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Tsunami
Mitigation Activities on Oahu
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State
Civil Defense
Responsibility
of all disasters or major crises in the State of
Hawaii begins at the county level. As the disaster
or crisis develops, the Hawaii State Civil Defense
System provides operational infrastructure and procedures
to apply additional resources to meet the demands
of the emergency from all appropriate levels of
government.
Mitigation
Activities:
- Community
education programs conducted by the University
of Hawaii at Hilo's Outreach Program.
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Center
for the Study of Active Volcanoes
The Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV)
is located on the Big Island of Hawai'i, and operates
out of the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. CSAV is
a training and outreach program established by the
Hawaii State Legislature in 1989.
Mitigation
Activities:
- Conducts
public symposiums at the University of Hawaii
at Hilo to discuss impacts of natural hazards,
mitigation measures, and policy/warning systems.
- Plans
symposia for teachers for credit.
- Conducts
presentations to 4th and 6th grade classes and
community associations on earthquake preparedness.
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The
Pacific Tsunami Museum
The mission of the Pacific Tsunami Museum is to
promote public tsunami education for the people
of Hawaii and the Pacific Region.
Mitigation
Activities:
- Promote
public safety by providing important tsunami education
programs;
- Encourage
cultural preservation by recording local history
and the oral histories of tsunami survivors;
- Provide
statewide out-reach programs that will travel
to schools, libraries, and other museums;
- Foster
national and international tsunami research;
- Provide
the public with access to current tsunami research;
- Furnish
the scientific community with a repository to
store valuable documents related to tsunamis;
- Provide
residents with a place of honor to pay tribute
to those who lost their lives in past tsunamis.
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National
Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
A State/Federal partnership created to reduce the
impacts of tsunamis to U.S. Coastal areas of Alaska,
California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington with
the federal activities of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, and the U.S. Geological Society.
Mitigation activities:
- Providing
Hawaii with $50,000 for tsunami mitigation
- Raising
public awareness of tsunami hazards and mitigation
(video, publications, support existing outreach
programs)
- Supporting
meetings and projects of a Hawaii Tsunami Group
- Miscellaneous
(supplement equipment cost to permit airing video
broadcast, supplement cost of building revetment
wall)
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