Earthquake Country Alliance Bay Area June 4 Regional Workshop

ECA Bay Area Regional Workshop
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Please invite colleagues in your professional network to attend this workshop. Working together we will further our goals to promote and improve preparedness, mitigation and resilience. Grant funding for ECA activities is provided by the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) Earthquake and Tsunami Program.

SCHEDULE:
8:30 am – 9:00 am
9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Registration and continental breakfast
Workshop

LOCATION:
FEMA Region IX
1111 Broadway, Suite 1200, Oakland, CA 94607

Public parking is available nearby, and the BART 12th Street station is also close by.

WORKSHOP TOPICS:

  • Residential Seismic Mitigation – Making Homes More Resilient (Janiele Maffei and
    Annde Ewertsen, California Earthquake Authority)
  • Pre- and Post-Disaster Mitigation (Anne Rosinski, FEMA Region IX)
  • Whose Forecast Is It Anyway? Challenges and Opportunities of Aftershock Forecasts (Dr. Sara McBride, USGS)
  • USGS Near-Real-Time Ground Failure Product for the 2018 Anchorage Earthquake (Dr.
    Eric Thompson, USGS)
  • 2019 Neighborfest Pilot – Building a Stronger Region from the Block Up! (Daniel
    Homsey, Director, Neighborhood Empowerment Network)
  • ECA 2019 Overview and Plans (Mark Benthien, ECA Executive Director)
  • Sharing from attendees about recent activities and upcoming plans (You!)

REGISTRATION:

Registration for this workshop is now closed.