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

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.

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

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

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

Retrofit plan to ride out quake at Cal stadium

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...

Study Shows Odds High For Big California Quake

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

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1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance General Meeting

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/