NH21D-05
CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE CLEARINGHOUSE: ADVOCATING FOR, AND ADVANCING, COLLABORATION AND TECHNOLOGY INTEROPERABILITY, BETWEEN THE SCIENTIFIC AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMUNITIES, TO PRODUCE ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE FOR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, AND DECISION SUPPORT
Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:37
104 (Moscone South)
Anne Rosinski1, Phil Beilin2, Jonathan Colwell3, Michael Hornick3, Margaret T Glasscoe4, James Morentz5, Svetlana Smorodinsky6, Anne Millington7, Kenneth W Hudnut8, Paul Penn9, Maggie Ortiz10, Marie Kennedy11, Kate Long12, Kevin Miller13 and Megan Stromberg14, (1)California Geological Survey Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)City of Walnut Creek, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (3)Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region IX, Oakland, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JWMorentz LLC, Bethesda, MD, United States, (6)California Department of Public Health, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, Richmond, CA, United States, (7)California Department of Public Health, Enterprise GIS Technology Services, Sacramento, CA, United States, (8)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Emergency Management and Refinery Safety, Sacramento, CA, United States, (10)Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA, United States, (11)San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center, Geospatial Intelligence, San Diego, CA, United States, (12)Cal EMA, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)California Office of Emergency Services, Governor's Office, San Francisco, CA, United States, (14)California National Guard, Joint Forces Headquarters, Sacramento, CA, United States
Abstract:
The Clearinghouse provides emergency management and response professionals, scientific and engineering communities with prompt information on ground failure, structural damage, and other consequences from significant seismic events such as earthquakes or tsunamis. Clearinghouse activations include participation from Federal, State and local government, law enforcement, fire, EMS, emergency management, public health, environmental protection, the military, public and non-governmental organizations, and private sector. For the August 24, 2014 S. Napa earthquake, over 100 people from 40 different organizations participated during the 3-day Clearinghouse activation. Every organization has its own role and responsibility in disaster response; however all require authoritative data about the disaster for rapid hazard assessment and situational awareness. The Clearinghouse has been proactive in fostering collaboration and sharing Essential Elements of Information across disciplines. The Clearinghouse-led collaborative promotes the use of standard formats and protocols to allow existing technology to transform data into meaningful incident-related content and to enable data to be used by the largest number of participating Clearinghouse partners, thus providing responding personnel with enhanced real-time situational awareness, rapid hazard assessment, and more informed decision-making in support of response and recovery. The Clearinghouse efforts address national priorities outlined in USGS Circular 1242, Plan to Coordinate NEHRP post-earthquake investigations and S. 740–Geospatial Data Act of 2015, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), to streamline and coordinate geospatial data infrastructure, maximizing geospatial data in support of the Robert T. Stafford Act. Finally, the US Dept. of Homeland Security, Geospatial Management Office, recognized Clearinghouse’s data sharing efforts as a Best Practice to be included in the forthcoming 2015 HLS Geospatial Concept of Operations.
