Changeset 3169 for production/onslow_2006/report/introduction.tex

Timestamp:

Jun 16, 2006, 1:40:47 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

sexton

Message:

updates to Onslow report

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 This report is being provided to the Fire and Emergency Services Authority
-(FESA)
-as part of the Collaborative Research Agreement (CRA) 
-with Geoscience Australia.
+(FESA) as part of the Collaborative Research Agreement (CRA) 
+with Geoscience Australia (GA).
 FESA recognises the potential vulnerability of the Western Australia
 coastline to tsunamigenic earthquakes originating from 
-the Sunda Arc subduction zone. There is
-historic evidence of such events, \cite{CB:ausgeo}, 
+the Sunda Arc subduction zone that caused the December 2004 event which
+fortunately had no impact on Australia. 
+However, there is historic evidence of tsunami events affecting the 
+Western Australia coastline, \cite{CB:ausgeo}, 
 and FESA has sought to assess
 the relative risk of its urban and regional communities to the tsunami
-threat and develop detailed response plans.
+threat and develop detailed response plans for a range of plausible events.
 
-This report is the first in a series of studies to assess the relative
-risk to the tsunami threat. The methods, assumptions and results of a
+This report is the first in a series of studies assessing the relative
+risk to the tsunami threat. Subsequent reports will not only
+describe studies for other localities, they will also revisit these
+scenarios as more refined hazard models become available. In this report,
+the methods, assumptions and impacts of a
 single tsunami source scenario is described for the Onslow area in the 
 North West shelf region. 
 Onslow has a population of around 800
-is part of the Shire of Ashburton in the Pilbara region of Western Autralia
-\footnote{http://www.pdc.wa.gov.au/region/political.htm}. Onslow supports
+is part of the Shire of Ashburton in the Pilbara region of 
+Western Autralia\footnote{http://www.pdc.wa.gov.au/region/political.htm}. 
+Onslow supports
 a variety of industries, including oil, gas, mining, cattle, 
 fishing and tourism.
 
 The report will outline the methods of modelling the tsunami from its 
-source to its impact ashore. Section \ref{sec:tsunamiscenario} provides
+source to its impact ashore and present the predicted consequences. 
+Section \ref{sec:tsunamiscenario} provides
 the background to the scenario used for this study. Whilst 
 the return period of this scenario is unknown, it
-can be be classed as a plausible event. 
+can be be classed as a plausible event, see Section \ref{sec:tsunamiscenario}. 
 Future studies
-will present a series of scenarios for a range of periods to 
+will present a series of scenarios for a range of return periods to 
 assist FESA in developing appropriate plans for a range of event impacts. 
-The modelling technique to develop the 
+The details of the hazard modelling will not be described here, however,
+the modelling technique to simulate the 
 impact ashore will be discussed in Section \ref{sec:anuga} with data inputs
-discussed in Section \ref{sec:data}.
-Inundation results shown in Section \ref{sec:results} and 
-impact modelling results shown in Section \ref{sec:impact}.
+discussed in Section \ref{sec:data}. 
+The inundation results will be shown and discussed in Section \ref{sec:results} 
+with the impact modelling outputs shown in Section \ref{sec:impact}.
 The report concludes with a summary of the results detailing issues
-regarding data and further model development.
+regarding underlying data and further model development.