Southwest Pacific earthquake resilience workshop
Overview
This workshop will draw together lessons from recent earthquakes and tsunamis to develop a road map for improved regional resilience. An overview will be presented on recent earthquakes in the region and beyond. National representative and other delegates, from Southwest Pacific nations including Australia and New Zealand, in the areas of engineering, building control and disaster management, will be invited to contribute to the workshop. The aim is to build regional awareness and consensus on what are the perceived priorities for improving earthquake resilience in the region over the next 5 years.
This will include considerations of:
* Co-operative disaster management strategies
* Seismological studies
* Tsunami mitigation systems
* Earthquake engineering guidelines
* Joint codes and standards
* Education
* Continuing professional development
* Building control systems development.
With recent events there has never been a better time to get a clear direction for the region.
Programme
The Workshop will commence with an official welcome on the evening of Monday 11th April. The first day of workshop sessions on Tuesday 12th April will focus on presentations from representative delegates on the level of resilience of their nation and reflections on what has been learned from their experiences with recent earthquakes and tsunamis. The day will end with the development of a draft matrix of regional earthquake resilience and the opportunity to reflect on the day’s discussions over a formal dinner that evening.
On Wednesday 13th April the delegates will form three specialist working groups focussing on the development of initiatives in the areas of earthquake engineering, building control and disaster management. These initiatives will be reported back to the full workshop for consideration and interim prioritisation.
The draft workshop programme provides a timetable of the presentations and working group activities.
The workshop will end with the drafting of a joint statement for vote and signing by the official national representatives endorsing the deliberations of the workshop.