Disaster Management Plan for Goa State

This assignment focuses on developing a comprehensive disaster management plan specifically for the state of Goa. It delves into earthquake preparedness, emphasizing vulnerability assessments, early warning systems, and emergency response protocols. The plan also addresses post-disaster recovery measures, including infrastructure reconstruction, economic rehabilitation, and community support.

Running head: DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Acknowledgement
I like to thank my teachers who immense support helped me to do the assignment in a proper
way. I would like to thank all the experts, authors, journalists, researchers and reporters as I have
gathered the relevant information from their articles, books, journals, and newspapers. I also like
to thanks all my fellow students and my father and mother, as they are so supportive for me to
finish the assignment.

2
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Executive Summary
The report has shed light on the disaster control management and it relates to a case in Goa that
needs to be intervened by the government but has not surfaced in the proper way. So the
effective measures that have to be taken by the government are the ultimate issue of that report.
Goa is a situated in the coastal area of Konkan and determines the epicenter of the earthquake.
The report also makes an impact on the logistic department and also determines the issue and
proposed plan that needs to intervene to mitigate this kind of situations. There are some
recommended solutions that need to be placed in this situation to mitigate this kind of disaster
problems.

3
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................4
Issue.....................................................................................................................................4
Rationale..............................................................................................................................5
Epidemiology of injury........................................................................................................5
Overview of the incident.....................................................................................................6
Administration intervention.................................................................................................6
Environmental change.........................................................................................................7
Vulnerability of Earthquake................................................................................................8
Response plan......................................................................................................................8
Recommendation for future...............................................................................................10
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................10
References..........................................................................................................................12
Appendices........................................................................................................................14

4
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Introduction
A natural disaster is kind of phenomenon where the uncontrollable force of the earth
devastate the natural life and scenario. Earthquake is a kind of phenomenon that started its
vibrant in particular point of space and the rapid spread out of the vibration is being felt from the
affected radius of the earthquake. The mainly affected areas are the coastal area and that
intervene the potential cosmopolitan interface of the region. There are some big earthquakes
happening in Kobe, Japan, Sudan, United States, India, Alaska and California. All these have
impact over economy. The building, lifeline, infrastructure of a country and death calamity are
interconnected consequences that happened with the precede establishment of the earthquake
(ndma.gov.in 2017).
In this report, the main concern is surfaced on the disaster management operation and
elating issues. The report also makes emphasis view over controlled process of disaster situation.
The proposed infrastructure of the risk management and significant losses during the earthquake
is the controlled mannerism that government must imply over this.
Issue
The provided issue is the earthquake situation in Goa, India. Mardi Gras Carnival. There
are big events of Goa where lot of people come and celebrated the event. People living outside
the place have noticed some unnatural disturbance or earth tremors; they felt the warmth and the
proposed the fact to the authority however they did not make that issue so big and they had not
taken any action during the session. They thought that the thing is very small and they did not
even taken care of it (Asokan, Pothen & Vijayaraj, 2016). After that, in between the Mardi gras
event the major earthquake took place and many buildings were damaged and numerous lives

5
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
were being rustled due to the issue. In Goa, there are three divisions are presented like Mountain
region, low lands and the plateaus lands. All these are the geographical turbulence that put
emphasis over the state and impact of the natural division of Goa.
Rationale
Natural calamity control is not in hand of human. They are the mere spectator in that case
however they can plan the after process of that segment to mitigate the huge consequences. In
this case earthquake is the major problem and global warming and other calamities are the
responsible factor behind it (Singh, 2015).
Landslides, gas leakage, fire markets, tree falling, cyclones all these are the reason
behind earth turmoil situation and that has created impact over the earthquake (Hsiao et al.
2014).
This is the most provoking issue now as the zone of occurrence and the disaster places are
witnessed the most pathetic conditions during the earthquake. The imposed climatic change for
the globalized arena and the impurity of temperature in the lateritic area of the state depend on
the factors of the earthquake.
Epidemiology of injury
In case of this proposed earthquake state, physical and infrastructural destructiveness is
the major issue of the case. Almost 44 people have been dead and 200 got injured during that
carnival event. Lots of buildings were damaged and the modernized communication process is
being disrupted by that incident. This risk factor was the maximum as the measured magnitude
of the earthquake is 7.9 in Richter scale. The phenomenon has impacted over the economic value
of the region and has the level of risk within it. As natural disaster can occur anytime thus

6
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
precaution measure has to be taken by the government authority so that they can handle any kind
of adverse situation. The government need to be alert and has to make the proper amendment to
mitigate this kind of situation. Government inactiveness is the only responsible factor of people
loss of life and injury regarding the earthquake (Hollnagel, 2015). Government needs to create
the intervention to provide proper infrastructure, man power, risk management team and
technical innovation so that they can provide their best to recover the situation as early as
possible. Private infrastructure, Agriculture, Horticulture, Electrical installation, educational
infrastructure all these are being affected by the damaged situation of the earthquake.
Overview of the incident
The basic earthquake process depends on the geographical position of the region, nature
of seismicity, propagation of seismic waves and design criteria of the building codes and designs
are dependent on the potential assessment and expert level of understanding and incorporation.
Rapid change in the disruption of risk mitigation scenario and the resource planning for the
earthquake incident depends on the designing criteria of the city (Paganini et al. 2016). In the
risk assessment section, NEHRP has the development fund that supports the continual
development for the earthquake-affected regions (nidm.gov.in 2017). The construction for
redesigning and the proposed implementation that government has followed till date need to be
revised in a proper way. Technical innovation in building and roof may have secured the life of
the people and that innovation may mitigate the chance of mortality rate (Sylves, 2014).
Administration intervention
The government intervention in such cases needs to be remarkable as their input and
authorized implementation can only change the outcome of the disaster situation. There are three

7
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
key stages that need to be implemented in a proper way like Pre-Disaster, during disaster and
Post- Disaster. All these are the controlling measure that depicted the requirement of the disaster
management. Pre-disaster is the most important section where the human, material and economic
loss can be nullified and that emphasizes on the strategic mindset and the allocated authorization
from the government (Kremers, 2014). During the disaster situation the appropriate amount of
food, water, medical requirements, clothing, shelter and sanitation facilities are the important
criteria that the government needs to fulfill so that people can have a safe and healthy life during
the incident. So these are the methods of disaster management process that need to implement by
the government in their post-disaster period as well. Government has to take the initiation where
the rapid change in disaster management may increase the chances of mortality rate and technical
innovation can save people life as well (Hough, 2016). They have to quick enough to reach that
place and help the affected people in their best possible way.
Environmental change
Environmental change is the situational response that people like to habituate by the
situation as the evolution process changed the human attribute. Environmental changes are quite
common but the way people are surfacing the changes is the main criteria of that process.
Globalization is a big issue for that case where the internal imbalance relevancy is the reason for
the disaster. Improvement in the state of artificial processing is related to the issue that impacted
from the landslides, liquefaction, tsunamis and all. This will happen due to the unnatural
proceeding of the environment (Pasyugina et al. 2015). The general hazards situation is more
relevant if the striking structure of the implementation and the probable section of environmental
cause are vivid and that surfaced over the desired proportion of the environmental manner
(Olson, Podesta & Nigg, 2014). There is some secondary effect like climate change for last ten

8
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
years or the fire site and gas mines are the prevalent due socialization that people of this location
have to deal with.
Vulnerability of Earthquake
Vulnerability depends on the place of occurrence and the zone of the earthquake. In case
of proposed land Goa, it falls under the seismic zone IV and that indicates the probability of a
high earthquake. The devastation from the earthquake is witnessed as the residential and public
structure may diminish in a form of fragile manner. The magnitude of the earthquake has
changed demographical condition of that area. Sometimes the explosiveness and the landslide in
north Goa may create a fact of putting human life in an imperial way, that provide the essential
alteration in communication and some of the diseases that stated or inherited for long
(Kossobokov, 2013). Disaster management team has to make some effective steps so that they
can calculate the threat situation and analyze their potential that how much they can be done. In
case of an earthquake, the preparedness and the threatening solution of the earthquake magnitude
determines the severe threat from natural calamity.
Response plan
Disaster management plan needs to be implemented in a proper way so that problem
situations due to the earthquake can be controlled. In Goa, there are certain numbers of a plan
that needs to be implemented so that this situation can be controlled in a systematic way.
 Response from the authority.
 Recovery of tools and effective thinking.
 Development of infrastructure and technical aspects.
 Reconstruction of effective ideas and policies.

9
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
 Prevention for pre-disaster situation (Li & Parrot, 2013).
 Prevention procedure.
 Mitigation process.
 Preparedness of new strategies and implementations.
In case of disaster planning, the political, logistical and environmental scope is very
relevant and that emphasis on the prepared planning and commitment in which the operational
underpinning is sustained. Risk assessment is another section that provides emphasis over
mapping, analyzing the vulnerability and resource assessment. The Federal Response plan or the
Emergency Support functions are the proposed function of FEMA that identifies the structural
coordination and planning of earthquake management. Emergency support functions are
followed by those categories of functions (Naik & Choudhury, 2015).
 Transportation is the process where the logistic department is fully concerned over the
situation. For the delivery of food and medicine, the active logistic department is needed
and that determine the supply chain process as well.
 Communication is another healthy process in this disaster period where the
communication with the disaster affected people and disaster management employees is
the primary consideration.
 The process of engineering enhancement and the public service policy need to be
implemented in the proper way so that restoration of this process ultimately acted under
the adverse situation of earthquake condition.
 Mass care and planning in earthquake situation and the distribution of supply chain in
victimized areas are the major application that needs to concern by the government.

10
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Recommendation for future
The determination of place is the basic policy of defining the recommendation. Disaster
management team needs to determine those places and have to highlight those places as safe
zone. Then they have to identify the moderate places where the epicenter may be created, where
they have to strengthen the disaster management team for any undesired situations. On those
places, the standard operating procedure of quick force task establishment is required so that the
proactive decisions have been taken in a quick time. The health and medical service teams need
to be strong enough so that they can confront any of the problem situations. Joining of good
panel of doctors and health staffs are the key components of this section. At last, they have to
determine the most earthquake affected places where epicenter of the earthquake may situate.
Disaster management team has to alert people so that they must inform the natural disaster team
for any of the unnatural scenarios they have found and whatever the case may be the
investigators will come and examine the process and then exposed their decision (nidm.gov.in
2017).
Conclusion
Therefore it can be concluded that disaster control management of Goa has to implement
some situational strategies so that better disaster control can be done. Their government may
participate in more active way so that worst consequences can be mitigated. The effective and
innovative process of technological enhancement and strategic thinking and innovative processes
may surface a huge safe for the people and other belongings. Legal arrangements of a special
type of building manner, guidelines are imposed for the International Disaster Relief Laws and
that imposed over this situation. In this report, earthquake situation in Goa is been highlighted

11
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
and mentioned in an effective way so that the problem and the mannerism of disaster situation
can be established in a proper way.

12
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
References
Asokan, A., Pothen, A. J., & Vijayaraj, R. K. (2016, December). ARMatron—A wearable
gesture recognition glove: For control of robotic devices in disaster management and
human Rehabilitation. In Robotics and Automation for Humanitarian Applications
(RAHA), 2016 International Conference on (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
Hollnagel, E. (2015). Disaster management, control, and resilience. In Disaster Management:
Enabling Resilience (pp. 21-36). Springer International Publishing.
Hough, S. E. (2016). Predicting the unpredictable: the tumultuous science of earthquake
prediction. Princeton University Press.
Hsiao, T. Y., Fan, J., Chang, M. C., & Lan, H. W. (2014). Dual-Master Synchronous Operation
of Control Centers for Disaster Recovery. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 29(3),
1429-1430.
Kossobokov, V. G. (2013). Earthquake prediction: 20 years of global experiment. Natural
hazards, 69(2), 1155-1177.
Kremers, H. (2014). On the role of process models in risk and disaster information management.
In EMISA (pp. 19-20).
Li, M., & Parrot, M. (2013). Statistical analysis of an ionospheric parameter as a base for
earthquake prediction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 118(6), 3731-
3739.
Naik, N., & Choudhury, D. (2015). Deterministic seismic hazard analysis considering different
seismicity levels for the state of Goa, India. Natural Hazards, 75(1), 557-580.
ndma.gov.in (2017) Available from: http://www.ndma.gov.in/images/guidelines/earthquakes.pdf
[Accessed on 9th October, 2017]

13
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
nidm.gov.in (2017) http://nidm.gov.in/PDF/DP/GOA.PDF [Accessed on 9th October, 2017]
Olson, R. S., Podesta, B., & Nigg, J. M. (2014). The politics of earthquake prediction. Princeton
University Press.
Paganini, M., Borrelli, F., Cattani, J., Ragazzoni, L., Djalali, A., Carenzo, L., ... & Ingrassia, P.
L. (2016). Assessment of disaster preparedness among emergency departments in Italian
hospitals: a cautious warning for disaster risk reduction and management
capacity. Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 24(1),
101.
Pasyugina, I., Koval, P., De Leersnyder, J., Mesquita, B., & Kuppens, P. (2015). Distinguishing
between level and impact of rumination as predictors of depressive symptoms: An
experience sampling study. Cognition and Emotion, 29(4), 736-746.
Singh, B. P. (2015). Disaster Management Planning and its Best Practice for Libraries and
Information Centres: An Overview. Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information
Science, 9(4), 219-227.
Sylves, R. (2014). Disaster policy and politics: Emergency management and homeland security.
CQ Press.
training.fema.gov (2017) Available from:
https://training.fema.gov/emiweb/downloads/earthquakeem/session%2011/session
%2011%20response%20and%20recovery_01.pdf [Accessed on 9th October, 2017]

14
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Appendices
Appendix 1
Figure 1: Socio economic profile of Goa
Appendix 2

15
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Figure 2: Goa Administration
Appendix 3:

16
DISASTER CONTROL MANAGEMENT
Figure 3: Disaster probability in months.