CUSEC is pleased to announce that Kansas has been voted in as the tenth associate member state by the CUSEC Board of Directors. This addition comes at the request of Major General, Tod Bunting, State Director of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management (KEM). In a letter to the CUSEC Board of Directors, Director Bunting […]

President Barack Obama on Wednesday tapped Florida emergency manager Craig Fugate to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Prior to the nomination, Fugate has been the Florida Division of Emergency Management Director since 2001.  Fugate’s department was held up as a national model after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He said then that the […]

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced this month that it will award up to $7 million in grants and cooperative agreements for earthquake research in 2010.   Interested researchers can apply online at GRANTS.GOV under the funding opportunity number 10HQPA0001.  Applications are due May 13, 2009.  The USGS awards approximately 90 research grants annually to universities, […]

Each year in late January and in February, several CUSEC States participate in joint efforts to raise the level of earthquake awareness in the central United States.  Activities include things such as Press Conferences, Governor’s Proclamations, Town Hall Meetings, Exhibits, Earthquake related training, and much more.  In 2009, States holding Earthquake Awareness Activities include Arkansas, […]

There will be a special session at the April 2009 Seismological Society of America Meeting entitled  “M5.2 Mt. Carmel, Illinois, Earthquake, 18 April 2008”.  The 18 April 2008 M5.2 Mt. Carmel earthquake is the most densely recorded moderate-sized earthquake to date in the Eastern U.S. It is also the largest earthquake to strike the central […]