tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58891833341058278632008-10-24T10:27:52.272-07:00Supporting HAZUS Users across the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Southern Region ...HAZUS.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273624597906036946davies@hazus.orgBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889183334105827863.post-66276638573892510562008-10-24T10:27:00.001-07:002008-10-24T10:27:52.295-07:00<p> The <a href="http://www.cisn.org/">California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN)</a> has recently released <b>CISN Display</b> V1.0 as a tool for integrating earthquake information in emergency response. <b>CISN Display</b> 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. <b>CISN Display</b> 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. </p> <b>CISN Display</b> 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. <a href="http://www.cisn.org/services.html"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE INFO</span></span></a>HAZUS.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273624597906036946davies@hazus.org0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889183334105827863.post-35846489695867640582008-10-23T08:45:00.000-07:002008-10-23T10:02:03.843-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hazus.org/SoCalHUG/uploaded_images/FireEngineering_cover-700916.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 134px;" src="http://www.hazus.org/SoCalHUG/uploaded_images/FireEngineering_cover-700913.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><strong></strong></span>Larry Collins from the LA County Fire Department and a member of the SoCalHUG has a great article in the September 2008 issue of <a href="http://www.fireengineering.com/index.html">Fire Engineering</a> on the development of the Golden Guardian 2008 ShakeOut Scenario (.pdf), <a href="http://www.hazus.org/HAZUSorg_DOCUMENTS/Collins_Golden_Guardian.pdf"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DOWNLOAD</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.shakeout.org/">The Great Southern California Shakeout Web Site</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ohs.ca.gov/hseep/golden_guardian/default.html">CA OES Golden Guardian Web Site</a>HAZUS.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273624597906036946davies@hazus.org0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889183334105827863.post-76624490029815041752008-09-30T10:48:00.001-07:002008-09-30T10:48:51.244-07:00CA 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, <a href="http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/10650/">click here... </a>HAZUS.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273624597906036946davies@hazus.org0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889183334105827863.post-75004149173833911382008-09-17T21:16:00.000-07:002008-09-17T21:19:31.946-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hazus.org/SoCalHUG/uploaded_images/shake_out-770119.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.hazus.org/SoCalHUG/uploaded_images/shake_out-770108.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />At 10 AM on November 13, 2008 millions of Southern Californians will participate in <a href="http://www.shakeout.org/">The Great Southern California ShakeOut</a> ... the largest earthquake prepardness exercise in U.S. history.<br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.shakeout.org/">The Great Southern California ShakeOut</a> web site for a schedule of events and to see how you can participate, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/The%20Great%20Souther%20California%20ShakeOut">click here...</a><br /><br />The nation’s largest state sponsored emergency exercise will take place November 13-18. <a href="http://www.ohs.ca.gov/hseep/golden_guardian/">Golden Guardian 2008</a>. This exercise will test California’s capability to respond and recover during a major catastrophic earthquake, to go to the CA OES Golden Guardian 2008 web site, <a href="http://www.ohs.ca.gov/hseep/golden_guardian/">click here...</a>HAZUS.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273624597906036946davies@hazus.org0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889183334105827863.post-65083244043549682812008-09-06T10:25:00.000-07:002008-09-06T12:51:39.319-07:00<div>We had a great meeting last week at Cal Poly Pomona. The presentations were fantastic, informative and timely. Our next meeting will be in February 2009. I hope to have it in Orange County. I want to move the meetings around the region in fairness to all of our users.</div> <div><br />One of the items I announced was the creation of a SoCalHUG group forum. It is a place where we can post questions and answers regarding <span>HAZUS</span>, we can post tips and tricks, we can ask surveys about issues important to our user group and we can post documents that we produce. For example, I have posted the answers to the survey I asked awhile back regarding who is using HAZUS in Southern California, level of use and who needs training.<br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div>I also have posted directions on how to add a shake map to HAZUS. Our user Sharon Wong wrote the original, but Kevin Mickey has given us an update.<br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div>I will also post the presentations from our meetings so if you missed our meeting last week, you can still view them from your desktop. I think this will be a useful tool, especially when we have our next major earthquake and your agency has asked you to run HAZUS but you have forgotten how to do something. This can also be useful for HAZUS runs for Golden Guardian and your agency's Hazard Mitigation plan.<br /><br />We can help each other out using this forum, I encourage you to sign up to the SoCalHUG forum. To subscribe to the SoCalHUG forum , <a href="mailto:SoCalHUG-subscribe@yahoogroups.com">click here...</a><br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div>I also announced items from the National Conference held in San Diego early August. FEMA says presentations from the August National Conference will be posted on the FEMA HAZUS site in mid-September.<br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>There is a new service pack for HAZUS on FEMA's website that fixes problems with the Flood module from locking up. Also there is a new version of Comprehensive Data Management System (CDMS). CDMS provides users with the capability to update and manage statewide and HAZUS datasets, which are used to support analysis in the HAZUS-MH. Once data are imported in the statewide datasets, the CDMS will allow users to query, sort, export and print information. Please discard the previous version if you downloaded it as it was a beta version. Both the service patch and the CDMS can be downloaded from the <a href="http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/hazus/index.shtm">FEMA web site</a>.<br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div>The third major announcement was there are two HAZUS certification programs being offered at <a href="http://training.fema.gov/">EMI</a>. You can check these certification programs as well as other Emergency Management classes at the EMI web site, <a href="http://training.fema.gov/">click here.</a><br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div>The next version of HAZUS is scheduled to be released in late winter (late February or early March). This version will also use ArcGIS 9.3. I'll make sure to inform you when it is released.</div> <div> </div><div>Again, I encourage each of you to subscribe to our forum so we can share more information to assist each other out. As Dr. Lucy Jones has been telling us this last two years "we are all in this together".<br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div><a href="mailto:mappergal@sbcglobal.net">Liz Wojdak</a></div> <div>SoCalHUG Leader</div>HAZUS.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273624597906036946davies@hazus.org0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889183334105827863.post-82776612069731442092008-09-05T12:50:00.000-07:002008-09-06T11:01:39.350-07:00The SoCalHUG has joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0">Web 2.0 era</a>. The SoCalHUG home page is now in a blog format. This will allow the SoCalHUG to quickly update content and more important it will allow the SoCalHUG community the ability to directly participate in content and comments.<br /><br />Moderated SoCalHUG user posting and comment capabilities has been activated.<br /><br />If you have any comments or suggestions or want to be granted posting privileges on this blog send us an email ... click on the "<a href="www.hazus.org/SoCalHUG/CONTACTS.htm">SoCalHUG Contacts</a>" hot-link in the menu on the far right or <a href="mailto:davies@hazus.org">click here ...</a><a href="mailto:davies@hazus.org"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></a>HAZUS.orghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273624597906036946davies@hazus.org0