Tsunami Preparedness & Tsunami Inundation Mapping for Alaska Coastal Communities

Alaska Highlights for 2011

NTHMP - CC Meeting San Diego, CA February 8-9, 2012

Ervin Petty, Alaska Division of Homeland Security & Emergency ManagementRoger Hansen, University of Alaska Fairbanks –Geophysical Institute

2011 Alaska Warnings

• March 10: Tohoku Event• 5 Aleutian communities evacuated.

• June 2: Amukta Pass

• September 23: Amukta Pass

Unalaska EvacuationJune 2011

Unalaska

October 2011

2012 TR Target Communities Saint Paul Cold Bay Cordova Whittier

Sitka

Tsunami Operations Workshop

• Tsunami & Earthquake Science• Preparedness• Warning

Reception/Dissemination• Evac Planning exercise• Recovery

• TsunamiReady requirements

Sitka Tsunami Ops Workshop> 40 members attended> 20 Communities

SchoolVisits

Drop….Cover…Hold On!

Siren Installations

Saint Paul

Sitka

Kake (2)KarlukLarsen Bay

Tsunami Sign Program

Installed in 2011

Unalaska

Spring 2012 Installation

Cordova

Cold Bay

Whittier

NOAA Weather Radios

50 will be distributed to communities where NOAA Weather Radio reception is available.

Tsunami Interactive Kiosk

Valdez, AlaskaFirst visitor!

Installing interactive kiosk in Valdez museum annex

Tsunami Interactive Kiosk

Kodiak, AlaskaFirst visitors!

Tsunami Interactive Kiosk

Kodiak, AlaskaInstall crew!

Outreach Materials

Alaska Tsunami Inundation Mapping

Roger Hansen, Elena Suleimani, Dmitry NicolskyAlaska Earthquake Information Center

Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Erv PettyAlaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency

Management

Rod CombellickAlaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys

Review and publication process complete

Whittier