NATIONAL REPORT
NATIONAL REPORT FORMAT submitted by Russian Federation
BASIC INFORMATION
1. ICG/ITSU National Contact:
Name: Igor P. Kuzminykh
Organization:The Central Design Office for Hhydrometeorological Instrument Production.
Postal Address:6 ,.Korolev street, Obninsk ,Kaluga region, 249039 Russian Federation
E-mail Address: ckb@meteo.ru
Telephone Number: (+7 084 39) 6 23 03
Fax Number: (+7 084 39) 6 44 53
Cellular phone: + 7 910 912 20 17
2. Primary Warning Recipient.
2.1. Name: Anatoly I. Grabovsky and
Tatiana N. Ivelskaya
Responsible Organization: The Sakhalin Interregional Territorial Management for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring .
,. E-mail Address: adm@shug.shln.mecom.ru
twc@sakhalin.ru
Emergency Telephone Number: (+7 424 2) 72 28 20
Emergency Fax Number: (+7 424 2) 42 01 46
Emergency Cellular phone:
2.2. Name: Mikhail I. Ishonin and
Victor A. Feofanov
Responsible Organization:The Kamchatsky Iinterregional Territorial Management for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring .
Postal Address:12, Molchanova street, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683602, Russian Federation
E-mail Address: adm@ptug.hbrw.mecom.ru
Emergency Telephone Number: (+7 415 22) 5 84 44
Emergency Fax Number: (+7 415 22) 5 84 44
Emergency Cellular phone:
2.3. Name: Boris V. Kubay
Responsible Organization: Primorskoe Interregional Territorial Management for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring
Postal Address: 3, Mordovtsev street. ,. Vladivostok, 690600, Russian Federation.
Emergency Telephone Number: (+7 423 2) 22 17 50, 22 20 01
Emergency Fax Number: (+7 423 2) 22 17 50, 22 77 54
Emergency Cellular phone:
3. Tsunami Advisor (s).
Name: Yury S. Tsaturov and
Valery A. Martichenko
Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring .
Postal Address: 12,Novovagankovsky street, Moscow, 123242, Russian Federation.
seadep@mcc.mecom.ru
Emergency Telephone Number: (+7 095) 252 24 29, (+7 095) 252 45 11
Emergency Fax Number: (+7 095) 255 20 90
Emergency Cellular phone:
4. Local Tsunami Procedures.
In cases, when the expected tsunami intended as local, tsunamigenic events are being found out and are identified by seismic stations (SS) of Geophysical service of Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS). Same SS announce tsunami alarm. Criteria for the alarm announcement Magnitude and coordinates of tsunamigenic earthquake are.
The disturbing situation is cancelled as follows. If the tsunami has been registered, then the disturbing situation will be cancelled, if wave height is less than 0,5 meters during not less than 2-3 hours.
If the alarm has been announced, but tsunami attributes on the data from coastal hydrometeorological stations (GMS) were absent, the disturbing situation will be cancelled across (0,5-1,0) hours after the latest settlement time of the wave approach to places of coast. The cancellation of disturbing situation is made by the tsunami centres / stations of ROSHYDROMET in Youzhno-Sakhalinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vladivostok.
5. Distant Tsunami Procedures.
The alarm at tsunamigenic events in distant zone is announced by the tsunami centres / stations of ROSHYDROMET in Youzhno-Sakhalinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vladivostok.
After reception the information about parameters of the removed earthquake, from SS of a GS RAS and foreign SS centres and the stations carry out the following actions:
· Estimate danger of tsunami for the Russian coast by magnitude-geographical criterion
· Calculate the times of tsunami wave approach to coastal places
· Trauster the wessages on GMS about strengthening of supervision about ocean level
· Realize the situation alalysis, including data from the foreign centres
· Make a decision on tsunami threat , form and transfer in channels of communication signals and messages according to the rules and circuits of notification
Now the danger of tsunami for the Russian coast is estimated by the following criteria:
· On the initial stage - by magnitude-geographical criterion
In process of tsunami development - on the data about registered quantity of ocean
level
During intersession period the analysis of situation each time has been carried out for the warnings from PTWS, including data from foreign tide stations. In all cases danger for the Russian coast were absent.
6. National Sea Level Network.
The coastal hydrometeorological stations (GMS), located in potentially tsunami dangerous places, carry out visual supervision over tsunami and their consequences.
In PTWC take part GMS in sities Nikolskoe (Bering island),Severo-Kurilsk (Paramushir island),. Yuzhno-Kurilsk (Kunashir island). There are some tidal instruments which now are useless and do not function in these places.
In places. Ust-Kamchatsk, Severo-Kurilsk, Malokurilskoe the registrars of a tsunami are established on the basis of data gathering platform HANDAR, given by IOC UNESCO, but on objective reasons they nor participate in activity PTWC now.
7. Information on Tsunami occurrences.
The tsunami cases were not registered during the intersession period at the Russian coast.
Supervision, forecasting and the warning of tsunami threat on Far East of Russia now is carried out by the centres of the tsunami warning system (TWS) of ROSHYDROMET located in Youzhno-Sakhalinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vladivostok, in close interaction with territorial structures of Ministry for Emergency Siuations of Russia and Ministry for Communications and Information of Russia, seismic stations of GS RAS and hydrometeorological stations. The TWS centres operatively cooperate with the TWS centres of foreign countries within the framework of participation of Russia in the International Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS) working under aegis of UNESCO. A subsystem as a whole and the TWS centres work on the basis of the authorized rules and instructions of federal and local levels.
The divisions involved in TWS provide continuous round-the-clock work, including supervision over seismic conditions and sea level, analysis of situation, acceptance of the decision about the announcement and cancellation of warnings about tsunami threat , preparation and transfer of the appropriate signals and messages according to the circuits of the notification.
At local tsunamigenic events the tsunami alarm is announced SS of GS RAS by magnitude-geographical criterion. The disturbing situation is cancelled by the TWS centres of ROSHYDROMET.
At removed tsunamigenic events the tsunami alarm is announced by the TWS centres of ROSHYDROMET on the basis of the information from both Russian and foreign SS, and data about ocean level also . The same tsunami centres carry out cancellation of disturbing situation.
During the intersession period at the Russian coast the tsunami cases were notregisterend.
During the intersession period the innovation projects were carried out with the purpose of modernization Russian TWS, including scientific.
The basic directions of TWS modernization:
· Use in TWS data from local radiotelemetering SS networks and digital SS on Kamchatka and Sakhalin
·Equipment of tide supervision network by the new telemetering tsunami logger with transfer of data to the TWS centers.
·Introduction of modern hardware-software complexes and modern information technologies at the centres TWS.
NARRATIVE
Concerning last national report, i.e. since 2001, the following basic projects and works were carried out:
The technical project of equipment TWS of Russia by modern means, technologies and methods is developed
The International conference dedicated a tsunami (“ Local tsunami warning and mitigation ”) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was carried out during September 10-15, 2002. More than 70 representatives from 12 countries participated in a conference.
The scientific bases were developed and the experimental works on hydroacoustic location of area of preparation of large earthquakes at ocean were carried out. It has been shown, that use on shelf of the specialized hydroacoustic antennae focused on registration of ocean botton seismic activity, can give the new decision of a problem of the warning about local tsunami and raise officiency of tsunami warning service essentially .
The new remote telemetering logger (TRL) of tsunami in a coastal zone has been developed. The experimental sample of TRL has been manufactured, which has passed tests on Kamchatka.
There is planned the equipment of tide supervision network by TRL.
A series of works on clarification of spatial-temporal intercorrelation in tsunami and large earthquake distribution has been executed . 6-year's periodicity of tsunami occurrence at Pacitic ocean for the period 1950-2000 was found out for the first time.
The networks of automatic radiotelemetering SS on Kamchatka have been founded. Their attraction to TWS will allow to raise reliability of tsunamigenic earthquakes definition essentially.
The scientific - methodical bases and base algorithmic maintenance for forecasting dynamic characteristics and estimation of tsunami danger degree for coastal places have been developed.
The annual field researches of traces of adjournment paleotsunami and historical tsunami on Kamchatka and Kuril islands have been carried out. The obtained materials expand area of temporae scope of events for 10000 years and increase the catalogue of tsunami on Pacific coast of Russia considerably.
Date: 02 july 2003
Name: I.P. Kuzminykh