Disclaimer
This report was compiled by an ADRC visiting researcher (VR) from ADRC
member countries.
The views expressed in the report do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe ADRC. The boundaries and names shown and the designations usedon the maps in the report also do not imply official endorsement or
acceptance by the ADRC.

Presented by : TAHIR MEHMOOD(Assistant Meteorologist)
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD)

Beautiful and Historical Places

Badshahi Mosque

K2

Minar-e-Pakistan

T il Museum
TaxilaM(Buddist(B ddi t Legacy)L)P ki
Pakistan’s’ LocationLi andd Main
M i Cities
Ci i¾Country Name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan¾Chief Executive : Prime Minister (Nawaz Sharif)¾Constitutional Head: President (Mamoon Hussain)¾Total Area: 803,940 Sq km¾No. of Provinces: 4 (Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Punjab and Sindh)¾Population: More than 185 million (World Bank up to 2015)¾ National language: Urdu

Topographical Map of Pakistan
K2KPK.

Salt Range

PUNJAB
PlainsPleatuBALOCHISTANSINDHPlains

Five Majorj Geographicg p Areas:¾Northern Highlands:(Himalayas, Karakorum, Hindukush)¾Indus River Plains¾ Balochistan Pleatu¾S lt Range¾SaltR¾Deserts

Destructive Earthquakes
Earthquake

Magnitude

Intensity

DeadQuetta 1935
Makran Coast1945
Pattan 1974
Kashmir 2005
Ziarat 2008
Awaran 2013

7.5
8.3

X
X

35000
4000

6.0
7.6
6.5
73
7.3

VIII
VIII
VI
VII

5300
73,380,397
386

Kashmir Earthquake 2005

¾Magnitude: 7.6 Mw¾Areas affected: Pak,, Ind,, Afgg
¾Dead: More than 73,338 people¾Affected: 5 million people¾Depth: 15 km¾Intensity:y VIII¾Injured: 1,28,309 people¾Estimated Damaged Coast: US$ 5Billion

Tsunami-1945 (Makran Coast Earthquake)
21 Nov
21: 56 UTCPasni

8.3

KarachiWave Height: 40 ft
Clti
Casualties:
4000

D
Destructivei Fl
Floods
dYear
1950
1956
1976
1978
1992
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

Lives Lost
2910
160
425
393
1008
1645
571
333
367
228

Villages
g Affected
10000
11609
9150
9199
13208
38347
14119
8297
4111

Fl d 2010
Flood

Affected areas during Flood 2010

Damages/Losses in KPK & Balochistan during
Flood 2010
KPK

Balochistan

Damages/Losses in Sind & Punjab during Flood2010
SindhPunjab

Graphical Distribution of Rainfall in July 2015
Flood

Spatial Distribution of Rainfall in July 2015 FloodDestructive Tropical Cyclones¾ Karachi Cyclone (1965) : Caused 10, 000 casualties .
¾ Pak – Indo (1993) Cyclone:
C clone 609 people killed anddisplaced about 200,000 people from the area.
¾ Pakistan Cyclone (1999): Killed about 6400 people.
¾ Yemyin Cyclone (2007): 730 people killed and affected

the lives of 2 million people in Pakistan.

Land slide (Attabad) 2010 in Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit Baltistan
Region¾Killed: 20 people¾Displaced: 6000 people due to Lake Flooding¾Blocked Hunza River: For 5 Months¾Inundated: 12 km of Karakoram Highway washed away as a result further 25,000 people
displacedExtreme Drought of 1998-2002¾It is considered worst in 50 years in Pakistan¾In Balochistan: 1.2 million people affected and 2 million animals killed in26 districts.
¾In Sindh: 127 people died.
died Due to severe water shortages and dehydration,dehydration
nearly 60% of the population of Sindh migrated to irrigated land.

National Disaster Management Commission(NDMC)¾ Creation:
Under National Disaster Management Ordinance2006, National Disaster Management Commission (NDMC)
was formed
fd whichhi h works
k underd PrimePi
Mi iMinister.

¾ Vision:“To achieve sustainable social, economic andenvironmental development in Pakistan through reducing
risks and vulnerabilities, particularly those of the poor andmarginalized groups, and by effectively responding to andrecovering
i fromf
allll types off disasterdievents””

National Disaster Management Commission((NDMC))¾ Members:
Prime Minister
Minister, Opposition Leader,Leader Provincial
Chief Ministers and Civil Society Representatives¾ Functions:
1) Lays Down Policies at National Level
2) Approves National Disaster Management
Framework and Plan
3) Ensure Integrated National Response

National Disaster Management Authority(NDMA)¾ Executive Arm of NDMC

¾ Secretariat to NDMC
¾ Manages Complete Spectrum of DRM at NationalLevel¾ Map
p all Hazards in the Countryy¾ Organize Training and Awareness Raising Activities¾ Act as GOP’s
GOP s Focal Point for Dealing with National andInternational Community.

Disaster Preventation Strategies¾ Institutional and Legal Arrangements for DisasterRecovery Management¾ Hazard and Vulnerabilityy Assessment.
¾ Training, Education and Awareness.
¾ Disaster Risk Management Planning.
¾ Community and Local Level Programming.
Multi Hazard Early Warning System.
System¾ Multi-Hazard¾ Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development.
¾ Emergency
EResponse
RSystemS t¾ Capacity Development for Post Disaster Recovery

DRR Objectives¾ Creating an Integrated National Capacity¾ CreatingC ti Multi-Hazard
M lti Hd EarlyE l WarningW i Capacity
Cit¾ Strengthening an Integrated Disaster Preparedness andResponsepCapacitypy¾ Promoting Development Planning¾ Strengthening the Structural and Non-Structural Resilienceoff keyk Infrastructure
I fandd Life
Lif Lines
Lii PakistaninP ki¾ Strengthening Capacity at National and Provincial Levels toFacilitate and provide Support to the Implementation of DRR
Policies, Plans and Programs across Sectors and in High-Risk
Areas.
¾ Strengthening
Stth i Local
L l Level
L l Risk
Ri k Reduction
R d ti Capacity
Cit Focusing
Fiupon Communities¾ Ensuringg DRR is Systematicallyyy Integratedginto Recoveryy andReconstruction Programming

Government Institutions currently working onphases on DM in Pakistan
various p

The Legal and Institutional System of DM inPakistan

Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Rolein DRM
It Scientific and a Service Department, lead by Director
General Meteorological Services (Dr. Ghulam Rasul) andF ti
Functions
underd theth Cabinet
C bi t Secretariat,
St i t Aviation
A i ti Division.
Di i i¾ Services: Providing Services in Seismology, Meteorology,Agrometeorology, Hydrology, Astronomy and Astrophysics,,
Geomagnetism, Atmospheric Electricity and studies of theIonosphere and Cosmic Rays.
Fi¾ Functions:
Providing information on Meteorological andGeophysical matters with the objective of Disaster
Mitigation
gdue to Weather and Geophysicalp yPhenomena,,
Agriculture Development based on Climatic Potential of theCountry, Prediction and Modification of Weather Forecasts.

Organization of Pakistan Meteorologicalp(PMD)()
Department
Divisions¾National Centre for Drought Monitoring, Islamabad¾Research and Development Division, Islamabad¾Flood Forecasting Division, Lahore

N til Seismic
S i i Monitoring
M it i andd Tsunami
Ti Warning
W i¾NationalCentre, Karachi

Organization of Pakistan Meteorological Department(PMD)
Field Setup of the Departments¾ Director ,Regional Meteorological Centre, Karachi¾ Director ,RegionalRegional Meteorological Centre,
Centre Lahore¾ Director ,Regional Meteorological Centre, Peshawar.
¾ Director ,Geophysical Centre, Quetta.
¾ Director ,Computerized Data Processing Centre, Karachi¾ Director , National Agromet Centre, Islamabad.
Centre Islamabad¾ Director , National weather forecasting Centre,¾ Director ,Institute of Meteorology & Geophysics, Karachi¾ Director , Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, Karachi¾ Director ,Maintenance, Karachi¾ Director, Flood Early Warning Centre, Lai, Nullah, Islamabad¾ Chief Administration Officer, Islamabad

Existing Specialized EWS of Pakistan
Meteorological Department (PMD)¾ National Weather Forecasting Centre Islamabad(NWFC)¾ Marine Meteorology & Tropical Cyclone Early Warning

Centre Karachi (TCWC)¾ National Drought Monitoring Center Islamabad (NDMC)¾ National Seismic Monitoring and Tsunami Early Warning

Centre Karachi （NTWC）¾ Flood Forecasting Division Lahore (FFD)¾ Flood Forecasting and Warning System for Lai Nullah BasinIslamabad

Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD)
Development Projects¾ PMD-UNDP Joint Project in DRR in Pakistan¾ PMD-WFP
PMD WFP Joint Project¾ Strengthening of Early Warning System Project sponsoredby SLMP(MOE)¾ PMD Wind Energy Project
M lti Hazard
Hd Early
E l Warning
W i SystemS t¾ Multi¾ Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre¾ PMD Capacity Building

National Seismic Monitoring Network ofq
2005
Pakistan before Kashmir Earthquake

National Seismic Network of Pakistan afterq
2005
Kashmir Earthquake
Guralp(2008)PCSN(2010)
Islamabad
SkarduLahoreKatas
Tarbella
CheratGilgitPattanFortmunro
NagarParker

TurbatKhuzdar
QuettaZhob
Chit lChitral
Muzaffarabad
Balakot
Bahawalnagar
Umerkot
KarachiN tiNationall Seismic
S i i Monitoring
M it i Centre
C t (NSMC)
Islamabad

Data Analysis Screens

Data Hub for Jopen SystemJ
Jopen
Processing
Pi Servers
SJOPEN System¾ Real-time Seismic Data Acquisitionq¾ Seismic Data Record¾ Real-time Communication¾ Real-time Automatic Data Processing based on Earthquake Data Quality¾ Control as wellell as the Detection of the Earthq
Earthquake
ake parameter and Epicenter.
Epicenter

SeisComP System

Real-time processing and analyzing system SeisComP, which has beendeveloped within the GITEWS (German Indonesian Tsunami Early WarningSystem) project by GeoForschungs Zentrum (GFZ) Potsdam initiallyinitially.

Research Activities¾ Seismic Hazard Analysis and Zonation of Pakistan and Azad

Jammu & Kashmir¾ Seismotectonic
ii Analysis
l i off Ziarat
iEarthquake
hk Octoberb 29,2008.
¾ Probabilistic
P b bili i Seismic
S i i Hazard
Hd Assessment
Aoff QuettaQ¾ Seismic Hazard Analysis of Islamabad and Rawalpindi
CitiCities¾ Earthquake Risk Assessment of Quetta

S i i Zones
Seismic
Zoff Pakistan
P ki

Seismic Hazard Map of Pakistan

S i i Hazard
Seismic
Hd MapM off Pakistan
P ki t preparedd for
f PGA forf 500 years
return period

M i Gaps
Main
Gandd Challenges
Ch llin
i DRM¾ Low Level of Risk Awareness Knowledge¾ Development not “Risk Conscious” andDRR not yet

Effectively Integrated¾ Insufficient DRR Capacity at all Levels of Society¾ Weakness of Existing Early Warning Systems (EWS)¾ Risk and Vulnerability was not given Priority¾ Poor Communication Infrastructure
k off Capacities
i i forf Risk
i k Analysis
l i andd Risk
i k Reductiond i¾ Lack¾ Lacks of Application of Building Codes for Construction ofHousing and Infrastructure in Hazard Prone Areas¾ Lacks of an Affective System for Emergency Response¾ Resource Constraints and Competing Demands

My Responsibilities in Pakistan Meteorological
Department (PMD)¾ Detection and Dissemination of Earthquake Data
¾ Earthquake Catalogue Preparation¾ Participate in Research Activities related to Seismology