The Program will reduce losses from natural disasters by developing with partners and clients:

• a modern robust analysis of seismic risk suitable for developing a modern building code

• effective forecasts of magnetic storms and mitigation strategies against damage to critical infrastructure

• landslide, tsunami, and volcano hazards inventories and assessments for populated centres at risk used by those clients to build effective response scenarios and disaster mitigation

The Program will enhance disaster response preparedness by developing with partners and clients:

• easy access to comprehensive digital and paper custom maps for emergencies

• database interoperability for hazard and infrastructure information

• rapid maps of radioactive contamination caused by accident or malicious intent

• definition of the nature and magnitude of explosions

• experimental prototype real-time seismic shake maps in response to earthquakes

NHER will provide:

• Earth Science Sector knowledge as paper maps and digital maps and satellite images during national emergencies (e.g. floods) and for mitigation decision support. The digital data will use CGDI and other standard protocols for Internet access.
  Contact: Ko Fung

• Maps of the intensity and nature of radiation contamination caused by accident or malicious intent, in support of response by other federal departments.
  Contact: Rob Shives

• National and local hazard assessments focused on areas with critical infrastructure and populated centres at risk. These are assessments of earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption and tsunami probability and include the impact of these on flood hazard potential.
  Contact: Didier Perret

• Best practices handbook for landslide mitigation and model of landslide behaviour for use in determining landslide hazard potential.
  Contact: Peter Bobrowsky

• Mitigation knowledge for detrimental geomagnetic effects on pipelines, electrical transmission grids and satellite communications.
  Contact: Larry Newitt

• Models of Canadian earthquake and tectonic behaviour to improve our assessment of the earthquake hazard in Canada.
  Contact: Ralph Currie

• More comprehensive and up to date information on Earthquakes, Geomagnetic Hazards, Landslides, Tsunamis and Volcanic eruptions, including a new landslide inventory for Canada. These include forecasts of geomagnetic storms, and warning systems for volcanic ash eruptions and tsunamis.