Panama Republic of Panama Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil

Geographical Location

Geographical Location Highest Baru Volcano (3.475 meters). Population 2, 839,177 persons, Official Language Spanish Territory 75.520 km² Weather rainy tropical Temperatures 29 to 19°C Rainy seasons since April until December. Caribbean Coast, annual average precipitation of 2.970 mm. Pacific Coast of 1.650 mm

Distribution of Earthquakes in Panama

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República de Panamá

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Geographical Distribution in accordance with amount of events in numbers by province Since : 2003

Fuente:Sistema de Inventario de Desastres (DesInventar)

Distribution of the Floods Events República de Panamá

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Distribución del Número de Inundaciones según Corregimientos 1990-2000 Las Cumbres, Belisario Porras Juan Díaz, Tocumen

Guabito Changuinola Cab. Chiriquí Grande Cab.

Penonomé David

Santiago

Fuente:Sistema de Inventario de Desastres (DesInventar)

SAN JOSE ISLAND

Chemical Weapons

SISTEMA NACIONAL DE PROTECCIÓN CIVIL

Brief of the Organization Under Ministry of Government and Justice Personnel

Workers 199 and Volunteers 2,500 aprox.

Budget

2,121,000 per year

Offices:

+27

Communications:

VHF System 4 Repeaters

Warehouses:

1 National 2 Provincials

EOC:

1 National Equip. 2 Provinces Not Equip.

Emergency Operation Center

EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER Is a tool of Coordination for Emergencies and Disasters

Emergency Operations Center (EOC) (Actual)

Emergency Operations Center (EOC) (Actual)

Panama Republic of Panama Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil

Statistics

República de Panamá

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Percentage of Events registered by type 1995-2005|

24

41 623

553

INUNDACIÓN SISMO VENDAVAL INCENDIO DESLIZAMIENTO ESTRUCTURA 26

193

241

AHOGAMIENTO EXPLOSIÓN FORESTAL

241 455

Fuente:Sistema de Inventario de Desastres (DesInventar)

República de Panamá

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Statistics of Events Registered by type 1995-2005

No. de Eventos

No.de Muertos

No. de Heridos

No. de Afectados

No. de Viv. Destruidas

No. de Viv. Afectadas

No. de Damnificados

INUNDACIÓN

623

35

14

127,690

1143

25704

6926

SISMO

26

2

242

4403

642

989

3210

VENDAVAL

241

4

9

4558

126

975

712

INCENDIO

455

28

143

3233

1457

533

7840

DESLIZAMIENTO

241

30

25

1830

30

300

122

ESTRUCTURA

193

19

92

2009

83

430

376

AHOGAMIENTO

553

594

0

0

0

0

0

EXPLOSIÓN

24

5

5

11

1

8

0

FORESTAL

41

1

1

3

0

0

16

TOTALES

2397

718

531

143,737

3482

28939

19202

EVENTO

Fuente:Sistema de Inventario de Desastres (DesInventar)

República de Panamá

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Geographical Distribution of the Amounts of Events by Province 1995-2005

Fuente:Sistema de Inventario de Desastres (DesInventar)

República de Panamá

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil Distribution of the Amount of Affected by Event 1995-2005

1830 3233

2009

4558 4403

INUNDACIÓN SISMO VENDAVAL INCENDIO DESLIZAMIENTO ESTRUCTURA

127,690

Fuente:Sistema de Inventario de Desastres (DesInventar)

Floods 17sep04

Floods in East Part of Panama September 17 2004 Description of the Phenomenon •

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An area of bad weather located at the Panama Bay, and that belongs to the ITCZ enter the past 17SEP04 to the east of the metropolitan area, with heavy rains, electric activity and winds that reached 16 knots in accordance with Airport of Tocumen. Tide for that day was at 17:42 Hrs. high of 16.3 feet’s over the sea level.

SECTORS AFECTTED BY FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES 17 SEPTEMBER 2004 Montería, Salsipuedes, Villa Cecilia, San Joaquín, Calle M, Calle N, Tapia, 18 de Abril, El Cuicuy, Bda. Roberto Velásquez, San Martín, 8 de diciembre, El Trapichito, La Paz, San Juan

Sectores No. 7, 8, 13, 15, 19, 20, 22, 3a. Etapa, Los Pinos, San Lorenzo, Génesis, La Invasión, Monte Martínez. San Martín

Las Cumbres Pacora Las Mañanitas

Arnulfo Arias, Nuevo Ocú, Cabra, Llanos de Jesús, Los Colombianos

Nueva Libia, Nuevo Progreso El Chanel, Monterrey

Pedregal

24 de Diciembre

Belisario Frías

Rufina Alfaro

Nueva Esperanza, Progreso, El Bajo 1, El Bajo 3, Prados del Este

Arnulfo Arias

Urb. Roberto Durán (Dealizamiento)

Tocumen Pacora

Belisario Porras José Domingo Espinar

Amelia Denis de Icaza Mateo Iturralde

Río Abajo Parque Lefevre Calles 12,13,14, 15 y 16 final

Calle 9, 13,15,17,W Panamá Viejo, Morelos

Juan Díaz

Villa Venus, Camino Real, Villa Inés, Sta. Inés, El Pailón, El Nance, El Laurel, Calle 1,2,3, El Porvenir, Villa Chalot, El Carmen, Chorrillito, Ciudad Radial, Manzana M, Concepción, Los Caobos, Villa Catalina, Colonias del Prado, Altos de San Pedro, El Prado, Villa Esp. El Trebol, San Fernando.

Nva. Barriada, Progreso 2, Brisas del río, Porvenir, 16 de Dic., Nva. Esperanza, Belén, Pantanal, Sector Sur, La Arboleda, Las Colinas, Sta. Elena, El Progreso, Victoriano Lorenzo, Torremolinos, Morelos, Villa Belén, San Antonio, Villa Lochin, La Candelaria, Cabuya, La Siesta, Sector Sur B, Sector Sur A, San Pancracio.

Fuente: Mapas Fondo de Inversión Social Elaborado por: Eric H. Reyes

Floods in East Part of Panama September 17 2004 Numbers of the Flood. Location Las Cumbres Juan Díaz Mañanitas Pacora 24 de Diciembre Pedregal Tocumen Victoriano Lorenzo Belisario Porras José Domingo Espinar

Deads 13 people drawn 3 people by landslides

Affected Homes

Destroyed Homes

177 615 40 123 828 81 900 3 1 1

5 0 30 14 59 0 0 0 0 0

People Affected 679 2,467 200 615 4,125 405 4,495 15 5 5

2769

281

13,016

Homeless

Comunities Affected

25 0 150 140 295 0 0 0 0 0

4 28 6 4 5 4 11 1 1 1

1,405

65

Floods in East Part of Panama September 17 2004 Search and Rescue Operations in the Area • • •

SAR were executed at first time by the people affected, 23 rescue people were reported that day only by Civil Protection. Rescue Techniques for Flood Swiftwater Rescue.

• Search and Recovery efforts focus on the sides of the river where we have find 13 bodies

Floods in East Part of Panama September 17 2004 Humanitarian Aid to affected and homeless •

The National System of Civil Protection participates in the Management of the Humanitarian Aid in coordination with the First Lady Office, who is responsible of the distribution of that aid,

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Aid: 15,086 bags of foods were delivered and 1,284 beds for the affected and homeless.

Floods in East Part of Panama September 17 2004 Prados del Este Case • The populations of one community Prados del Este was entirely moved to another site were they living without the risk of flooding, • The particularity of Prados del Este was that the hole complex was built in a high risk of flooding area it was – Under the level of the highway with a difference of about 3 meters, so it was more vulnerable to flooding, – There were no walls to protect the community. • The person related with the financial issues and construction of Prados del Este are under investigation and are under arrest.

Actions Developed After the Floods •

Reorganization of the Institution: Due to the change of government followed by the heavy floods, and the lack of coordination with the communities the organization decide that there was to make a direct link to the people prioritizing the vulnerable ones, the National Coordination of Local Organization was created as a mean to work with the several groups.

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Community Emergency Response Teams at Neighborhoods levels CERT-ECRE: Taking the idea from California CERT Teams and from El Salvador Local Brigades we develop a project to work with several neighborhoods mainly affected by the floods, the subject is to gave them proper tools to deal with floods so they are receiving training on: First Aid, Local Organizations, Evacuations, Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis. Financial aid received by Humanitarian Assistant Program of the Southern Command of United States of America.

Actions Developed After the Floods • Local Risk Management: The appropriate identification of vulnerabilities, and how to avoid be affected and diminish the potential impact that those risk in their live and its communities, for that reason with the help of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency there given also to the local communities training in how to identified vulnerabilities and as a result there is going to be maps of hazards and risk in the areas.

Actions Developed After the Floods •

Monitoring the Watershed: After the floods the surveillance over the watershed was intensify, in order to gave more information the scientific organizations, and to have a better idea of how does it behave, there are installed in the area rules that measures the level of the raise of the river,

Actions Developed After the Floods Early Warning System • We are planning to install in the upper part of the watershed radios in VHF system so they can gave early warning to the lower part of the watershed were most of the people lives, this is going to work in case of a suspected flood coming.

Actions Developed After the Floods *335: • • • •

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Number for Emergencies Free of Charge. Available to community Panama wide Is also used to give information to the people in any case related with how and what to do in flooding, earthquake. It consist in a 4 dedicated lines with two radio operator who are going to received any information and to coordinate with other institutions in cases of emergency. People can call from fixed lines or from cell phones.

Actions Developed After the Floods Early Warning Messages by Cell phones: • •

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Idea adopted from the State of Virginia, Prearranged with the Cable and Wireless and Movistar both private companies, to received in cases necessary a message to its networks; This messages contains warnings about bad weather in specific areas, and duration of the event, coordinated with The message is reaching about 130,000 people who have direct access to the cell phones networks.

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