Southern California HAZUS User Group

Monday, March 8, 2010

California Earthquake Preparedness Survey

The California Earthquake Preparedness Survey (CEPS) was conducted by the UCLA School of Public Health and Survey Research Center for the State of California. The objective was to provide baseline data describing how prepared California households are for earthquakes and where they get their information about preparedness and mitigation.

Telephone interviews were conducted with a representative sample of 2,081 households in California between June 26 and December 18, 2008. The sample was stratified into: the ten northern California counties at greatest risk of earthquakes, the six southern California counties at greatest risk, and the remaining 42 lower-risk counties. MORE INFO...

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Homeowners forced to buy flood insurance after FEMA redraws maps

Updates in the FEMA Flood Map Program are being met with resistance from tens of thousands of Southern California residents now being forced to buy flood insurance coverage.

The federal government has informed property owners in more than 150 cities and unincorporated areas in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties about the new requirement. Most live near rivers and creeks, below dams or in low- lying areas that are at greater risk of flooding than previously believed, according to updated maps developed by FEMA. READ MORE

To find out if your home is in a 100-year-storm flood plain and subject to the insurance mandate, go to: www.floodsmart.gov

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

HAZUS Training at Loma Linda University

HAZUS Comprehensive Data Management Worksop at Loma Linda University

November 16-18 / There are a few seats left.

The course cost is $495 to cover course instruction, materials and lab fee.

MORE INFO / REGISTRATION


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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

SoCalHUG Summer 2009 Quarterly Meeting

When: Thursday / September 24, 2009 / 1:00PM - 3:30PM

Where: City of Riverside EOC - 3085 St Lawrence St., Riverside, CA, 92504 ... for directions scroll down

On-Line: Can't attend the SoCalHUG ? ... compliments of HAZUS.org the meeting will be online, CLICK HERE ... HAZUS.org would like to thank Adobe for the donation of a demo account for Acrobat Connect Pro


AGENDA ...

1:00 Liz Wojdak, SoCalHUG Leader, "Welcome and introductions"

1:20 Philip McCormick, Riverside City Fire OEM "Moving up to Level II Data for a Large City – The time and effort involved”

1:45 Hope Seligson, MMI Inc.“Inventory Database Enhancements in FEMA’s Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino County HAZUS Pilot Studies”

2:05 Break

2:20 Margaret Vinci, Office of Earthquake Programs Caltech, "Earthquake Tools for Quick Response"

2:50 Michael McDaniel, City of El Segundo, “Free HAZUS Training at EMI – Do’s and Don’ts”

3:10 Liz Wojdak, SoCalHUG Leader "HAZUS updates and the Great California Shakeout news"

3:30 adjourn

DIRECTIONS:

From areas West - LA/Orange County/Etc

EB 60 Fwy or 10 Fwy to the 15 Fwy

SB 15 to the 91 Fwy

EB 91 Fwy to Adams

Right on Adams

Adams to Lincoln – 1st Signal past the RR tracks

Left on Lincoln

Lincoln to Saint Lawrence – 1st street on your left (CHP Office on the right – Entrance to Corp Yard on the left)

Left on Saint Lawrence – Go to the dead-end of the street

Turn right into the brick building fenced parking lot.



From areas South – San Diego/Etc

NB on the 15 Fwy

EB 91 Fwy to Adams

Right on Adams

Left on Lincoln

Lincoln to Saint Lawrence – 1st street on your left (CHP Office on the right – Entrance to Corp Yard on the left)

Left on Saint Lawrence – Go to the dead-end of the street

Turn right into the brick building fenced parking lot.



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Monday, May 18, 2009

Rock & Roll

A light earthquake occurred at 8:39:36 PM (PDT) on Sunday, May 17, 2009. The magnitude 4.7 event occurred 1 mile ESE of Lennox, CA. The hypocentral depth is 9 miles.

USGS Real-time Earthquake Map for Los Angeles region, VIEW

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

GIS Called Key to California's Future

To successfully integrate comprehensive GIS solutions across state agencies, an enterprise GIS strategy, coupled with strong executive leadership, was deemed California's best hope for dismantling state IT silos and facilitating cross-agency data sharing at the Conference on California's Future. Also vital to the mission is getting the public to better understand the role GIS can play in the state's success. READ MORE

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Monday, March 30, 2009

California Appoints Geospatial Information Officer

California now has a Geospatial Information Officer, GIO. The CA GIO is responsible for ensuring that the state receives the benefits associated with geospatial data, specifically, increased data access and sharing; reduced duplication and costs; development of technology standards; centers of expertise; public outreach and increased collaboration in state and local governments. READ MORE

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