Amerikanske militæreksperter i rollespil med den bangalske hær om, hvordan man skal gribe konsekvenserne af et længe ventet dræber-jordskæv an i megabyen Dhaka – gruopvækkende scenarie med 100.000 døde de første dage stillet op på workshop i det sydasiatiske land.
DHAKA, 7 May 2013 (IRIN): As Bangladesh armed forces retrieve bodies from the country’s worst ever industrial disaster, a garment factory collapse killing over 700 (seneste tal), contingency planning (beredskabsplan) is taking place for something worse – a long-predicted earthquake striking the mega-capital of Dhaka with more than 12 million people.
“We cannot have people just showing up with a shovel (skovl),” said Pete DeFelice, a disaster response exercise designer for the US Pacific Command (US armed forces stationed in Hawaii to promote regional security and disaster response in the Asia-Pacific).
The Pacific Command is co-hosting a planning workshop from 5-14 May with the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
Government officers, armed forces and humanitarian organizations working in Bangladesh and other parts of the Asia-Pacific who may be among the first responders post-quake (efter jordskælvet), are being presented with the following scenario:
a 7.1 Richter scale earthquake 25 km northwest of Dhaka, along the Modhupur Fault (forkastning).
A gruesome scenario
Loose sediment (jordarter) holding together much of the city caves in (skrider sammen), leads to the collapse of 100.000 buildings; ATMs (bankernes pengeautomater) are ransacked (tømt), looting (plyndringer) begins, mobile phone communications are down, and most of the city’s hospitals and 1.000 clinics are damaged or destroyed.
Some 400.000 people have gathered at national sports stadiums (with another 150.000 camped out in front of the national parliament); 100.000 are pronounced (erklæret) dead in the earliest days; railway tracks throughout the city have buckled, twisted or are torn from their rail beds.
The capital’s international airport cannot accept fixed-wing aircraft; none of the electronic navigation aids work and a nearby military airfield is closed due to cracks in the runway.
Seaports are operating at half-capacity, and “tortuous (skildpadde-langsomme), single lane detours” have reduced traffic by 95 percent.
The government declares a national state of calamity (national katastrofetilstand) during the first 72 hours.
The workshop’s goal
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