Join UCL Warning Research Centre's upcoming webinar to reflect on the 20 year anniversary of the far-reaching and impactful Andaman Sumatra earthquake.
This event is free.
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UCL Warning Research Centre
20 years ago, the Andaman Sumatra earthquake was the second largest earthquake recorded on a seismograph at 9.1–9.3 MW generating a wide-scale Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 225,000 people in about a dozen countries on 26 December 2004 at 07:58:53 local time.
One of the key issues during the tsunami was that there was no warning system established in the Indian Ocean to detect tsunamis or to warn the general populace living around the ocean. Despite a lag of up to several hours between the earthquake and tsunami in some locations, people were taken by surprise, and were killed. What is even more tragic is that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) detected the earthquakes and were aware that a large tsunami was likely to have been generated, but they had no capacity to inform the locations to provide a warning. Following the establishment of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System in 2006 numerous warnings for tsunamis have been issued.
This event will reflect on lessons identified and learnt following 2004, and to consider what future challenges remains.
Format: Webinar - free registration. Links to the Zoom webinar will be circulated to registered attendees in good time ahead of the session. Please ensure you're checking the email address used for booking regularly.
Chaired by: Carina Fearnley, Professor in Warnings and Science Communication, Director, UCL Warning Research Centre
Speakers (full bios are below):
- Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL Department for Risk and Disaster Reduction and UCL Institute for Global Health
- Fatemeh Jalayer, Professor of Geophysical Hazard Risks, UCL Department for Risk and Disaster Reduction
- Dr Jonatan Lassa, Senior scientist, Disaster Risk Management, GNS Science, Te Pῡ Ao
- Mujiburrahman Thontowi, Senior Consultant, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Photo credit: David Rydevik (email: david.rydevikgmail.com), Stockholm, Sweden., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
About the Speakers
Dr Jonatan Lassa
Dr Jonatan Lassa is an interdisciplinary social scientist with an engineering background. He is currently Senior scientist in Disaster Risk Management at GNS in New Zealand. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian, Emergency & Disaster Management at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He served as an adjunct fellow at RSIS, NTU, and Senior Fellow at Resilient Development Initiative and Institute of Resource Governance and Social Change in Indonesia. His research interest covers institutional and policy dimension of disaster and climate adaptation, mitigation, political will for resilience, early warning systems, recovery policy, disaster governance, food systems, complex network, humanitarian NGOs and human security. His area of interest includes, but is not limited to, Southeast Asia and Pacific.
Prof. llan Kelman
Prof. llan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org; (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations http://www.islandvulnerability.org; and (iii) risk education for health and disasters http://www.riskred.org.
Prof. Fatemeh Jalayer
Prof. Fatemeh Jalayer completed her PhD at Stanford University on probabilistic seismic risk assessment and is co-recipient of the 2003 Normal Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for seminal work on the probabilistic basis of SAC/FEMA guidelines. Her work on simplified reliability formulation has been implemented in the draft European standard for seismic-resistant design (Eurocode 8) as the simplified reliability-based verification format. She has worked extensively on improving and validating the efficient non-linear dynamic analysis procedure “Cloud Analysis” which has been adopted in the vulnerability modelling of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). Currently Fatemeh is coordinator of the European Tsunami Risk Service (ETRiS) and chair of the European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard and Risk (EFEHR), and is leading the UK NERC funded project PCTWIN (People-Centred Tsunami Early Warning for the Indian Coastlines).
Mujiburrahman Thontowi
Mujiburrahman Thontowi has 18 years of experience in the humanitarian sector and is currently the senior consultant at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) managing the Project to enhance disaster risk reduction through improving disaster risk information and communication framework in Indonesia. Previously served as the Humanitarian Coordinator at Save the Children Indonesia, managing the emergency response throughout Indonesia. He started his career with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) responding to the 2006 earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java that devastated his home town. In 2018 he started research at Charles Darwin University on MHEWS in Indonesia focusing on case studies in Bali and Lombok Island.
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