ORISSA STATE DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORIT 2 nd Floor, Rajiv Bhawan, Unit-V, Bhubaneswar-751001, Orissa Report on Tsunami Mock Drill - IO Wave 2011 October 12, 2011 In Coordination with Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services Ocean Valley, Hyderabad
Report on Tsunami Mock Drill (IO Wave 2011) conducted in Tsunami Prone Villages of Orissa on 12.10 2011 Orissa State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) organized mock tsunami drills in cyclone shelters of six coastal districts of Orissa on October 12, 2011. This mock exercise was a part of the drill organized simultaneously in 20 Indian Ocean countries including India. The exercise aimed at testing the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWS) and to evaluate the system s operational capacity, the efficiency of communications among the different concerned actors, and the state of preparedness of emergency services. The test also included the evacuation of coastal communities in several countries (notably, India and Malaysia). At the national level, this drill was coordinated by Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre (ITEWC) of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad is one of Regional Tsunami Advisory Service Providers (RTSPs) in the IOTWS setup. ITEWC participated in this drill, both in its capacity as National Tsunami Warning Centre (NTWC) for India as well as one of the RTSPs for the Indian Ocean region. The Drill named as Exercise IOWAVE 11 re-enacted the events of 26 December 2004, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami. This simulated wave crossed the Indian Ocean in 12 hours to strike the coast of South Africa Orissa State Disaster Management Authority took a lead role for conducting the mock tsunami drill on October 12, 2011 in six strategic tsunami vulnerable locations in six costal districts. The list of villages is as follows
Sl. No. Districts Block Name of Villages 1 Ganjam Ganjam Purunabandha 2 Puri Brahmagiri Narasinghpurpatana 3 Jagatsinghpur Kujanga Pipal 4 Kendrapada Mahakalpada Ramnagar 5 Bhadrak Basudevpur Nuagaon 6 Balasore Bhograi Krushnanagar Deputy Collector, Emergency of each district was designated as the District Nodal Officer for organising and monitoring the tsunami mock drill. NGO partners were involved at shelter level to facilitate the exercise. District level officers/block Development Officers/Tahasildars has been engaged as observers for each shelter. State level officers from OSDMA have been deputed to each village as observer. A control room was setup at OSDMA. 05 team of officers and Staff were engaged for dissemination of warning to the district & Block administration and community. The list of Officers/staff of OSDMA engaged for the drill is as follows. Sl. Districts/OSDMA Name of the Observers No. 1 Ganjam Sri P.K. Nayak, Asst. Commandant, Orissa Disaster rapid action Force 2 Puri Sri Sutanu Thakur, Project Associate 3 Jagatsinghpur Sri Sachidananda Pati, Project Associate 4 Kendrapada Sri Meghanad Behera, Project Support Associate 5 Bhadrak Sri Arabind Ray, System Expert 6 Balasore Sri K.C. Bisoi, Shelter Coordinator 7 Control Room- OSDMA Sri Raja Parija, General Manager Sri Avaya Ku Nayak, Dy. General Manager Sri B.N.Mishra, GIS Expert Sri A.K. Sahoo, Accountant Sri Susil Nishank, Computer Programmer Sri Amar Singh Nayak, Stenographer
The drill has been conducted with the active involvement of the community, task force members, Cyclone Shelter Management and Maintenance Committee (CSMMC), Village Disaster Management Committees (VDMCs), PRI representatives, NGOs partners and volunteers of the tsunami prone villages linking the concerned Block and District Emergency Operation Centers. Multipurpose cyclone shelters in those villages have been identified as the shelter place for the people during the drill. During the Mock drill on October 12 2011, ITEWC generated and issued 15 tsunami bulletins to both its National & Regional (IOTWS) contacts through GTS, email, fax, SMS as well as web between 0630 Hrs to 1830 Hrs IST. OSDMA received the 1 st Bulletin at 6.32 AM regarding the occurrence of earthquake and possibilities of tsunami threat. OSDMA immediately passed on the bulletin to the district Emergency Operation Centers by Fax and SMS. The local people at the field level were informed by SMS by OSDMA. Subsequent bulletins were issued by INCOIS and sent to community as well as local administration. The local stakeholders at the field level were informed by SMS. After receipt of warning message from OSDMA, Emergency alertness by Sirens was made at cyclone shelters at 7.15 AM. Immediately after the alertness, the local village volunteers and CSMMC task force members made a transact walk inside the villages and sensitized people for the possible tsunami by handheld megaphone. Then, people started moving to cyclone shelters with their necessary belongings. Physically challenged persons, older people and seek persons were evacuated to cyclone shelters by stretchers and wheel chairs, wherever required, with the help of Handicap International volunteers and task force team members. Search & Rescue and First Aid techniques were demonstrated by the task force members during the drill. Awareness programme on tsunami was conducted at cyclone shelters with active participation of community, School children and other stake holders. The drill was very successful in Orissa.
POST EXERCISE EVALUATION NAME OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION NAME ADDRESS : B.N. Mishra : Orissa State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) : 2 nd Floor, Rajiv Bhawan, Unit-V Bhubaneswar-751001, Orissa 1) Validate the Dissemination/Receipt of Notifications between the Tsunami Warning Centre and your agency and access to the Website Message Sent Time (IST) 06:30 Test Start 06:35 Bulletin 1 06:40 Bulletin 2 07:10 Bulletin 3 07:30 Bulletin 4 08:30 Bulletin 5 09:30 Bulletin 6 10:30 Bulletin 7 11:30 Bulletin 8 12:30 Bulletin 9 13:30 Bulletin 10 Received Time (IST) How Received -- Fax 6.25 Email 6.34 SMS 6.48 Fax 6.35 Email 6.38 SMS 6.47 Fax 6.41 Email 6.42 SMS 07.17 Fax 07.09 Email 07.09 SMS 7.44 Fax 7.29 Email 7.30 SMS 8.33 Fax 8.29 Email 8.30 SMS 9.32 Fax 9.29 Email 9.30 SMS 11.02 Fax 10.30 Email 10.31 SMS 11.38 Fax 11.29 Email 11.30 SMS 12.41 Fax 12.29 Email 12.30 SMS 13.32 Fax 13.29 Email 13.30 SMS ITEWC Website Accessible? (/N) Comments No fax message received Message received in all communication channels
14:30 Bulletin 11 15:30 Bulletin 12 16:30 Bulletin 13 17:30 Bulletin 14 18:30 Bulletin 15 -- Fax 14.29 Email 14.30 SMS -- Fax 15.29 Email 15.30 SMS -- Fax 16.29 Email 16.30 SMS -- Fax 17.30 Email 17.36 SMS -- Fax 18.30 Email 18.31 SMS No fax message received No fax message received No fax message received No fax message received Please fill the following with appropriate ratings The score rating is as follows: Rating Definition 1 Did not meet the objectives (state why not) 2 Met some of the objectives (state what part was not met) 3 Met the objectives 4 Exceeded the objectives (state how) 2) Ability to understand the bulletins, and assess the status of the threat to your coastal areas Circle/Highlight score: 1 2 3 4 Notes for (1/2/4): Remarks/suggestions The fax messages indicate the bulletin information and do not contain the details of the bulletin. However, it is mentioned that the detail bulletin is available in the website. If there would be any failure of internet connectivity in the communication channel at state/ district/block/community level the information in the bulletin cannot accessed. Though the bulletin contains only 2-5 pages, some mechanisms could be developed for sending the message directly fax.
3) Validate dissemination of the warning message to relevant agencies within your region The information was disseminated to: (provide the details below) Dissemination mode Disseminated To Time (Fax/Email/Phone State Emergency Operation center Within 10 minutes receipt of bulletins etc) Fax (Detail Bulletin of INCOIS) Officers of OSDMA Immediate SMS District Emergency Operation Centers of Balasore, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur and Ganjam districts Within 10 minutes receipt of bulletins Fax (Detail Bulletin of INCOIS) Block Development Officers/Tahsildars of the respected villages NGO partners of the respected villages Secretaries of Cyclone Shelter Management and Maintenance Committee (Community member)/ Village Community Leader Immediate Immediate Immediate Immediate SMS (user specific) SMS SMS SMS PRI representatives Immediate SMS Circle/Highlight score: 1 2 3 4 Notes for (1/2/4): Remarks/suggestions 4) Identify the modes that were employed to notify and instruct the public As part of our decision-making during this exercise we have determined to use the following means of public notification and instruction in a real event of this kind:
Method es/no Arrangements Exist (yes/no) Public radio broadcasts No es TV announcements/teletext No es Public announcement es es systems SMS (cell) es es Public call centre No No Website No No Telephone es es Sirens es es Door to door announcements es es Other (specify) No 5) Assess the elapsed time until the public were notified. The following times applied to us: Activity Making a decision on public warning (From time of receipt of warning) Formulation/compilation of public Notification (From time of decision) Activation of public notification systems (From time of notification formulated) Total Time Elapsed Time (e.g. 1hr 15mins) 5 minutes 5 minutes 10 minutes 20 minutes 6) The exercise contributed to the improvement or the development of planning related to public warnings and other response activities required for an event of this nature. Circle/Highlight score: 1 2 3 4 Notes (for 1/2/4): Remarks/suggestions: In Orissa, the mock drill for cyclone & flood is a regular activity of OSDMA conducted every year at the cyclone shelter level. Due to active cooperation of INCOIS, the mock drill exclusively for tsunami has conducted for first time in Orissa. In this drill, OSDMA activated and tested its communication channels starting from State to community level with involvement of different stakeholders.
Glimpses of the Mock Drill conducted in Orissa on October 12, 2011 Control Room at OSDMA for Tsunami Mock Drill Warning message Alert to the community by OSDMA through SMS Warning Alert at Cyclone Shelter by blowing the Siren Warning Dissemination by hand held megaphone at Krushnanagar, Balasore Warning Dissimination by hand held megaphone at Naugaon, Bhadrak Evacuation of old lady by the task team member at Ramnagar village, Kendrapada
Evacuation of disable persons to MCS at Purunabandha, Ganjam Disable child being evacuated through cyclone shelter ramp by wheel chair Seek People being evacuated by stretcher at Purunabandha Village, Ganjam People being evacuated to cyclone shelters at Nuagaon, Bhadrak Registration of evacuees in the cyclone shelter at Nuagaon, Bhadrak Demonstration on First aid technique at Nuagaon MCS, Bhadrak
Demonstration on search and rescue technique at Pipal MCS, Jagatsinghpur Demonstration on water search and rescue technique at Nuagaon, Bhadrak Awareness campaign on tsunami at Krushnanagar MCS, Balasore Awareness campaign on tsunami at Purunabandha Village MCS, Ganjam Awareness campaign on tsunami to the school children at Pipal MCS, Jagatsinghpur Information sharing to the electronic media on Mock tsunami drill at cyclone shelter
Print media coverage of the Tsunami Mock Drill on 12.10.2011
The New Indian Express, 13.10.2011 The Telegraph, 13.10.2011
The Ananya, 13.10.2011
The Sarvasadharana, 13.10.2011