At the June 7 CUSEC Board Meeting, Director Robert Latham announced his retirement from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, effective July 1, 2006.  Director Latham was the CUSEC Board Chairman from March 2004 to December 2005 and has played an active role in promoting earthquake mitigation, awareness, planning, and research in the CUSEC states since […]

A new webpage has recently been launched on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Preparedness and Response website that provides information on the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) and the EMAC Environmental Health Assistance Project. Currently, 49 states, two territories and the District of Columbia are signatories to EMAC, which was ratified […]

CUSEC is providing two different summer workshops in 2006.   The first workshop will be an ATC20 Post-Earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings course that teaches attendees how to evaluate buildings for safe occupancy after an earthquake.  This program is useful in other disasters as well.  Typically, after a disaster, emergency management officials work with trained volunteer […]

CUSEC is a co-sponsor of the conference commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, which left many legacies for California, including anticipation of the next, inevitable, great quake. The 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference will bring together earthquake professionals from around the world – scientists, engineers and preparedness experts – in San Francisco on April 18, 2006, […]

The Weather Channel recently started a series of television programs entitled “It Could Happen Tomorrow“, which looks at which looks at the potential for catastrophic disasters impacting various parts of the US. One of those program focus areas is the New Madrid Seismic Zone. This special on the New Madrid will air on March 12, […]