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Earthquake Quarterly - Spring
1997
This newsletter is a production of the Western States Seismic Policy Council
121 Second Street, 4th Floor San Francisco, California 94105
415/974-6422 fax 415/974-1747
e-mail: wsspc@wsspc.org
web address: http://www.wsspc.org
Steven Ganz, Executive Director
Andrea James, Administrative Assistant
What Is Seismic Policy?
The Western States Seismic Policy Council's (WSSPC) mission is to provide a
forum to advance earthquake hazard reduction programs throughout the Western
Region and to develop, recommend, and present seismic policies and programs
through information exchange, research, and education.
WSSPC is pursuing its mission though convening the Basin and Range Province
Seismic Hazards Summit, May 12-15, in Reno, Nevada. During the event
presentations will not only focus on the newest technology and research, but
will also consider how these development can impact policy to minimize loss of
life and property. The pursuit of seismic policy is set as a high priority for
our organization.
Many of you have asked or wondered: What is SEISMIC POLICY? First perhaps we
need to define "policy" or "government policy." (The dictionary defines it as a
principle, plan, or course of action as pursued by government.) Following the
dictionary definition using the word "principle," I would define government
policy as the philosophical basis for laws and regulations adopted by
government. Seismic policy would then be such government policy that relates to
earthquake hazards and earthquake mitigation. As examples, seismic policy
encompasses such items as funding for research at the federal level, guidelines
for evaluating and mitigating seismic hazards (such as California Division of
Mines and Geology's recent Special Publication 117 by that name), and
recommendations for changes in building codes adopted by local governments.
An example of a policy recommendation that might come out of discussions at the
Basin and Range Summit would be a motion to define as an active fault in the
Basin and Range Physiographic Province one that has moved within the last
130,000 years rather than one that has moved in the last 10,000 years, which is
how an active fault is defined in California's Alquist-Priolo Act.
The Summit's recommendations for WSSPC policy positions will be forwarded to the
WSSPC Basin and Range Province Committee, who will discuss them and forward them
to the WSSPC Board of Directors for consideration at their meeting on July 9.
Following WSSPC Bylaws, the Board of Directors will review these and forward
perhaps reworded recommendations for adoption by the full membership of WSSPC at
their annual meeting November 4-7, 1997, in Victoria, B.C.
Sections of the article were excerpted from Dr. Jonathan Price's opening remarks
given at the Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit, May 13 in Reno,
Nevada. Dr. Jonathan Price is the Director of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and
Geology.
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CALL FOR EXHIBITORS
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WSSPC Annual Conference 1997
On behalf of the Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC), we are extending
the invitation for organizations to set up an exhibit at our Annual Conference
to be held November 4-7. We are confident that this year's conference will be
our best ever and the exhibit fair will be a huge success.
In addition to displays you may also sponsor an event such as meals, the
conference banquet and the socials. Sponsorship of these events will contribute
to your organization's exposure at this conference.
Sponsorship fees include breakfast and lunch on Wednesday, November 5, for two
of your organization's representatives. Additional day rate passes for the
conference will be available at $65 per day. Hotel rooms are available at the
WSSPC conference rate of $105.00 (Canadian Currency plus tax) per night for
single occupancy. For more information call the Ocean Pointe Resort Hotel
(1-250/360-5860).
Over 100 registrants are expected to attend this conference including state
directors and geologist as well as the people on the front line of earthquake
mitigation and education. The conference will provide you with an excellent
opportunity to display your products to those directly involved in the field as
well as key decision makers.
Conference Sponsorship Opportunities
Exhibitor Display Booths
WSSPC will host a exhibitor fair from 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. on November 4, 1997
and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 7:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. on November 5, 1997.
The buffet luncheon on Wednesday November 5, will have the displays as the
primary focus. There are two booth sizes from which to choose. The basic display
area will be 6' x 6'. Included in the display area will be a 6' x 18" table, two
chairs and an area behind the table for self-supporting displays. Additionally,
a very limited number of 12' x 8' booths will be available for self-supporting
displays. (Tables can be made available for the larger display areas.)
Meal and Social Activity Sponsorships
WSSPC is offering an opportunity for organizations to sponsor conference meals
and receptions. Organizations will be included in the conference program as the
sponsor of the given activity, and conference organizers will announce the
support of the sponsoring organization at the respective meal or event. At each
of the breakfasts, lunches, socials and the conference banquet sponsors are
welcome to display a sign with the sponsor name. In addition, an area at the
each event will be made available for sponsors to display information.
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Planning Scenario
For A Major Earthquake In Western Nevada
Craig dePolo, Nevada Bureau of Mines and
Geology
The Reno-Carson City urban corridor has one of the highest seismic hazards in
Nevada and the chances for having one or two magnitude >6 earthquakes in the
next 30 years are fairly high, based on historical earthquakes and the presence
of numerous late Quaternary faults. Yet, the last 30 years have been relatively
quiet seismically, with only one magnitude 6, south of Carson Valley, in 1994.
This event fortunately did little overall damage, and subsequently, although the
event is recalled by the public, the message of earthquake hazards and
preparedness did not appear to be reinforced in a long-lasting manner. Thus, an
earthquake scenario was commissioned and funded by the Nevada Earthquake Safety
Council, the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, and the Federal Emergency
Management Agency. The goals of the scenario are to intensify the understanding
of the earthquake hazard in western Nevada, to explain potential consequences of
a major event, to encourage preparedness and mitigation measures, and to enhance
disaster-response planning. We have the opportunity to get ready for and
minimize our losses from the next local, strong earthquake.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake along the northern Carson Range fault system is used
as the scenario event. Earthquake effects presented are Modified Mercalli
earthquake intensity, surface faulting, liquefaction, and landsliding. The
resulting map of intensity from the scenario event indicates very intense and
potentially damaging shaking (intensity IX) in the Reno, Washoe Valley, and the
Carson City areas. The surrounding mountains have intensities of VII to VIII. A
zone of normal-slip surface faulting 32 km long and up to 33 m wide extends from
Washoe Valley, along the base of the Carson Range, and into southwest Reno. The
ground is offset 2 m vertically over much of this distance, with a localized
maximum of 4 m, and the rupture decreases to 0.5 m and less in Reno. High and
moderate liquefaction susceptibility areas are scattered throughout the urban
corridor, and localized damage from liquefaction would be anticipated from the
scenario event. Areas of major rockslide and landslide hazards pose threats
mostly to transportation routes, with a few communities and utilities threatened
as well.
The second part of the scenario describes some of the general consequences and
impacts to lifeline utilities from the scenario event. These include general
descriptions of the most hazardous types of buildings (e.g., unreinforced
masonry buildings); impacts on the school system and the number of children at
risk; potential impacts on medical systems, fire, police, and emergency
facilities (including decision-making facilities, such as city halls, emergency
operating centers, and emergency information dispatch centers); and
generalizations of hazardous materials incidents. The impact on the
transportation system (principally roads and airports) is described by hours or
days out of service, and specifications for airports (e.g., runway length,
wheel-bearing load capacity) are given for emergency planning involving large
transport planes. Impacts to communication systems, electric power, natural gas,
water systems, wastewater systems, and petroleum are described with input from
the local utilities. Local input helps assure accuracy, but more importantly,
helps obtain local "buy in" and "ownership" of the scenario, increasing its
ultimate usage.
The consequences described are a combination of general impacts that likely
would result from a large earthquake, and some specific, hypothetical
information for illustration. Nonstructural mitigation is emphasized throughout
the text.
To effectively and rapidly transfer the earthquake scenario to the community for
its use we took the following steps:
1) Developed a five-phase plan:
I develop earthquake scenario
II develop some scenario consequences
III conduct workshops and enhance emergency response plans
IV conduct an earthquake exercise
V review exercise and fine tune response.
2) Involved the community in planning the scenario and the adoption of the
project by the Nevada Earthquake Safety Council.
3) Held five workshops for the community at the University of Nevada, Reno. The
first introduced the project, three were working-group meetings, and the last
presented the results of the consequences.
4) Organized community-based working groups to advise the project.
5) Developed specific tables and figures so people can relate to individual
facilities (e.g., schools, hospitals, etc.) within the scenario area.
6) Released the scenario with a local media conference and distributed copies
throughout the community (200 so far).
The scenario earthquake strongly shakes western Nevada and poses many serious
geologic hazards, engineering risks, and potential impacts on important lifeline
systems. Preparation for an event of this severity would, in general, be
adequate for any earthquake that could affect the region.
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California's
Post-Earthquake Information Clearinghouse
Sarah K. Nathe, Senior Program Planner -
Earthquake Program, California OES
Quick History
For over a week following the Northridge earthquake, a small part of a Pasadena
office building served as the nerve center of an extensive reconnaissance
effort. Every morning, engineers, earth scientists, social scientists, and
public policy experts fanned out from the California OES office to examine and
analyze the earthquake's effects in the San Fernando Valley and other areas of
greater Los Angeles. After sunset, all of them returned to the crowded office on
Green Street to spend long hours talking about what they had seen and heard.
This was the first large-scale operation of the Post-Earthquake Information
Clearinghouse, a collaborative effort of many California organizations involved
in earthquakes. The Clearinghouse provided a single point of contact for easy
exchange of information among practitioners, researchers, emergency managers,
and investigators from other states and countries. The information gathered by
the individual field investigators became invaluable to all participants when it
was shared in the briefing room late in the evening. In the immediate term, it
influenced some emergency response activities and focused earth science
appraisals. Over time, the data laid down in daily strata at the Clearinghouse
were analyzed by various organizations for reconnaissance reports, for an
understanding of the implications for practice, and for recommendations about
changes to policy.
After a number of earthquakes in the 1980s, rudimentary clearinghouse efforts
were undertaken by two California state agencies-OES and the Division of Mines
and Geology (CDMG)-and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). After the 1992
Landers/Big Bear clearinghouse, those participants came to two realizations: 1)
earthquake disasters in California were attracting progressively larger numbers
of earthquake professionals to the affected area, from within the state and
without; and 2) individuals? field observations can best add to the common
information base when there's a plan for coordinating their deployment and
reporting.
Not long before the Northridge quake, representatives of California OES had
initiated discussions about a collaborative clearinghouse operation with other
public and private sector organizations active in California. Parties in this
management group were the CDMG and USGS, which are responsible for seismologic
and geologic assessments of earthquakes; the Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute (EERI), with its charter to investigate the structural and social
effects of all major earthquakes in the U.S. and abroad; and the California
Seismic Safety Commission, the main seismic policy body in the state. By the
afternoon of January 17th, 1994, all the discussants were on their way to
Pasadena to set up a shop they had only talked about in general terms.
Plans for the Next Quake
The size and unqualified success of the Northridge operation have inspired
California OES to formalize both the plan and the participating organizations.
Over the past year, OES planners have convened a number of meetings for all
pertinent and interested organizations to work out, and commit to paper, the
roles and responsibilities of each one in the Clearinghouse. Informed by the
experiences in Northridge, organizational representatives have developed a short
but coherent blueprint for activating the next post-earthquake clearinghouse.
Organizations involved in the clearinghouse planning process are listed below:
· Applied Technology Council (ATC)
· California Office of Emergency Services (OES)
· California Division of Mines and Geology (CDMG)
· California Seismic Safety Commission (CSSC)
· Caltech University
· California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREe)
· Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
· Earthquake Engineering Research Center/NISEE, U.C. Berkeley (EERC)
· Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region IX (FEMA)
· Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
· Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC)
· Technical Committee on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE)
· Berkeley Seismographic Station (UCBSS)
· United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Each of these organizations has a role in conducting field observations-of
natural phenomena, structures, or social systems-collecting data; or analyzing
and disseminating information.
The plan is to set up the clearinghouse quickly following a quake to perform the
following functions: 1) be the "check-in" and "check-out" point for all
researchers and officials who arrive at the scene; 2) collect and verify
perishable reconnaissance information; 3) convey that information to the
Planning/Intelligence function of the OES Regional Emergency Operations Center (REOC);
4) provide updated damage information to all interested parties, through daily
briefings and reports; and 5) track where investigators are in the damaged area.
Only three short years after the Northridge quake, we have a greater capability
to track people and document findings through computer databases, information
management systems, and GIS. A geographic information system will be situated at
the clearinghouse to integrate, as well as display, field observations.
Operations
An earthquake in an urban area will trigger Clearinghouse establishment when it
is damaging and has a magnitude of 6.0 or above. In a remote, less densely
populated area, an earthquake must be larger and damage a substantial number of
structures in order to prompt Clearinghouse activation. A federal disaster
declaration is not necessary to activate the clearinghouse, but there will
always be activation when there is a federal disaster declaration for earthquake
damage.
In the first 24 hours after a serious quake, the California OES region in which
the earthquake strikes will provide, or work with other governmental units to
arrange for, the clearinghouse space. Assistance in this will come from the four
management organizations mentioned earlier, or from other groups with available
personnel and resources.
The duration of clearinghouse operation is dependent on the magnitude of the
damage and extent of the response and early recovery periods. Clearinghouse
operations can be reduced when need for reconnaissance decreases. Termination
will be determined by the management group, based principally on their sense
that critical perishable information has been gathered.
Locating the clearinghouse is a fairly big challenge. It should be as close to
the affected area as possible, with relatively easy transportation to and fro.
At the same time, it must have access to the OES REOC for information sharing.
Since the REOC may not be proximate to the damage area in certain earthquakes,
the Clearinghouse will be electronically connected. The clearinghouse operation
requires phones, electricity, computers, working and display space, and meeting
room large enough to accommodate a minimum of 50 people for the all-important
evening briefings.
Logistics
The lead staff member will come from OES, or be designated from one of the other
organizations centrally involved in clearinghouse establishment. A variety of
sources will contribute staffing: OES, CSSC, FEMA, EERI, and SCEC will assign
staff to the operation; CUREe will provide student assistants; and CDMG and USGS
will position technical liaisons there. To maintain databases on damaged
structures, deployed personnel, and other areas of concern, assistance will come
from SCEC and EERC/NISEE. GIS-related activities will be done by staff from OES,
FEMA, CDMG, or USGS. Some participant organizations? (for example, Caltech or UC
Berkeley Seismographic Station) staff members will be elsewhere, but in daily
contact with the clearinghouse.
Financing
In the Northridge earthquake, the operation of the clearinghouse added few costs
beyond those the participating organizations would have borne irrespective of
clearinghouse activation. Space and most equipment were provided by OES. The
participating groups with post-earthquake reconnaissance as a prescribed task
covered the costs of their involvement by their own budgets. Groups which define
the clearinghouse activities as outside their allowable expenses have a somewhat
thornier problem. We are awaiting a determination by FEMA as to whether those
latter organizations may claim reimbursement for their activities in a
presidentially declared disaster.
Watching and Waiting
Last November we held a tabletop exercise to better specify each organization's
participation in the Clearinghouse. Two scenario earthquakes-the Rodgers Creek
in northern California and the San Jacinto in southern California-were presented
to the group, and prompted a lively discussion of operational and logistical
issues that continues to the present. We continue to have bi-monthly meetings of
the participating organizations to refine the plan, ponder some imponderables,
and get to know the people we may be working closely with some day in the
not-too-distant future.
For more information on California's Post-Earthquake Information Clearinghouse,
phone (510) 286-0858, or e-mail: Sarah_Nathe@oes.ca.gov
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WSSPC AWARDS IN
EXCELLENCE
The Western States Seismic Policy Council Awards in Excellence recognizes
achievement in different areas of earthquake mitigation, preparedness and
response. This program is both an effective method to share model programs
throughout our region, as well as to recognize the hard-working, creative and
innovative efforts within the earthquake hazard reduction community.
It is the hope of WSSPC to bring greater visibility to exemplary state, county
and local programs and policies and to facilitate the transfer of those
successful experiences to other states.
ELIGIBILITY
State, provincial, county, or city governmental agencies in WSSPC member states
are eligible for the WSSPC Awards in Excellence. Programs can be nominated by
the originating agency or by an outside agency.
CATEGORIES
Awards will be given in the following categories:
· Mitigation Efforts · Educational Outreach Programs
· Response Plans/Materials (three categories awarded)
· Use of New Technology · Outreach to Business/Government
· Research Projects · Outreach to Schools
· Innovations (i.e. Private/Public Partnership) · Outreach to the General Public
SCHEDULE
August 15, 1997 -- Deadline: Applications are due to WSSPC Office
-- WSSPC Awards Committee begins to review applications
September 15, 1997 -- Awards Committee selects awarded programs
October 1, 1997 -- Winners notified and encouraged to attend WSSPC Annual
Conference
November 6, 1997 -- Awards ceremony at WSSPC Annual Conference
January 15, 1998 -- Publish a volume of award winning programs
SELECTION CRITERIA
At each stage of the award selection process, the following questions are
employed to determine whether the program or policy is eligible for further
consideration:
· Is it a state/local/regional government sponsored program or product?
· Does it represent a new and creative approach to problem(s) or issue(s)?
· Does the program or product address significant problem(s) or issue(s) that
are local, regional or national in scope?
· Has the program been operational for at least one year (since August 30,
1996)?
· Has the program or product been effective in achieving its stated goals and
purposes?
· Could the program or product be easily transferred to other states or regions?
AWARD
The Western States Seismic Policy Council will be awarding certificates of
achievement to finalists in the program categories. If funding is available,
monetary awards will be made to the winning agencies. A description of each
awarded program will be included in a WSSPC publication for wide distribution.
To receive a nomination application, please contact the Western States Seismic
Policy Council office at (415) 974-6435 or e-mail us at wsspc@wsspc.org.
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SPOTLIGHT ON:
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE CENTER
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) actively coordinates research
on Los Angeles region earthquake hazards and focuses on applying earth sciences
to earthquake hazard reduction. Founded in 1991, SCEC is a National Science
Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center with administrative offices
located at the University of Southern California. It is co-funded by the United
States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Education and Knowledge Transfer
programs are co-funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The Center's primary objective is to develop a "Master Model" of earthquakes in
Southern California by integrating various earth science data through
probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. SCEC promotes earthquake hazard reduction
by:
· Defining, through research, when and where future damaging earthquakes will
occur in southern California
· Calculating the expected ground motions
· Communicating this information to the public
Since its inception in 1991, the Center directors and scientists have pursued
this mission through a variety of methods, which include:
· securing long term balanced support for the essential elements needed for
achieving a scientific goal, namely, infrastructure, disciplinary group
research, and dissemination of acquired knowledge;
· assembling a critical mix of multidisciplinary expertise;
· fostering disciplinary groups and rendering help to resolve controversies
within disciplinary groups;
· protecting promising areas of research at rudimentary stages of development;
· enabling orderly transfer of knowledge from basic research to its
applications;
· rendering help to produce scientific consensus documents needed by the public;
· leveraging additional funding sources; and
· providing a contact for the community of users of knowledge.
Representing several disciplines in the earth sciences, SCEC-sponsored
scientists are conducting separate but related research projects with results
that can be pieced together to provide answers to questions such as: Where are
the active faults? How often and where do we expect damaging earthquakes to
occur? What size earthquakes can we expect? and What will be the nature of the
resulting ground motions?
Scientific tasks include:
· Establishing dates of past earthquakes and rates of slip on southern
California's active faults;
· Measuring the regional strain field as an indicator of earthquake potential;
· Improving predictions of strong ground motion parameters for plausible
earthquakes, principally in the metropolitan areas;
· Exploring the fundamental physics of earthquake rupture;
· Improving the resolution of subsurface seismic wave velocities and geologic
structures;
· Investigating the nature and significance of space/time patterns in seismicity;
· Constructing algorithms for seismic hazard analyses in southern California;
and
· Developing near real-time seismology for notification, education, and
outreach.
In addition, SCEC supports a wide range of infrastructure needs for the
earthquake scientific community and others in southern California including
regularly scheduled symposia, data and instrument centers, a regional permanent
GPS network, and an Education and Knowledge Transfer Program with workshops
dedicated to the needs of selected end-user groups.
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: SCEC actively encourages collaboration among scientists,
government officials, and practitioners. Users of SCEC scientific products
(reports, databases, maps, etc.) include disaster preparedness officials,
practicing design professionals, policy makers, southern California business
communities and industries, local, state and federal government agencies, the
media, and the general public.
Knowledge transfer activities consist of end user forums and workshops,
structured discussions among groups of end users and center scientists, written
documentation and publication of such interactions, and coordination of the
development of end user-compatible products. Other forms of communication
include quarterly newsletters and topical reports.
Knowledge Transfer - Some Current Tasks and Projects
· Research Utilization Council and Representatives from End-User Groups
· Insurance Industry Workshops
· Vulnerability Workshops (promote information exchange with southern California
city and county officials whose concern is the effect of large urban area
earthquakes on the built environment)
· Media Workshops
· Field Trips (local tours led by experts on major active faults of southern
California)
· Quarterly Newsletter (highlighting ongoing research; lists new SCEC-sponsored
publications; announces SCEC-sponsored activities, workshops; provides an
information resource guide)
EDUCATION PROGRAM: Learning about earthquakes is essential to meeting the hazard
head-on, and being educationally, physically and mentally prepared. SCEC has
committed itself to developing an earthquake education program, the SCEC GLOBAL
SCIENCE CLASSROOM. This program is being designed to reach schools, museums,
libraries and the public via numerous workshops, special events, internships,
electronic and mechanical exhibits, and multimedia and telecommunications
programs.
· Summer internship program for undergraduates
· Introduction of CUBE (Caltech/USGS Broadcast of Earthquakes) into High
Schools.
· "SEISMIC SLEUTHS" National Leadership Institute.
· Summer Vine Program: About 1,000 elementary students learned about the natural
and built environment.
· LARSE on Line: The Los Angeles Regional Seismic Experiment captured a kind of
"CATscan" of the Los Angeles Basin, in order to learn more about the region's
numerous earthquake faults.
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Magnitude 7.0
Earthquake on Hayward Fault: A Scenario
Reported by: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute with support from FEMA,
November 1996
At the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, a
special day-long symposium was held on the multidisciplinary challenges of a
major urban earthquake, using the northern Hayward fault as an example. The
presenters covered all aspects, from the social and economical setting of the
San Francisco Bay Area, through geologic, seismologic, and engineering aspects,
to the emergency response and recovery issues that will challenge government and
industry in the months and years after the earthquake.
This publication provides a valuable tool for planners, design professionals,
emergency and risk managers, and public officials. By identifying the most
vulnerable areas and structures, it provides the information needed to develop
programs that will reduce future losses and speed recovery.
For those outside the San Francisco Bay Area, this fascinating document
demonstrates how a scientifically credible scenario can be used to create
awareness of and gain support for comprehensive programs to reduce earthquake
losses.
Copies of Scenario for a Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake on the Hayward Fault can be
purchased for $15 prepaid plus $5 shipping/handling from the EERI. Order at 499
14th St., #320, Oakland, CA 94612-1934 or fax to 510/451-5411 with your credit
card number.
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WSSPC Board of
Directors Corner
At the last Board of Directors' Meeting, reworded mission and goal statements
were adopted. As part of the Strategic Planning process, the Board has been
reviewing and analyzing the vision and purpose of our organization. A full
report will be sent to all WSSPC members. The plan will be submitted for
consideration by the full membership at the November Annual Conference.
MISSION
The mission of the Western States Seismic Policy Council is to provide a forum
to advance earthquake hazard reduction programs throughout the Western Region
and to develop, recommend and present seismic policies and programs through
information exchange, research and education.
GOALS
· Promote regional cooperation and the interaction of the members' Emergency
Management Program and Geoscience Program representatives to cultivate, develop,
and recommend seismic policies.
· Raise the overall awareness among all parties of earthquake hazards and
methods to mitigate the associated risks.
· Serve as a resource for earthquake related materials, information and
activities, in coordination with others.
· Provide advice to all policy implementing bodies on issues and research
related to earthquake hazards.
President and Chair of the Board of Directors
Lorayne Frank Director, Utah Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management
Board Members
Robert J. Bezek Director, Wyoming Emergency Management Agency
James F. Davis State Geologist, Division of Mines & Geology, CA Dept. of Cons.
Larry D. Fellows State Geologist, Arizona Geological Survey
Jim Greene Administrator, Disaster and Emergency Services Division
Jonathan G. Price State Geologist, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
John C. Steinmetz State Geologist, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
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