Supporting Community Resilience in Solomon Islands

Focus on the ACP-EU NDRR supported activities Improve early warning systems for geological risks. SI national data centre Malaita Makira To Motu Rennel SEISCOMP COLLECTION SEISCOMP PROCESSING SIG CONNECT Improve relationships within 3 key SIG agencies Seismology, Meteorology, National Disaster & ICTSU Savo Isabel REMOTE STATIONS SIG CONNECT SEISCOMP REVIEW ICTSU GEOLOGY and NDMO SOLOMON ISLANDS NATIONAL SEISMIC NETWORK neighbourly.co.nz OCTOB GNS Scienc monitoring Pictured at Makira Isla Jack Gwall seismolog Possy (SIG and Sally F SI National Observatory for Earthquakes & Volcanoes Solomon Islands gets quake-wise ROBERT STEVEN The Solomon Islands is getting its first geohazard monitoring network. herald a new era in vigilance to earthquakes, tsunamis, and vol- canic eruptions in the Solomon Islands, and reduce reliance on overseas agencies for hazard monitoring." he said. A monitoring centre will the past 30 years, because of also be set up in the islands" natural hazards. capital, Honiara. The work is part of a wider Staff from GNS Science's World Bank-funded project to Wairakel office will train local increase the capacity of the Sol- staff to operate and maintain omon the gear, and will and mon Islands to both contribute local officials to do Work with ral heIslands to man natu- The network will provide real-time information on "It will also enable the Solo- and climate change. inter risks. earthquakes, volcanoes tsunamis. to and receive seismic data agency operating procedures. Located east of Papua New Staff from GNS Science's from other countries in the Guidance will also be pro- Guinea, the Solomon Islands is vided to enable the Solomon made up of six major islands Wairakei office, in Taupo, are Southwest Pacific." the equipment. The project is funded by the Islands to build and operate its and several hundred smaller stations once this phase of the In recent years, GNS Science deployment is complete. has assisted Vanuatu, Samoa Miller said the country has and Tonga in building their severe economic capacity to monitor and miti- impacts and losses of life over gate geological hazards. et leader Craig Miller World Bank and will be done in own earthquake monitoring islands. Permanent seismic monitor- ing equipment will be installed said the technology will enable November. Solomon Islanders to take their safety into their own hands. The development of a in six of the islands' nine suffered national seismic network will provinces, L R PI No Bis cap GFDRR Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program An initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group, funded by the European Union and managed by GFDRR

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