cyclone hit the Philippines on November 8, 2013 and devastated a large number of areas located within nine (9) administrative Regions of the country.</i></div>
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<i>The final report on the actual scientific and technical analysis and assessment of this natural phenomenon - its true levels of strength at various stages, identifiable patterns of emergence (if any), and other factors, will take some more time, however the situation on the ground of those that were affected by the disaster needs immediate attention.</i></div>
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<i>Furthermore, also needing immediate and serious attention are the victims of calamities about to occur in the near future in the Metro Manila and surrounding areas. The Philippine Government itself, together with other sectors, have warned that the next big calamity will strike the national capital region itself. These bodes for measures to mitigate the atrocities and huge damages to Metro Manila similar to the ones suffered by the people in Visayas and parts of Mindanao brought about by tropical cyclone Yolanda."It appears that even being able to obtain certain satellite data about a tropical cyclone’s strength, and the inevitable accompanying storm surges as in New York and other parts of USA very recently, due to inferiority the PAGASA cannot shout out its warnings to the public loud enough so the people can feel the poignant threat of what is going to hit them and at what point in time in the near future." </i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">For this reason, we made an </span><a href="http://www.fleurdelisheights.com/2013/11/a-letter-to-investor.html">appeal to the international financial community</a> according to our long-held perspectives for relocation, resettlement of disaster victims, particularly those that live in communities that lie in the direct path of disasters. <a href="http://www.fleurdelisheights.com/2013/11/resolving-post-yolanda-settlement.html">More > ></a></i></div>
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Hazard Mapping Summit Manilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11735117358757688398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-65388642749605744732013-12-04T22:41:00.000-08:002013-12-07T22:42:47.337-08:00HMES Papers a(2)<div style="text-align: center;">
Eastern Visayas: Hardest hit area during Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As earlier stated in this site: "</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The level of confidence with which government addresses the challenges of disaster forecasting is extremely low.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">"It appears that even being able to obtain certain satellite data about a tropical cyclone’s strength, and the inevitable accompanying storm surges as in New York and other parts of USA very recently, due to inferiority the PAGASA cannot shout out its warnings to the public loud enough so the people can feel the poignant threat of what is going to hit them and at what point in time in the near future."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Furthermore, as in the case of Tropical Cyclone Ketsana (Ondoy), the Zamboanga City Siege, the Haiyan (Yolanda), among other disasters, there are a lot of dubious, suspicious, highly contradictory statements and acts by government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has disclosed to national media that on several days prior to November 8-9, 2013, when tropical cyclone Haiyan codenamed Yolanda struck Eastern and Central Visayas, it had issued warnings about storm surge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A weather specialist interviewed over national television sounded extremely defensive during the interview, stating in no uncertain terms that he and his agency (PAGASA), cannot and should never be blamed for not issuing warnings about the storm surge.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Weather Philippines Foundation</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">On the other hand, on 9 PM November 28, 2013, a search over the internet yielded a page called SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN (YOLANDA) UPDATE NUMBER 010 constituting findings by a private weather forecasting entity called The Weather Philippines Foundation (WPF) that stated through a written weather advisory disseminated publicly on the internet, that storm surge of up to 18 feet or 5.5 meters will hit coastal, inland lakes and beach front areas of Eastern Visayas between 8-9 AM of Friday, November 8, 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">WPF is owned by the Aboitiz Group of Companies (owner of Aboitiz Shipping, Union Bank, etc.) and in partnership with the Meteomedia – a Swiss company established in 1990 by its owner, Jörg Kachelmann.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">WPF warned that catastrophic damage is likely on this type of storm surge. Danger from Rip Currents or Rip Tides can be expected along the rest of the beach-front areas of Eastern Luzon, Eastern and Northern Mindanao and the rest of Visayas incl. Palawan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The advisory appeared in the form shown below, but with the supposed caveat that the reader must not use the advisory for life-threatening decisions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SUPER TYPHOON HAIYAN (YOLANDA) UPDATE NUMBER 010 </b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Issued at: 12:00 AM PhT (16:00 GMT) Friday 08 November 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next Update: 6:00 PM PhT (22:00 GMT) Friday 08 November 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Super Typhoon HAIYAN (YOLANDA) has turned into a 305 km/hr howler...and is considered as the most powerful tropical cyclone ever to develop since Super Typhoon Tip of October 1979...moving closer to Eastern Visayas...likely to make landfall over Eastern Leyte or Southern Samar after sunrise today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Residents and visitors along Northeastern Mindanao, Visayas, and Bicol Region should closely monitor the development of Haiyan (Yolanda).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do not use this for life or death decisions. This update is intended for additional information purposes only. Kindly refer to your national weather agency for official warnings, advisories or bulletins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>CURRENT STORM ANALYSIS </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As of 11:00 pm today, the eye of STY Haiyan (Yolanda) was located over the South Philippine Sea...about 320 km east-southeast of Tacloban City, Leyte or 425 km east of Metro Cebu...currently moving very quickly west-northwest with a forward speed of 39 km/hr towards Leyte and Southern Samar Area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maximum Sustained Winds (1-min. avg) have increased to 305 km/hr near the center with higher gusts. Typhoon Force Winds (118 km/hr or more) extend outward up to 95 kilometers from the center...and Tropical Storm Force Winds (63-117 km/hr) extend outward up to 240 kilometers from the center. STY Haiyan is a small-sized tropical cyclone with a diameter of 610 kilometers across. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2-DAY FORECAST OUTLOOK* </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">STY Haiyan is expected to move fast in a generally straight, west-northwest track throughout the forecast period. On the forecast track, the core of STY Haiyan will make landfall over the central-eastern shores of Leyte, about 45 km south of Tacloban City between 8-9 AM Friday and cross Northern Leyte passing over or very close to Ormoc City just around noontime Friday. This Super Typhoon will be passing over the northern tip of Cebu, very close to Bogo City around 2 PM then it will start traversing the North Central part of the Visayas through Friday evening...across Northern Panay (very close to Roxas City and Boracay) late Friday afternoon...and will be in the vicinity of Coron, Palawan by Friday midnight. On Saturday evening, Haiyan (Yolanda) will exit the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">STY Haiyan (Yolanda) will start to weaken slightly within the next 24 through 48 hours as the system makes landfall over North Central Visayas...and will be just a Category 4 TY on Saturday. Advance Intensity Forecast (AIF) shows its 1-minute maximum sustained winds decreasing to just 215 km/hr by Saturday evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The following is the summary of the 2-day forecast outlook and an extended 3-day forecast on this system:</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">FRIDAY EVENING: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Weakens slightly but remains a very dangerous Category 4 Super Typhoon...over Sulu Sea as it approaches Calamian Group...about 75 km WSW of Boracay [8PM NOV 08: 11.6N 121.3E @ 240kph].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SATURDAY EVENING: </b>Moves out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR)...weakens further while over the South China and West Philippine Seas...about 595 km SE of Da Nang, Vietnam [8PM NOV 09: 13.9N 113.3E @ 215kph].</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SUNDAY EVENING:</b> Making landfall along the coast of Central Vietnam...weakens to Category 2...about 70 km NE of Hue, Vietnam [8PM NOV 10: 17.0N 107.2E @ 165kph].</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>*Please be reminded that the Forecast Outlook changes every 6 hours, and the Day 2 and 3 Forecast Track has an average error of 100 and 250 km respectively...while the wind speed forecast error, averages 35 kph per day. Therefore, a turn to the left or right of its future track and changes in its wind speed must be anticipated from time to time.</i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i></i>EFFECTS & HAZARDS SUMMARY </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below is the summary of the storm's parts and its hazards affecting specific areas. You can also view this image link for you to understand the parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>EYEWALL - </b>where Typhoon Conditions with Typhoon Force Winds (>118 kph) will be expected within this wall. Affected Areas: None yet...but approaching the shores of Southern Samar and Leyte. (click here to know more about the Eyewall).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>INNER RAINBANDS - </b>where Tropical Storm Conditions with Tropical Storm Force Winds (63-100 kph) will be expected. Affected Areas: Samar, Leyte, Masbate, and Caraga.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>OUTER RAINBANDS - </b>where Tropical Depression Conditions with light, moderate to strong winds (30-62 kph) will be expected. Affected Areas: Bicol Region, Northern Palawan, Mindoro, Metro Manila, CaLaBaRZon, Rest of Visayas and Mindanao (click here to know more about Rainbands).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>24HR TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATION - </b>from 5 up to 100 mm (slight to heavy rainfall) can be expected along areas affected by the outer & inner rainbands (see above)...with isolated amounts of 101 to 250 mm (heavy) along areas near the center of Haiyan.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING - </b>possible >18 ft (>5.5 m) above normal tide levels... accompanied by large and dangerous battering waves can be expected along the coastal, inland lakes and beach front areas of Eastern Visayas this morning. Catastrophic damage is likely on this type of storm surge. Danger from Rip Currents or Rip Tides can be expected along the rest of the beach-front areas of Eastern Luzon, Eastern and Northern Mindanao and the rest of Visayas incl. Palawan (click here to know more about Storm Surge).--></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Time/Date: 11:00 PM PhT Thu Nov 07, 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Class/Name: STY Haiyan (Yolanda)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Location of Eye: Near 10.4º N Lat 127.8º E Lon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Distance 1: 195 km ENE of Siargao Island</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Distance 2: 295 km SE of Borongan City</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Distance 3: 320 km ESE of Tacloban City</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Distance 4: 355 km ESE of Ormoc City</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Distance 5: 425 km E of Metro Cebu</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">MaxWinds (1-min avg): 305 kph near the center</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peak Wind Gusts: 370 kph</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale: Category 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Present Movement: WNW @ 39 kph</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Towards: Leyte-Southern Samar Area</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CPA [ETA] to Leyte: This Morning [between 8-10AM PhT]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Minimum Central Pressure: 911 millibars (hPa)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meteomedia - a Switzerland firm, can boast publicly of its capability to analyze satellite data even if it issues a waiver that the Philippines' weather bureau is the last stop of the blame in any disaster casualties in the Philippines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, its network of stations, its connections with other scientific entities and institutions, not the least of which should be the Government of Switzerland and its various agencies devoted to weather, disaster, humanitarian activities provide Meteomedia a wide source for its benchmarks and data base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the <a href="http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/">PAGASA</a> to have as large a database as Meteomedia, would be admirable, for which reason, we had embarked into producing this brief presentation paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/">PHIVOLCS</a> and the <a href="http://www.mgb.gov.ph/">MGB</a>, the <a href="http://www.dost.gov.ph/">DOST</a> can all have the benefit of enlarging their database, building a GIS that will be their source of patterns, trends, precedents, guide for issuance of forecasts and appropriate advisories on the proper course of action to take for the public and the government if an activity such as the HMES will be staged either in Manila, or by the United Nations in Sendai, Japan in March 2015 - if the private-led HMES conference that had been rescheduled by Filipino organizers will fail to take off in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was the very same principle embodied in the conference paper on hazards mapping and environment summit in Manila that was given to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in 2009-2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Evidently, the DENR went on its own and undertook hazards mapping with the Mines and Geosciences Bureau as its key responsible agency, providing it a budget of Philippine Pesos Eighteen Million (Php18-M).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such an amount given to the MGB is a very, very measly sum. The organizers for HMES foresee an initial only fund alone for GIS-development on earthquakes, hazards in the environment of United States Dollars Fifty Million Dollars (USD50-M). That will include bare minimum civil works to house the equipment needed for the development of a really decently sized GIS that will help in future forecasting of calamities and prospects of mass casualty incidents (MCI).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As stated in 2010, there is a need for policy regime change, a paradigm shift in the way the Philippine Government treats its scientific and technical sector. In 1995, when nearly everyone was using the latest Windows 95-ready microcomputers, at the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology himself, all the computers including that in the table of the DOST Secretary were old jurassic models and their only running program was Wordstar and an antiquated spreadsheet program. The Secretary's printer wasn't even functioning. Office staff declared, the equipment needed very long due repair. How long ago was that, we asked. They said, almost one year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everywhere you went around the DOST building at the time, you will find then a broken electric fan, broken tables, a lot of broken office appliances signifying a decrepit office that was supposed to be the vanguard of the country's research and development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nearly twenty years ago today, if every division in DOST has the latest 23 inch to 42 inch computer monitors for better graphic manipulation and interfacing in presentations, the best printing equipment, the best computers including a Cray supercomputer for databasing or other mainframes for the same purpose, then it must have modernized since we last promised not to visit it again because of severe heart pain experienced at the sight of the agency's disrepair and backwardness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With a fully throbbing computing system, a huge database and GIS for disaster, it is difficult to go wrong in forecasting. Very difficult. While, as they say, only God can be one hundred percent accurate, having a really modern and complete system can make the forecasting effort yield a final weather or even seismic activity advisory that has a very low percentage for error, or in other words, 90% to 99% accuracy. <a href="http://summit.hazmapping.org/p/paradigm-shift-focus-inordinate-level.html" target="_blank">More > ></a></span></div>
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<i>For I was hungry, and you didn't feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn't give me anything to drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you didn't invite me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me no clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't visit me.' 44 "Then they will reply, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?' 45 And he will answer, 'I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.'</i></div>
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For nearly five years ago today, we have been goading the <a href="http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/">Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)</a> to enhance its satellite capability instead of simply getting hand-me-down issuances from <a href="http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/">UN OOSA</a> (United Nations Outer Space Affairs and the <a href="http://www.noaa.gov/">NOAA</a> (United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the other geospatial information and intelligence agencies all over the world.</div>
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At a certain point in time around the period of the occurrence of the devastation by tropical cyclone Ketsana (Ondoy) in the Philippines, the PAGASA was clamoring for the purchase and installation of its doppler radar system, an outmoded and unreliable system for weather forecasting.</div>
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In 2010, all throughout the government circuit, the company of Mr. Philip King called AAA, went on a lecture-presentation effort to sell the sensing and image capture technology developed by a Malaysian scientist and technology specialist who was also engaged in a similar high technology, extensive venture for the government of Canada, among other countries.</div>
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Had the Department of Science and Technology considered using a network of sensing stations with clear-photo capture capability on a 1-camera-per-station (or possibly a cluster of cameras), weather forecasting in the country, aided with charity hand-outs from NOAA, UNOOSA, the European Union, among other satellite capable agencies, will definitely be more precise at the same time vivid and viewable in real time.</div>
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It was foreseen in this site that absolutely nothing will be allowed by Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) to block its path. As early as the morning of the raging of this typhoon that PAGASA decided to merely attribute the powerful rains and killer floods to monsoons, it was already the consensus among the advocates that started this site that many people will die by Ketsana (Ondoy).</div>
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What kind of weather forecasting transpired during Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) was that by 10:00 AM up to 12:00 noon, PAGASA continued to refuse to declare even a Storm Signal No. 1 for Metro Manila and Rizal Province even at the height of severe rainfall, destructive and killer floods hitting entire subdivisions in Marikina and parts of Rizal, large areas in the urban center of the national capital.</div>
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In real time, it was being recommended strongly by this site that a state of calamity and state of emergency already be declared by the Office of the President.</div>
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When the media started reporting, albeit belatedly, that some people were reportedly getting killed by Ondoy, it may have dawned on PAGASA that their forecast needed to be amended. Nearing nightfall when panic and frenzy hit the public due to massive negative reports reaching media and feedback filtering through to the lower and highest levels of government, PAGASA relented and finally announced Signal No. 1. It was too late, Malacanang was then preparing to announce a serious state of calamity for the entire Metro Manila including parts of Rizal.</div>
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Hundreds died in Provident Village in Marikina. Hundreds died inside a popular Mall at the Riverside commercial complex built beside the huge Marikina River. Still hundreds others were swept by raging waters or seriously injured by stampeding objects and died instantly or were killed by being in the flood and unable to get help for their injuries.</div>
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If the PAGASA did actually issue a warning, albeit introvertedly and timidly, about the storm surge in coordination with the rest of government, the evidence of the storm surge warning only appears at 5:00 AM on d-day, three hours before the storm surge has hit Tacloban City on November 8, 2013 in the national disaster risk reduction agency (<a href="http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/">NDRRMC</a>) Advisory called <a href="http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/Update%20SWB%20No.6%20re%20TY%20YOLANDA%205AM.pdf">Severe Weather Bulletin No. 6</a>.</div>
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Still and all, much, much earlier that day, Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) already passed through Tolosa, Leyte and hit neighboring towns beginning its slew of devastations across the entire length of nine Regions of the Philippines.</div>
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o NDRRMC Operations Center disseminated Severe Weather Bulletin No. 6 on Typhoon "Yolanda" to all OCD Regional Centers through SMS and facsimile and uploaded on the NDRRMC website for further dissemination to their respective local disaster risk reduction and management councils (LDRMMCs) from the provincial down to the municipal levels </div>
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o Directed RDRRMCs concerned through the OCD Regional Centers to undertake precautionary measures in their areas of responsibility (AOR) and subsequently advised local DRRMCs to initiate pre-emptive evacuation of families in low-lying and mountainous areas if situation warrants.</div>
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Had the one preparing the Severe Weather Bulletin (SWB) not merely cut and paste from one SWB to the next as can be observed in the various and different advisories issued by the NDRRMC, it must have been possible to introduce some new wording into these so-called severe bulletins.</div>
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The NDRRMC should have issued directives instead of the de cajon ACTION TAKEN jargon of "take precautionary measures." The directives could have contained marching orders coursed through the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Councils (RDRRMC) of which the following are members, such as:</div>
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In connection with the warning of the threat of 21-foot or 7-meter high wave height as stated above, the AFP is hereby ordered to undertake, without need of callback and setoffs, forced evacuation to higher ground of all affected elements and population. . . This is not a drill.</div>
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In connection with the warning of the threat of 21-foot or 7-meter high wave height as stated above, the PNP is hereby ordered to provide all manner of assistance to the AFP in the forced evacuation of all affected Service elements and population to higher ground, without need for callback and set off. This is not a drill.</div>
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In connection with the warning of the threat of 21-foot or 7-meter high wave height as stated above, you are hereby ordered to comply with the forced evacuation order issued to AFP and PNP and to provide all manner of assistance and coordination with all affected officers and personnel of your agency and every item of relief designated for the evacuees, without any need for callback and set off. This is not a drill. . . .</div>
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Just because the so-called Severe Weather Bulletin, did not emphatically state to forcefully execute an evacuation to safer ground, people who were caught by the storm surge unaware, got drowned and helplessly died under these 21-foot high waves from storm surges.</div>
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In Ground Zero in Tacloban City, two sets of 20-foot high waves converged from opposite directions to create more or less 40-foot high deluges. Even several hundred-ton to several thousand-ton ships were lifted by these approximately 15-meter high waves and brought into the ground in Tacloban City.</div>
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If multiple thousand ton objects such as ships, as in the Japan tsunami of 2011, could be lifted by the storm surge into the ground in Tacloban City, it would have been impossible for many people to survive the power and strength of the raging waters, accompanied by the stampede of debris from everything that the flash floods caught along the way.</div>
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All the rest of the highly authoritative Severe Weather Bulletins of NDRRMC do not contain a definitive order to evacuate nor even a redundant very stern warning about storm surge and a powerful order to vacate unsafe ground to ensure one's safety and survival.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Update%20re%20SWB%20no.%2012%20(final)%20for%20TY%20Yolanda,%209%20Nov%202013.pdf"><img src="http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/components/com_attachments/media/icons/pdf.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.ndrrmc.gov.ph/attachments/article/1124/NDRRMC%20Update%20re%20SWB%20no.%2012%20(final)%20for%20TY%20Yolanda,%209%20Nov%202013.pdf">NDRRMC Update re SWB No.12 (FINAL) for Typhoon YOLANDA (HAIYAN)</a></span><br />
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Hazard Mapping Summit Manilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11735117358757688398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-16998340950889374462013-11-23T03:57:00.000-08:002013-12-08T03:57:36.905-08:00New prospects and directions<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The recent disaster in Visayas as shown in the photos below from open sources, galvanized our resolve to take new directions and work on new prospects. We will do our share in the rebuilding of </span><a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/74507/tallying-yolandas-impact--disaster-officials-build-up-data-on-shared-misery-across-9-regions" style="font-size: x-large;">these lost social </a><a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/74507/tallying-yolandas-impact--disaster-officials-build-up-data-on-shared-misery-across-9-regions" style="font-size: x-large;">enclaves in all of 9 regions</a><span style="font-size: large;">, formerly lively, dynamic, alive and healthily breathing communities now reduced to tatters, broken down to no-man's lands.</span></div>
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We fully understand the difficulty with which people in the government are responding to the horrendous affair. The politicians will always be politicians, undressed down to their birthday suits, the mark will always be there. Our government workers will not be able to do anything on their own without the pols who are <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/529621/roxas-muscling-romualdez-out-of-tacloban-city-hall">fighting each other</a>.</div>
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The determination of our group, is for private sector to enter into the picture. What may be better is for the business sector to band together and achieve results on its own, without bothering the public sector.</div>
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A distinct feature of our plan however, is placing some focus on <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2011/11/10-relocation-disasters-cc-ferris">relocation</a>. For instance, Tacloban and Samar households along the coasts will always be in <a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/11/13/leaked-report-on-climate-change-warns-of-disasters/">danger from storm surge, tidal wave, tsunami and other similar events</a> that are <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/global-warming-expected-to-worsen-starvation-wars-and-natural-disasters-report-finds">ever worsening and growing fiercer every year</a>. <a href="http://www.fleurdelisheights.com/2013/11/new-prospects-and-directions.html" target="_blank">More > ></a></div>
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Hazard Mapping Summit Manilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11735117358757688398noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-32701860103721630482013-11-22T09:44:00.001-08:002013-11-22T09:44:12.278-08:00Letter from the Philippines to the Secretary General of the United NationsOpen Letter to the United Nations<br />
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HIS EXCELLENCY<br />
BAN KI MOON<br />
Secretary General<br />
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Dearest Secretary General Ban:<br />
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Our warmest greetings!<br />
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Kindly please understand, I had seriously debated on whether to send this communication to you or not. I decided on going through with it since I believe that the result would turn out for the better. Nothing that transpired in the past has diminished nor degraded my respect and love for the UN. I have no intention in demeaning anyone's position or creating anything negative between myself, my group and the UN even if that can't be helped, but this has to be done, and I shall humbly embrace the consequences of my act.<br />
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After tropical cyclone Haiyan aka Yolanda, not a surprising lot of relief organizations are now helping in Tacloban, in the towns of Leyte, Samar, Cebu, Bohol, Capiz, Aklan, even parts of Mindanao. Entire states committed volumes of resources to come to the aid of the Philippines. As published in the media, the Philippine Government stated that the affected areas include nine (9) Regions in the entire archipelago that consists of seventeen (17) Regions, with three (3) Regions being small and newly created divisions that were fairly recently separated by Special Law (CAR, ARMM and Caraga). It is presumed that all of these relief organizations and representatives of their own countries are operating out of the goodness of heart and the desire to be of sincere help to the people of Tacloban City, the municipalities of Leyte, Samar, Cebu, Bohol, Capiz, Aklan, portions of Mindanao. Although some are at a loss to convince others of their intentions: "just wait... in due time we are convince you of our legitimaty."<br />
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Some of these relief organizations are part and parcel of the United Nations organization. Be that as it may, most or all of these organizations anyway, under the principle that all states are municipalities embraced by the founding charter of League of Nations that is now the United Nations, are governed under the auspices of the august body that you head. The people of Tacloban City and the rest of the areas affected by the tropical cyclone Haiyan aka Yolanda, are grateful for all of the help of the UN, the honorable member states under it and the public sector as well as private relief groups that are now helping. <a href="http://www.hazmapping.com/2013/11/letter-to-ban-ki-moon.html" target="_blank">More > ></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08356040070817342750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-32913703336893221502013-10-16T02:23:00.000-07:002013-12-08T03:00:43.028-08:00Will there be more Killer Quakes?<div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From over 40 casualties, the death toll has risen to nearly 100 in the Carmen, Bohol Province-Cebu City earthquake. At that figure, the Carmen-Cebu tremor can qualify as a Killer Quake. Cebu and nearby areas has to be declared to be in a state of calamity. There are limited manuevers that aircraft can make at the Cebu airport due to the cracking and opening up of the airport's runways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The six million dollar question is: how many more incidents like those in Carmen, Bohol and Cebu City and the other ones in Leyte, Samar will we be expecting?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Were the <a href="http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/" target="_blank">Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvolcs)</a> prepared adequately enough with equipment to monitor ground movement, tectonic plate disturbance, the nearly 100 deaths could have been avoided. 27 Billion Philippine Pesos is earmarked for pork barrel in the 2014 General Appropriations Act out of a total expenditure program of 2.26 Trillion Philippine Pesos. Would it be difficult to allocate even half of that pork barrel budget for emergency preparedness, disaster risk reduction, equipment upgrade?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This site has been warning the public for more than four years since the time of the former President, <a href="http://kgma.org/" target="_blank">Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.</a> Due to the total torpedoing of the private sector (Corinthian Gardens, Forbes Park, Dasmarinas Village, the owners of high rise condominiums at the left side of EDSA southbound, among others), of the program for predicting highly lethal effects of a major tremor in Metro Manila and the replication of this effort in many urban areas in the country by the same sector in collusion with some corrupt officials in the government, a</span><span style="font-size: large;"> large disaster and environmental hazards summit was proposed to be supported by the Philippine Government and the United Nations, among other institutions from many other sectors - including the non-profit (minus the Napoles et al NGOs).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The head of the Philvolcs, Dr. Renato Solidum absolutely cannot be faulted and is blameless. For decades, had been ready to accept the support for equipment upgrade and modernization. Despite the billions of funds allocated to the departments of the government, the great oversight of perpetually forgetting to take care of the Philvolcs modernization programme has consistently been committed by this government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Despite the billions lost for the personal enrichment of selected persons in our public sector and their intimate partners in very enterprising undertakings in the private sector, no one has shown keen interest in allowing the Philvolcs to finally get hold of the adequate funding for acquisition of hardware and software that will highly increase its forecasting accuracy and its earthquake trending studies and research on the major faults all over the country. <a href="http://www.hazmapping.com/2013/10/how-many-more-negros-bohol-earthquakes.html" target="_blank">Click here for more.</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08356040070817342750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-73927059573510367722013-06-11T22:46:00.002-07:002013-06-11T22:46:42.198-07:00Hans Sy now active in UN affairsMr. Hans Sy, son of SM founder Mr. Henry Sy, is now active in the <a href="http://www.unisdr.org/" target="_blank">United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)</a>.<br />
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Hans joined the <a href="http://www.unisdr.org/partners/private-sector" target="_blank">UNISDR Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG)</a> and has since attended various conferences and represented the Philippines and his family's group of companies in UNISDR assemblies and functions.HMES 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/12394823321069034777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-34664303156051392952009-11-01T17:45:00.000-08:002009-11-01T18:14:24.390-08:00Contingency Planning Summit<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"><strong>Severe space storm coming</strong></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;">As if Hurricane Katrina in the US, iceberg meltdown in the North Pole, the Typhoons Frank, Ondoy, Pepeng, Lupit in the Philippines and the tsunamis of Southeast Asia were not enough, the world has to prepare from between 2010 - 2013 for severe space storms caused by what NASA predicted as solar maximum occurrence similar to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859">the solar storm British astronomer Richard Carrington</a> observed in 1859.NASA reports that:</span></p><blockquote><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;">The 1859 storm - known as the "Carrington Event" after astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare -- electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers so bright that people could read newspapers by their red and green glow. A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could case $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery. For comparison, Hurricane Katrina caused "only $80 to 125 billion in damage.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;"> <a title="Solar Storm" href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm" target="_blank">See the NASA forecast here</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;">The need to plot strategies, programs, plans and target activities for when this event will happen is the reason for the 2010 Geo Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit. Despite the HMES 2010 advocacy to strengthen the gathering of information from outer space, using high technology implements, there is absolutely no contradiction to proposing measures to undertake mapping while knowing fully well about the forthcoming severe space event.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;">HMES 2010 is merely a pro-active measure to produce a wholly functional cooperation on creating the road map today for what is to take place between 2010 or 2011 up to 2013.While it is true that GIS could be reliant upon information from outer space, the heart of the HMES 2010 conference is to plot out a mechanism whereby a highly usable hazard map would be drawn today, before the space storms happen and other more dangerous disasters take place and put in place <strong>special contingency plans </strong>for unveiling and assembling properly stored devices unharmed from the effects of the magnetic storm. For all purposes and intents, the replacement equipment and infrastructure might be downgrades of the original structure destroyed by the solar calamity, making do with earth based remote sensing and even line of sight data and digital video transmission, at least the world will not be blind.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;"><strong>The organizers of HMES 2010 envisioned creating from out of the existing world geo hazard map, a back up hazard GIS and response plan that will be maximum safe kept -- possibly in a demagnetized environment -- and taken out when the Carrington-event type of disaster or the combination of that event and other calamities strikes the planet.</strong></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;">All measures relevant to humanitarian assistance should already be laid out in advance and implemented to a T at the appointed time.<br /></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;">Since this is not easily done without proper consensus, UN member nations must agree to the proposal, vote as one and willingly sign the attendant declaration of solidarity</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;">.</span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">———————————————————————</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;"><strong>Possibly related articles:</strong><br /></span></p><ul><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;"><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bracing-for-a-solar-superstorm">Solar storm: Preparing satellite infrastructure</a><br /></span></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1171951/Meltdown-A-solar-superstorm-send-dark-ages--just-THREE-years.html">Disaster Scenarios on a solar super storm</a><br /></span></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12595708/ns/technology_and_science-space/">Scientists on solar super storm</a><br /></span></li><li style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13;"><a href="http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2010/TTT/">SunEarthDay - NASA: Some Good News On The Solar Super Storm</a> </span></li></ul>HMES 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/12394823321069034777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-55976002846483102372009-11-01T17:22:00.000-08:002009-11-01T17:25:53.576-08:00Letter to the United Nations Secretary General<span >October 31, 2009</span><br /><br /><span ><strong>HIS EXCELLENCY</strong><br /><span ><strong>BAN KI-MOON<br /></strong></span><span ><strong>Secretary General</strong></span><br /><span ><strong>United Nations</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span >Dear <strong>Mr. Secretary General:</strong></span><br /><br /><span >Greetings!</span><br /><br /><span >Every 5th of June since 1972 is commemorated by the United Nations as the World Environment Day.</span><br /><br /><span >In 2010-2011, scientists report that there will be a solar maximum that has not occurred since fifty years ago as reported in this article from Science@NASA:</span><br /><blockquote><span >a (solar) storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958. <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm">Read more about it here</a></span></blockquote><span >This and other factors will result in major disasters during the period in question. Our group of professionals advocating environment protection and disaster damage diminution respectfully request the United Nations to support our effort to organize a Geo Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit in 2010 and we are determined that this gathering be convened in Manila, Philippines.</span><br /><br /><span >In this connection, may we respectfully request the following:</span><br /><br /><span >1. United Nations and its concerned departments participate in the Summit and help in organizing said event </span><br /><span >2. The Year 2010 be declared as the International Geo Hazard Mapping Year </span><br /><span >3. The month of April 2010 be declared as the International Disaster Risk Reduction Month; and finally, </span><br /><span >4. The date of April 17, 2010 be declared as the first World Hazards Awareness Day.</span><br /><br /><span >That these declarations be formally announced in Manila prior to the Summit.</span><br /><br /><span >Thank you ever so much! Mabuhay!!!</span><br /><br /><span >Respectfully yours,</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span ><strong>Organizers HMES 2010</strong></span><br /><strong></strong>HMES 2014http://www.blogger.com/profile/12394823321069034777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145394116448405847.post-35721740336195894892009-10-28T18:04:00.000-07:002009-11-02T06:07:40.378-08:00Local People Starting To Move<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;"><strong>Politics and Science should meet</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">On Monday, October 26, 2009, the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) held an ANC Forum dubbed as “Wired for Disasters”. Figures from the academe and science were invited by ANC and participated in the forum. The <a href="http://abs-cbnnews.com/" target="_blank" title="ABS-CBN">ABS-CBN website</a> published a <a href="http://abs-cbnnews.com/nation/10/27/09/technologys-role-disaster-mitigation-cited">brief item about the forum</a> on the internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Mahar Lagmay of the University of the Philippines National Institute of Geological Sciences (UP-NIGS) said that they are developing a map of flood-prone areas with the help of UP-NIGS research assistants and the Ateneo de Manila University's Manila Observatory.</span><br />
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</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">The Climate Change Act of 2009, which President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed into law, puts local government units into the center stage of governance, given the important roles city, town, and barangay leaders play in the implementation of whatever plans and programs on climate change adaptation and mitigation measures that will be crafted by a body tasked under the new law.<br />
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</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt;">Returning from Japan last year, Mr. Michael Buquid says: "They build their streets, bridges, etc. differently in Japan. They build them in layers and layers that when it rains, you can't even see water piling up to a few millimeters on the street surface. All of the rainwater get's soaked up inside the layers. It might be raining hard in Tokyo streets and bridges, but you can see the surface. No rain piles up on top. Amazing!"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt;">And of course we were told long ago how a Japanese architect instructed a local contractor: "You Filipinos build street first. Then when remember, you build sewer. Japan, many years ago already, we do not first build street; we build sewer. If sewer working, we put street on top." Good. But that was said in 1990. It is now 2009.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt;">Well, one doesn't have to go all that far. In Sendakan, that is only a stone's throw away from one of the Philippines' last island in the far Southerns, Taganak Island (it's so small you wonder how they even got a Chinese Mayor there), they're so environment conscious. Sendakan people have been very guarding and protective of their home towns and home province and the even birds frequent their place. That made them a bird watchers' paradise. They earn so much tourist revenues just from bird watchers. I'm even writing a book slowly about that subject.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt;">Some coordination the soon-to-be created, new Climate Change Commission will be doing indeed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt;">And what about the Philippine version of the Japanese <strong>buraku min </strong>who thrive in our own sewerages and the sewers and other areas underneath bridges?</span><br />
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