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Tsunami Preparedness & Tsunami Inundation Mapping for Alaska Coastal CommunitiesAlaska 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

SitkaTsunami 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.CoverHold On!Siren InstallationsSaint Paul

SitkaKake (2)KarlukLarsen BayTsunami Sign ProgramInstalled 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 KioskKodiak, AlaskaFirst visitors!Tsunami Interactive Kiosk

Kodiak, AlaskaInstall crew!

Outreach Materials Alaska Tsunami Inundation Mapping Roger Hansen, Elena Suleimani, Dmitry NicolskyAlaska Earthquake Information CenterGeophysical 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 completeWhittier