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On Earthquakes

Preparedness in Israel

Dr. Avi Shapira

Chairman of the Steering Committee

National Steering Committee for Earthquake

Preparedness (Israel)

The Dead Sea Fault System

Meghraoui et al., 2003

The fault

14 m

1837 1759

746

1927

1068

1202

363

746 , Sussitta

2 m

N

Marco et al. 1997

1927 Jericho

Nablus

Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat , 22 November 1995, Mw=7.2

Earthquake Epicenters

located by the Israeli Seismic

Network (1980-2005)

Ministry of National Infrastructures

Inter-ministerial Steering Committee for

Earthquake Preparedness

EARTHQUAKES DO NOT KILL, BUILDINGS DO !

תאוצת הקרקע

המירביתMinistry of National Infrastructures

Inter-ministerial Steering Committee for

Earthquake Preparedness

FOCUS ON

PREVENSION AND

MITIGATION

RATHER THAN ON

RESPONSE

o35

o32

TEL-AVIV

200000

650000

•Instructions for land use planning

(identification of seismic &

geological hazards).

•Regulating Risk Management

programs in the industry.

National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness

(Israel)

STRENGTHENING EXISTING

BUILDINGS

•New technologies.

•Government buildings.

•National Plan for private dwellings.

National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness

(Israel)

P 6-8 km/sec S 3-4 km/sec

Warning

time

Dangerous

shaking

Propagation

time of P

waves

TIME

No Prediction but

Possible real time

warning

National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness

(Israel)

If we do not prepare for

earthquakes …..

we have to prepare for a

disaster!

National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness

(Israel)

Life saving:

•Civil Search and Rescue teams

•Immediate damage assessments.

(Real Time Earthquake Scenario)

National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness

(Israel)

Awareness

What to do before, during

and after.

National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness

(Israel)

The prime responders to

an Earthquake catastrophe

are the Local Authority

and the Local Population

National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness

(Israel)

THANK YOU !

Jerusalem, July 11, 1927