SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter...
-
Upload
jessica-underwood -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
0
Transcript of SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter...
![Page 1: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines,
Taiwan, and ChinaSeptember 20, 2013
Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna,
Virginia, USA
![Page 2: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The most powerful typhoon of the 2013 season approached the
northern Philippines and southern Taiwan on Friday (Sept. 20) with wind reaching 300 kph (184 mph)
and torrential rain
TSUNAMI ROUND TABLE
AUGUST 7, 2005
![Page 3: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
SUPER TYPHOON USAGI NEAR THE PHILIPPINES
![Page 4: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
SUPER TYPHOON USAGI: FORECAST
![Page 5: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
POTENTIAL DISASTER AGENTS OF USAGI
• Usagi has a diameter of 1,100 kilometers (660 miles), with outer rain bands extending across the main northern Philippine island of Luzon and southern Taiwan.
• Forecasters predict 24-hour rainfall accumulation of 500 millimeters (nearly 20 inches) near its center.
![Page 6: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
WIND AND WATER PENETRATE BUILDING ENVELOPE
SEVERE
WINDSTORMS
SEVERE
WINDSTORMS
UPLIFT OF ROOF SYSTEM
FLYING DEBRIS PENETRATES WINDOWS
STORM SURGE AND HEAVY PRECIPITATION
IRREGULARITIES IN ELEVATION AND PLAN
POOR WORKMANSHIP
IGNORING NON-STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
CAUSES OF RISK
CAUSES OF RISK
CASE HISTORIESCASE HISTORIES
![Page 7: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
ANTICIPATORY ACTIONS: THE PHILIPPINES
• In the Philippines, the Batanes Islands are under the highest storm alert
• Government officials warned of flash floods, landslides and storm surge in 15 northern provinces.
![Page 8: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
ANTICIPATORY ACTIONS: TAIWAN
• In Taiwan, hundreds of people are being evacuated from flood-prone areas near cities and in remote mountainous regions
![Page 9: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
ANTICIPATORY ACTIONS: CHINA
• The Guangdong-Hong Kong coastline of China is preparing for Usagi’s arrival on Sunday as a weakened storm with maximum sustained winds of 158 kph (98 mp).
![Page 10: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
In Hong Kong, a city rarely hit by typhoons, officials warned that the
storm posed a “severe threat,” urging residents to be ready for
strong winds and possible flooding
![Page 11: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
The provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Fujian are expected
to be at high risk as Usagi gradually moves northwestward.
![Page 12: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
BENEFIT/COST OF BECOMING TYPHOON DISASTER RESILIENTBENEFIT/COST OF BECOMING
TYPHOON DISASTER RESILIENT
PREPAREDNESS, PROTECTION, EARLY WARNING, EM. RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY
BUILDS RESILIENCE
1 < BENEFIT/COST < 1,000
PREPAREDNESS, PROTECTION, EARLY WARNING, EM. RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY
BUILDS RESILIENCE
1 < BENEFIT/COST < 1,000
![Page 13: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
September 20-21
![Page 14: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Impacts in The Philippines
ONLY 2 DEAD; MANY LEFT HOMELESS
![Page 15: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
MANILA: SIGNS OF USAGI’S APPROACH
![Page 16: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
USAGI: WIND AND WATER DAMAGE
![Page 17: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
USAGI: MUDSLIDES
![Page 18: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
USAGI: WIND DAMAGE
![Page 19: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
USAGI: WIND DAMAGE
![Page 20: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
USAGI: LAST MINUTE EVACUATIONS
![Page 21: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
USAGI: FLOODING
![Page 22: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
USAGI: A RESCUE
![Page 23: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
September 22
![Page 24: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Impacts in Taiwan
No dead
![Page 25: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
![Page 26: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
TAIWAN: STORM SURGE
• Adding to the concern for loss of lives and property, a devastating storm surge of 3 to 5 m (10 to 18 feet) occurred along the southeastern coast simultaneously with heavy rain
![Page 27: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
HIGH TIDES
![Page 28: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
USAGI: AS A RAINMAKER
• In Taiwan, the storm system dumped more than 20 cm (8 inches) of rain along the eastern and southern coasts in a 13-hour period, causing officials to warn that a total rainfall of 100 cm (40) inches could happen before the storm leaves the region on Sunday.
![Page 29: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
TAIWAN: POWER OUTAGES
• More than 88,000 households were without electricity as of 5 p.m. yesterday, state-run Taiwan Power reported.
![Page 30: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Impacts in China(Note: Usagi has weakened to the
equivalence of a CAT 2 hurricane)
![Page 31: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Usagi will probably make landfall on the central-eastern coast of China’s Guangdong
province sometime between this afternoon and tomorrow
morning
![Page 32: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
A SIGN THAT USAGI IS APPROACHING
![Page 33: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
CREDIT
• Visitors take pictures of increasing waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, September 22, 2013.
• Credit: Reuters/Chance Chan
![Page 34: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
EVACUATIONS AND PRECAUTIONS
• More than 80,000 people were moved to safer ground in Fujian province,
• Authorities in Guangdong have asked more than 44,000 fishing boats to return to port.
![Page 35: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
HONG KONG: ANOTHER SIGN OF USAGI’S APPROACH
![Page 36: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
HONG KONG: SCHOOLS CLOSED
![Page 37: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
HONG KONG’s GROCERY STORES CROWDED
![Page 38: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
HONG KONG’s GROCERY STORE SHELVES
![Page 39: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
HONG KONG: WINDY, BUT NOT TOO BAD
![Page 40: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
HONG KONG: AIRLINE TRAVEL DISRUPTED
• Eighty flights cancelled.
• Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. (293), Hong Kong’s largest airline, and its unit Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd. stopped Hong Kong operations through Sept. 23rd.
![Page 41: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
LANDFALLSunday, September 22
7:40 pm local time
![Page 42: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
GOOD NEWS:Typhoon Usagi veered away from Hong Kong at the last minute and made landfall 140 km (84 miles)
northeast of Hong Kong near Shanwei in the Guangdong
Province.
![Page 43: SUPER TYPHOON USAGI Headed Towards The Philippines, Taiwan, and China September 20, 2013 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia,](https://reader031.fdocuments.net/reader031/viewer/2022013004/56649ebb5503460f94bc3faf/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
HONG KONG DODGED A BULLET: 7:40 PM SUNDAY NIGHT