**November 21, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) BUSINESS CONTINUITY:

IBM Solutions. \"Panic Slowly: Integrated Disaster Response and Built-In
Business Continuity.\" IBM Solutions Point of View, September 2006, 14
pages. Assessed at:

<http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/itservice_library/bcrs/a1000411/lib_5?ca=DRJ>

\(2\) EARTHQUAKE:

United Press International. \"Scientists Rank Top 10 U.S. Quake
States.\"

November 20, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061120-015357-3821r]{.underline}](http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061120-015357-3821r)

\[Excerpt: \"Seismologists at the Nevada Seismological Laboratory have
ranked the United States\' most-earthquake-prone states\.... The
rankings, based on the magnitude of earthquakes that occurs once per
year on

average:

Alaska, 6.70;

California, 6.02;

Nevada, 5.11;

Hawaii, 5.00;

Washington, 4.97;

Wyoming, 4.67;

Idaho, 4.57;

Montana, 4.47;

Utah, 4.29; and

Oregon, 4.24.

\"The reason for talking about this is \... to motivate people to build
structures that resist earthquakes,\" said NSL Director John Anderson.
\'If you\'re on this Top 10 list, hopefully it will motivate you to be
better prepared in the event of a large earthquake.\' Anderson and
colleague Yuichiro Miyata analyzed the U.S. Geological Survey\'s
Advanced National Seismic System\'s catalog of earthquakes, which
contains data from 1898-2005. The researchers supplemented that with
data from the USGS catalog of significant U.S. earthquakes from
1568-1989. The research appears in the November/December issue of the
journal Seismological Research Letters.\"\]

\(3\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:

Congressional Research Service. Federal Emergency Management Policy
Changes After Hurricane Katrina: A Summary of Statutory Provisions.
Washington DC: CRS (Keith Bea, et al.), November 15, 2006, 61 pages.

\[Received the above-noted report from Bill Cumming and have forwarded
it to the EMI Webmaster for upload to the EM HiEd Project Website \-- EM
References section \-- where it should be accessible shortly.\]

\(4\) HAZARDS, DISASTERS AND U.S. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT \-- AN
INTRODUCTION (WORKING DRAFT):

After recently emailing several individuals updated course sessions from
this set of material first put together in 1999 to support an
Introduction to Emergency Management course I taught at Shenandoah
University, have decided that even though this material is still very
much dated and working draft it would save time if it were accessible
from the EM HiEd Project website. Thus, have asked the webmaster to
delete the first six sessions of the \"Hazards, Disasters and U.S.
Emergency Management \-- An Introduction\" course on the website \--
Free College Courses tab \-- Courses Under development suction \-- and
replace that material with the following:

Session 1 \-- Introduction and Syllabus

Session 2 \-- What are Hazards?

Session 3 \-- Hazard Taxonomies

Session 4 \-- Hazard as Actuality \-- Terms and Typology

Session 5 \-- The Four Theories of Disaster

Session 6 \-- Defining Disasters

Session 7 \-- Overview of U.S. Hazards

Session 8 \-- Disaster as a Growth Business

Session 9 \-- Historical Overview of U.S. Emergency Management

Session 10\-- Scope of U.S. Emergency Management

Session 11\-- Models of Emergency Management

Session 12\-- Approaches to Emergency Management

Session 13\-- Fundamentals of U.S. Emergency Management Part I (CEM,
Functional EM)

Session 14\-- Fundamentals of U.S. Emergency Management Part II
(Intergovernmental Context, Coordination and Communication, IEMS)

Session 15\-- Fundamentals of U.S. Emergency Management Part III (The
Four Phases, Building Disaster Resilient Communities)

The remaining, essentially un-changed sessions, will be renumbered.

This material should be accessible shortly.

\(5\) MATERIALS RECEIVED:

Emergency Preparedness News, Vol. 30, No. 15, August 16, 2006; and Vol.

30, No. 16, September 2006. (Biweekly, Business Publishers, Inc. 8737

Colesville Rd., Suite 100, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3928, (301) 589-5103,

\(800\) 274-6737, (301) 589-8493 (fax), URL:
[[http://www.bpinews.com]{.underline}](http://www.bpinews.com/).)

Natural Hazards, Vol. 39, No. 2, October 2006. (Journal of the
International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural
Hazards, Kluwer Academic Publisher, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station,
Hingham, MA 02018-0358, URL:
[[www.kluweronline.nl]{.underline}](../www.kluweronline.nl) )

Natural Hazards Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, November 2006. (Published
quarterly American Society of Civil Engineers and Natural Hazards
Research and Applications Information Center at the University of
Colorado at Boulder. For information email the ASCE Journals Department
at: <journal-services@asce.org>.)

Unscheduled Events, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2006. (Newsletter of the
International Sociological Association\'s International Research
Committee on Disaster (RC 39). For information contract IRCD President
Dr. Robert A. Stallings at: <rstallin@usc.edu>)

\(6\) VOLUNTEER AND DONATIONS MANAGEMENT:

Received today the following document, which was forwarded on to the EMI
Webmaster for upload to the EM HiEd Project website \-- EM References
Section \-- as a separate \"bullet\" \-- should be accessible for
download shortly.

FEMA. \"Volunteer and Donations Management - Informational Overview.\"

Working Draft Power Point Presentation, November 2006, 18 slides.

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, K-011

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu)

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