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Title: Development of HAZUS Earthquake Risk Assessment Capabilities for Southern California SCEC HAZUS Work


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Development of HAZUS Earthquake Risk Assessment
Capabilitiesfor Southern CaliforniaSCEC HAZUS
WorkshopNovember 13, 2001HAZUSPast, Future,
Present
  • Jim Buika
  • Regional Earthquake Specialist
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • San Francisco

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  • FEMAs National Risk Assessment System
  • Federal Investment Exceeds 17 Million
  • Earthquake, Wind, and Flood Hazards
  • All Mitigation is Local
  • Provides Local Decision Makers with Scientific
    and Engineering Details to Prioritize Mitigation
    Projects
  • HAZUS is at the Heart of FEMAs Mission

3
  • Free Multi-hazard Software to Public
  • Free Support Products
  • National and Regional Databases
  • Training Technical Support
  • User Manual Technical Manuals
  • Continued FEMA software development and
    enhancements
  • Runs on a Personal Computer
  • Requires Geographic Information System Software
    Investment by User
  • HAZUS User Group Support Network

4
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED EARTHQUAKE LOSS AT THE
COUNTY LEVEL
  • California 74
  • Los Angeles County 25

5
TOP TEN CITIES AT RISK
  • Los Angeles
  • Riverside
  • Oakland
  • San Francisco
  • San Jose
  • Orange
  • Seattle
  • San Diego
  • Portland
  • Ventura

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Population increases in the last 8 years
have tended towards areas of high risk
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  • FEMAs Commitment to HAZUS 1993 - 2005
  • 17.5 Million through 2000
  • 40.0 Million though 2005
  • Five-Year Strategic Plan, 2002 - 2006
  • Technology Development for EQ, Flood, and Wind
  • Program Management
  • Marketing and Outreach
  • Special Studies
  • Training
  • CD-rom Distribution

10
  • Past Software Releases
  • HAZUS 97
  • HAZUS 99
  • HAZUS 99 Service Release 1
  • Future Software Releases
  • HAZUS 99 Service Release 2, December 2001
  • Flood Module, December 2002
  • Wind, December 2002, 2004
  • Web-enabled software 2005

11
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Marketing Study, April 2002, leads to Outreach
  • Federal Partnerships and Developmental
    Partnerships
  • HAZUS User Group Initiative (web site supported)
  • Course Enhancements
  • Training Strategy through Private Sector
    Initiative
  • Scenario Development for Major Exercises

12
The Earthquake InformationChallenge
  • Boundaries of Seismic Disaster Area
  • Ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides
  • Boundaries of Secondary Disaster Areas
  • Flooding, tsunami, fire
  • Socio-economic Impacts
  • Homes, population, shelters, businesses, local
    govt status
  • Jurisdictional and Geopolitical Boundaries
  • Status of Transportation, Communications,
    Essential Facilities and Critical Infrastructure
  • Hazard Specific Information
  • Tsunami, fire, flood, collapsed structures
    (USAR), HAZMAT

13
HAZUS 99 ANALYSIS OUTPUT andSUMMER 2000
WORKSHOP GOALS
  • GOAL ONE
  • Automated HAZUS Mapping Capability
  • GOAL TWO
  • Emergency Management Protocol
  • GOAL THREE
  • User-Defined Priority Maps
  • GOAL FOUR San Francisco Bay Area HAZUS Risk
    Assessment

Greater San Francisco Bay Area
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Most Probable EarthquakesForecasted for the San
Francisco Bay Area
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Accurate Earthquake-Loss Estimates Require
Successful Partnerships
GeographicInformation SystemProfessionals
EarthScientists
EarthquakeEngineers
  • Risk Managers
  • Local
  • Regional
  • Corporate

16
The HAZUS User GroupPUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
  • 600 Members
  • 175 Organizations
  • GIS Professionals
  • Risk Managers
  • Business Resumption Planners
  • Emergency Managers
  • Earthquake Experts
  • Media Representatives

17
MARKETING MATERIALS
  • Newsletters
  • Brochures
  • Marketing Information Packet
  • PowerPoint Presentations
  • Conference Resource Manual
  • HAZUS User Group Handbook
  • Conference Booth
  • Advanced HAZUS Training for GIS Professionals
  • National HAZUS Map Book
  • www.hazus.org
  • Calendar
  • Meeting Reports
  • Press Releases
  • Earthquake Reports
  • HAZUS maps outputs
  • User Groups around Nation
  • Webmaster, Richard Davies, Executive Director,
    Western Disaster Center

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SoCal HAZUS User GroupTen Counties Accomplishing
More Together
  • Los Angeles
  • Ventura
  • Orange
  • Kern
  • San Bernardino
  • Riverside
  • San Diego
  • Imperial
  • Ventura
  • San Luis Obispo

Southern California
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SoCal HAZUS User Group
  • Vision
  • Ten Counties Accomplishing more Together to
    Build an Earthquake Resistant Community
  • Goal
  • Reduce the Loss of Life and Property after the
    Next Major Southern California Earthquake
  • Objectives
  • Develop an Emergency Management Protocol and
    HAZUS Automated Mapping Capability for
    Response Purposes
  • Create a Comprehensive Earthquake Risk Assessment
    for Southern California Using HAZUS Software

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HAZUS User GroupOrganization
Four Committees User Contributions

Contractor Five-year Strategic Plan
User Applications
Emergency Mgmt. Protocol
Marketing
Database Management
  • Articles of
  • Incorporation
  • Formalize
  • Organization
  • Tabletop Exercises
  • Automate ShakeMap into HAZUS
  • Regional
  • Local
  • City
  • County
  • Corporation

21
Southern California HAZUS User Group 2001 - 2002
Project Strategies
Deliver Post-Earthquake
Loss Estimates
Implement SCEC Risk Assessment Local Pilot
Projects
Train 25 New HAZUS Users
SoCal HAZUS User Group
Inventory and Improve Databases
Develop a Comprehensive Earthquake
Risk Assessment for
Southern California
22
HAZUS User GroupACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Leadership Organization
  • Training Technical Support
  • Marketing Partnerships
  • Web Site Pilot Projects
  • HAZUS Implementation Model for the Nation

Greater San Francisco Bay Area
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SUCCESSES and LESSONS LEARNED
  • SUCCESSES
  • Leadership and Organization
  • Local HAZUS training
  • Partnerships
  • Marketing
  • Earthquake Exercises Earthquake Response
  • HAZUS Pilot Projects
  • LESSONS LEARNED
  • Volunteer leaders will emerge
  • Leads to local acceptance
  • Engage Risk Managers and GIS Professionals as
    partners
  • Marketing has been key to successful partnerships
  • Scientists seek more details while planners
    accept HAZUS results for decision making
  • Require agency partnerships

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OUTCOMES
  • Ten counties accomplishing more together
  • Public-private partnership of earth scientists,
    engineers, risk managers and GIS professionals
  • Build disaster-resistant communities
  • Define physical, social, and economic risk
  • Save lives and reduces property losses
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