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Status Report -Long-Term Disaster Recovery Planning by Local Governments in the San Francisco Bay Area

2008-11-07T08:51:00.000-08:00

The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) as part of their Regional Long-Term Disaster Recovery Initiative recently released the "Status Report - Long-Term Disaster Recovery Planning by Local Governments in the San Francisco Bay Area." Long-term recovery refers to the repair and rebuilding process that government departments, such as planning, finance, housing, public works/building, redevelopment, and emergency management, will need to carry out to start restoring their community after an earthquake or other catastrophic disaster. In advance before any disaster, jurisdictions need to be prepared to finance recovery, expedite long-term housing recovery, support recovery of downtown businesses and the local economy, and ensure that their own facilities and services recover smoothly.

The Survey's summary report documents the areas of recovery planning in which local governments are making significant progress, have mixed levels of progress, and where they need to make improvements. The report examines the collective sum of information and analyzes the status of recovery efforts throughout the Bay Area as a whole, rather than focusing exclusively on what individual jurisdictions have done. The reasoning is that a catastrophic disaster is not localized, but affects the whole region.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
REPORT

Next big quake expected to cause billions in damage to Bay Area

2008-10-24T10:37:00.000-07:00

When the Hayward Fault — which snakes from north San Jose to San Pablo — erupts, damage throughout the Bay Area could approach $200 billion. That's more than the combined economic losses from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, 1992's Hurricane Andrew and 2005's Hurricane Katrina, according to geophysicist Mary Lou Zoback of Risk Management Solutions, at a presentation at the recent CONFERENCE ON EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS IN THE EASTERN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. This includes losses due to shaking, fire and ruptures of roads, dams and pipelines. READ MORE

CISN Display V1.0

2008-10-24T10:22:00.000-07:00

The California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN) has recently released CISN Display V1.0 as a tool for integrating earthquake information in emergency response. CISN Display is an integrated Web enabled earthquake notification system, designed for emergency management 24/7 operations centers. The application provides users with maps of real-time seismicity, and automatically provides access to Web-related earthquake products such as ShakeMaps. CISN Display also offers an open source GIS mapping tool that allows users to plot freely available layers of public highways, roads and bridges, as well as private layers of organizational-specific infrastructure and facilities information.

CISN Display is designed to provide earthquake information for emergency response. First-responders, organizations with critical lifelines and infrastructure, and emergency responders are invited to register for an account. MORE INFO

Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Legislation to Strengthen California's Emergency Response Capabilities

2008-09-30T10:45:00.000-07:00

CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a package of legislation that will strengthen the state's ability to respond to emergencies and natural disasters. These include a bill that merges the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) and Office of Homeland Security (OHS) into the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA). To read the Governor's press release, click here...

Retrofit plan to ride out quake at Cal stadium

2008-09-25T11:52:00.000-07:00

Seismic engineers say they have solved one of the world's great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake. To read more, click here...

The Hayward Fault: Predictable Peril

2008-09-16T19:20:00.000-07:00

KQED SF Bay Public Television Channel 9 will be presenting The Hayward Fault: Predictable Peril, as part of its QUEST series.

When: Tuesday / September 30, 3008 / 7:30PM

The show will feature Tom Brocher the chair of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance & USGS, Jim Lienkaemper, USGS, and Mary Lou Zobeck, RMS, Inc.

After the show is aired it will be posted on the KQED web site...

New BAHUG BLOG ...

2008-09-15T07:31:00.000-07:00

HAZUS.org has entered the Web 2.0 era. As part of these changes we have changed the home page of the BAHUG site to a BLOG format.

This will allow more efficient content updates and more important it will allow the BAHUG user community the ability to directly participate in posting content and comments.

HAZUS.org has activated moderated BAHUG user posting and comment capabilities.

If you have any comments or suggestions or want to be granted posting privileges on this blog send us an email ... click on the "BAHUG Contacts" hot-link in the menu on the far right or click here ...

Study Shows Odds High For Big California Quake

2008-09-12T13:17:00.000-07:00

The latest Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF) study concludes that the odds are high for a big California quake.

USGS Press Release
Full Report
Supplemental Information

1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance General Meeting

2008-09-12T12:39:00.000-07:00

Mark your calendars ...

1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance General Meeting

Meeting focus: Mitigation and Preparation: Status of Bay Area Infrastructure - Water, Power, Transportation

Tuesday / September 30, 2008 / 12pm
ABAG Main Auditorium
101 Eagth Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Use the Lake Merritt BART station

Call-in Number: 650-329-5199 / Meeting code: 1868

http://1868alliance.org/

Economic Losses for a 6.9M Hayward Fault Earthquake

2008-09-10T13:25:00.000-07:00

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages have been used to analyze potential business and economic losses resulting from an earthquake on the Hayward fault. This analysis did not utilize HAZUS-MH. To view this report, click here...

GIS Education Center

2008-09-01T12:49:00.000-07:00

The GIS Education Center at the City College of San Francisco is offering a series of courses this fall that might be of interest to the HAZUS User Community.

Google Earth I / Sept 6, 13 & 20
Google Earth II / Oct 4 & 11
Data Acquisition and GPS I / Nov 8, 15, 22
Information Design with Maps / Oct 15, 22, 29 & Nov 5
GIS Quick Start Advanced / Oct 20, 27 & Nov 3, 17, 24
GIS and the Urban Environment / Dec 3, 10, 17

For more info, click here...