Make an action plan to deal with earthquake disaster to create awareness among the
people to reduce the loss. (in 2 pages)
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CHAPTER 3
AWARENESS AND EDUCATION
The key to reducing loss of life, personal injuries, and damage from natural disasters is widespread public awareness and education. People must be made aware of what natural hazards they are likely to face in their own communities. They should know in advance what specific preparations to make before an event, what to do during a hurricane, earthquake, flood, fire, or other likely event, and what actions to take in its aftermath.
Equally important, public officials and the media — television, radio, and newspapers — must be fully prepared to respond effectively, responsibly, and speedily to large-scale natural emergencies. They need to be aware, in advance, of procedures to follow in a crisis that threatens to paralyze the entire community they serve, and they need to know how to communicate accurate information to the public during a natural disaster.
Special efforts must also be made to reach and plan for the care of particularly vulnerable segments of the population — latch-key children, the elderly, individuals in health care and correctional facilities, people with disabilities, and those who do not speak English — with information about possible disasters and what to do in an emergency.
The Committee recommends that community-wide awareness and education programs about natural disasters be made a national priority.
To achieve this goal, the Committee proposes that information campaigns and educational efforts be developed and that their effectiveness be evaluated and, where possible, continually improved:
Home. Household survival plans should provide basic information on what hazardous events are most likely to occur in particular communities, what emergency equipment and supplies should be on hand, what precautions should be taken to limit damage, and what preparations should be made for escape and evacuation. Such information might best be conveyed graphically, both in print and on television. Dramatic, easily recognizable graphic symbols signifying each natural hazard should be created and widely publicized to identify impending emergencies and quickly alert the public to the degree of seriousness and the imminence of danger.
To stimulate public awareness, brochures, posters, games, calendars, museum exhibits, public service announcements (for print, radio, and television), and even entertainment programming should be used. Materials produced by the American Red Cross, FEMA, the National Weather Service (NWS), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and other government agencies as well as insurance companies and other private sector entities are already available for such campaigns. (See Figure 2.) Organizations in the private sector, including the Advertising Council, public utilities, public relations firms, advertising agencies, and voluntary organizations, should be enlisted to create, produce, and disseminate new information materials.
The community. Community-wide planning and education should be encouraged. Schools, government organizations, community and church groups, business and neighborhood organizations, hospital and medical groups, and the news media should all be involved. Checklists, information handouts, and training videos should be created and widely distributed to convey such information as the location of nearby emergency resources and appropriate use of the 911 system both during and after a disaster. Regional and community demonstration programs, disaster day exercises, volunteer courses, and conferences should be undertaken and evaluated for their effectiveness.
Answer:Need of the Plan
Gujarat is located in the Himalayan
Collision Zone where Indo-Australian
tectonic plate slides under Eurasian
Plate causing active fault lines
beneath. The Vulnerability Atlas of
India (BMTPC, 1997) classifies Gujarat
into four classes based on a base of
10.3 million buildings recorded in the
1991 Census and BIS standard (IS: 1893
1984). As per the classification 19% of
the total area in Gujarat is at a very
high risk for earthquake, i.e. seismic
zone V, 13% area of the state is at a
high risk for earthquake, i.e. seismic
zone IV, another 66% area of the state
is at a moderate risk for earthquake,
i.e. seismic zone III and only 1% area of
the state is at a low risk for earthquake,
i.e. seismic zone II.
Earthquake Management Plan covers
all phases of earthquake
management right from mitigation,
preparedness, emergency response,
relief to recovery. The plan discusses
roles and responsibilities of each
stakeholder and should be used as a
guide by all the concerned line
departments to prepare their
respective department to play these
critical roles and responsibilities.
Earthquake Management Plan is also
crucial to achieve the global targets
under The Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. The
seven global targets are:
i) Substantially reduce global disaster
mortality by 2030, aiming to lower
the average per 100,000 global
mortality rate in the decade 2020-
2030 compared to the period 2005-
2015
ii) Substantially reduce the number of
affected people globally by 2030,
aiming to lower the average global
figure per 100,000 in the decade
2020-2030 compared to the period
2005-2015
iii) Reduce direct disaster economic
loss in relation to global gross
domestic product (GDP) by 2030
iv) Substantially reduce disaster
damage to critical infrastructure
and disruption of basic services,
among them health and
educational facilities, including
through developing their resilience
by 2030
v) Substantially increase the number
of countries with national and local
disaster risk reduction strategies by
2020
vi) Substantially enhance international
cooperation to developing
countries through adequate and
sustainable support to complement
their national actions for
implementation of this Framework
by 2030
vii) Substantially increase the
availability of and access to multi
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