# Presentation: 394458

## CUSEC Earthquake-Related Training and Exercises

**National Preparedness Directorate**
**Training and Exercise Conference**
**May 14, 2008**

## CUSEC – What are we?

## Our Mission

**"... the reduction of deaths, injuries, property damage and economic losses resulting from earthquakes in the Central United States." **

## CUSEC Goals

**To raise the level of ****public awareness**** of the earthquake hazard in the central U.S.**
**To promote the adoption of ****mitigation programs, tools, and techniques**** to reduce vulnerability**
**To foster ****multi-state planning for response and recovery**** to a damaging earthquake**
**To promote the ****application of research and lessons learned**** to improve the level of preparedness**

## Member and Associate States

## CUSEC Associations

**Association of CUSEC Public Information Officers**
**Association of CUSEC State Geologists **
**CUSEC State Transportation Task Force **
**CUSEC State Communications Officers **
**CUSEC Exercise Officers' Working Group**

## Catastrophic Planning

**Efforts are to develop or improve catastrophic annexes to state plans, and to develop the nation’s first plan for dealing with a catastrophic earthquake in the NMSZ.**
**Planners have been hired for all eight states and four corresponding FEMA regions.**
**States are holding planning meetings at local and state levels.**
**Efforts will culminate in a major exercise in 2011**

## CUSEC Training Efforts

**CUSEC-sponsored**
**CUSEC-initiated**

## Combined ATC 20/21

**Combines two closely related classes for similar audiences**
**ATC 21 (FEMA 154) “Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards”**
**ATC 20 “Post Earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings”**
**Possible TTT in FY 2008**

## Earthquake Non-Structural Mitigation Workshop

**Presented in partnership with FEMA**
**Includes overviews of threat and state programs**
**Structural Basics**
**Non-Structural Elements & Hazards**
**Non-Structural Mitigation Projects**
**Funding and Grant Sources**

## “The Central US is Earthquake Country”

**New basic EQ threat course intended for state delivery**
**Standardized half-day course**
**Covers the present science, explanation of the threat, specifics on earthquakes in that state, explanation of state and/or local planning efforts, and safety planning for before, during, and after the quake**

## “The Central US is Earthquake Country” (cont.)

**Loosely based on program created by Southern California Earthquake Center**
**Includes “Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety”**
**Future plans call for development of hardbound materials, multi-media, and other training**

## Disaster Medicine 101

**Revival of class CUSEC last held in the early 1990’s**
**Co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)**
**DM101 is a big-picture overview of public health and medical issues related to the earthquake threat in the New Madrid Seismic Zone**
**Single-day class intended for public health officials, first responders, medical professionals, emergency managers and other concerned with public health issues following an earthquake.**

## Disaster Medicine 101 Topics

**The New Madrid Earthquake Threat**
**Effects of a Major Earthquake on Key Infrastructure (Health and Medical Emphasis)**
**Rapid Assessments and Disease Surveillance Activities during a Major Disaster**
**Risk Communications During Times of Crisis**
**Role of the Environmental Health Specialist During a Disaster**
**Earthquake Disaster-Related Injuries and Injury Prevention**
**Disaster Mental Health Consequences:  Protecting the Responders**

## Disaster Medicine 101 (cont.)

**Presented in past year in Memphis, TN and Sikeston, MO**
**Class size will be limited to 100**
**Instructors from CDC, CUSEC, Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), North Carolina Division of Public Health, Mississippi Department of Mental Health, and Tennessee Task Force One**

## Future Plans

**Disaster Medicine 201**
**One-day course for medical professionals and first responders**
**Will concentrate on injuries expected following an earthquake**
**Injury and treatment-specific**
**Possible development of a logistics course for state and local agencies**

## FEMA Courses Delivered by States

**Seismic Retrofit Training for Building Contractors and Inspectors (G225)**
**Mitigation and Recovery Exercises- Earthquake (G398.1)**
**Earthquake Safety Program for Schools (G434)**
**Earthquakes: A Teacher’s Package for K–6 (G436)**
**Seismic Sleuths: A Teacher’s Package on Earthquakes for Grades 7–12 (G439)**

## FEMA Independent Study

**IS-8.A Building for the Earthquakes of Tomorrow: Complying with Executive Order 12699**
_**[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is8a.asp](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is8a.asp)**_

## December 2007 Meeting of CUSEC State Exercise Officers

**First meeting of Exercise Officers of CUSEC States**
**Agreed to form a Working Group**
**Made recommendations for the CUSEC board**
**Attendees were asked to submit ballpark estimates of a 2011 EQ Exercise and a timeline of lead-up exercises and meetings.**

## Consensus Items from December Meeting

**2011 EQ Exercise should be planned “Bottom-up”**
**Each CUSEC state should have a Co-Director on the exercise group/planning committee **
**CUSEC (should) manage the distribution of federal funding as under the NMSZ catastrophic planning project. **

## State Baseline Estimates

**Alabama**
**Arkansas**
**Illinois**
**Indiana**
**Kentucky**
**Mississippi**
**Missouri**
**Tennessee**

**N/A**
**$7,306,500.00**
**$1,790,000.00**
**$1,684,500.00**
**$3,000,000.00**
**$2,325,000.00**
**$1,000,000.00**
**$3,800,000.00**

- TOTAL:  $20,906,000.00

## 2008 Calendar Year Projected Exercises (All CUSEC)

| Q1 Jan-Mar | Q2  Apr-Jun | Q3  Jul-Sep | Q4 Oct-Dec |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AR - TBD:  Impact County TTX’s
IN - State EOC Seminar
Dist.#10 Workshop
Dist.#5,7,8,9 Workshop | AR - Sister County Concept Workshops (6 Pilot Counties)
IN - Dist.#7 DBE
KY – State Planning Workshop | AR - NMSZ SEOC Drill
(CAP Exercise sync)
IN - State EOC TTX
Dist.#4 FSE
State FSE (With D#4)
KY – Budget Approval?
MO - 1 Oct 2008 Estimated date of contractor support 
thru CUSEC   
TN – Contractor on board | AR - State / Local Response TTX
KY – Tabletop Exercise Area 1
TN – State/Local Workshop/Conf |

## 2009 Calendar Year Projected Exercises (All CUSEC)

| Q1 Jan-Mar | Q2 Apr-Jun | Q3 Jul-Sep | Q4 Oct-Dec |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AR - State / Local FE (Including 6 Pilot Sister Counties)
IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg
KY – Tabletop Exercise Area 2
MO - TTX – St. Louis City
TTX – Franklin County
TN – Initial Planning Conf (IPC) | AR - State / Local Response Workshop
IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg
IN - Dist.#7 FSE
State FSE (With D#7)
Dist.#8 DBE
KY – Tabletop Exercise Area 3
MO - TTX – Hannibal
TTX  - Malden
TTX – St. Charles County
TTX – Jefferson County | AR - NMSZ SEOC Drill (CAP Exercise sync)
IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg 
KY – Functional Exercise Area 1
MO - TTX – St. Louis City
TTX – SEOC
TTX – Rolla
TTX – St. Louis County
TN - Final Planning Conf
Table-Top Exercise (TTX) | AR - State / Local Response TTX
IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg
KY - Functional Exercise Area 2
MS - Tabletop Exercise to include MS, TN, and FL (EMAC).  Cost covers travel, lodging, equipment, etc. for multiple planning meetings
MO - TTX – West Plains
TTX – St. Charles County
TTX  - Cape Girardeau
TN - Fed/State/Local
Workshop/Conf, AAR                     |

## 2010 Calendar Year Projected Exercises (All CUSEC)

| Q1 Jan-Mar | Q2 Apr-Jun | Q3 Jul-Sep | Q4 Oct-Dec |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AR - Sister County Workshops (all counties) – continuing into Q2
IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg
KY - Functional Exercise Area 3
MO - TTX – St. Louis City
TTX – Dexter
TTX – Jefferson County
TN - Initial Planning Conf (IPC) | IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg
IN - Comm. Drill (Cross Border?)
KY – Staging Area Exercise 
MO - TTX – St. Louis County
FE – SEOC
FE – Hannibal
TTX – Franklin County
TN - Middle Planning Conf
Final Planning Conf | AR - NMSZ FSE 
(CAP Exercise sync & 2011 “dress rehearsal”)
IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg
IN - Dist.#9 DBE
Dist.#4,#8 FSE
State FSE (With D#4,D#8)
KY – Full Scale Areas 1, 2, and 3
MO - TTX – St. Louis City
FE – West Plain
FE – Cape Girardeau
TN - Functional Exercise (FE)
Exercise MSEL
Sync | IL – TICP FE
TTX Reg
IN - Dist.#5 DBE
MS - Full-scale exercise utilizing Camp McCain in MS.  Will necessitate the movement of military equipment and personnel
MO - FE – St. Louis City
FE – St. Louis County
FE – Rolla
TN - Fed/State/Local
Workshop/Conf |

## 2011 Calendar Year Projected Exercises (All CUSEC)

| Q1 Jan-Mar | Q2 Apr-Jun (Expected Regional Exercise) | Q3 | Q4 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IL - State TICP/FE
State TTX/FE
IN - Dist.#2 DBE
TN - Exercise MSEL
Sync | AR - 2011 FSE (Pilot Sister County Deployment, State asset deployment, & CAP sorties)
IL - State Full Scale
EQX
IN - Dist #5,#9 FSE
State FSE (With D#5,D#9)
MS - Cost covers travel, lodging, movement of military equipment, etc.
TN - 2011 (FE/FSE)
AAR |  |  |

## Consensus Items from EOWGApril 1 Conference Call

**The CUSEC states stress again the importance of holding a Tier One earthquake exercise in 2011, not 2010 as is currently on the National Exercise Program Schedule.**
**Regular state Homeland Security grant funding is inadequate for what the states require for the 2011 exercise and lead-up efforts.**

## Consensus Items from EOWGApril 1 Conference Call (cont.)

**The timeline and objectives used by the states and the federal government for the 2011 exercise should be the same.**
**Most states recognize that there will be a need for additional personnel in the states to facilitate exercise planning and execution.**

## Paul Hogue

**phogue@cusec.org**
**(901) 544-0536**
**Main Office**
**cusec@cusec.org**
**(901) 544-3570**