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Recent subduction zone earthquakes around the world underscore the catastrophic impacts we will face when the next CSZ earthquake and tsunami occurs in our region:
Indonesia (2004): M9.1 --- 228,000 fatalities
Chile (2010): M8.8 --- 500 fatalities
Japan (2011): M9.0 --- 18,000 fatalities
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
PS. If I send you all the drill details I get EVERY DAY from all over the country requesting participation from us all...you'd flip out in panic and jump off a cliff.
Seriously...we are serious. You should be glad we are...
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: SeaWorthy
Whats youre point? I am a !st Responder for FEMA-Homeland Security in medical disaster response. We have these all the time...even of the magnitude you describe here. By the way...WE were told its not that big of a deal compared to some other exercises.
We train because we HAVE to. In all shapes, modes, scenarios, locations, reasonings and expectations no matter how far out they may seem to you.
You'd all want us to train, rt??????? Seriously...its just another drill.
MS
1st Responder
EMT/Emergency Response Team
Advanced Disaster Life Support
FEMA/Homeland Security
Region 2 South
Wayne County, Michigan USA
originally posted by: EmmanuelGoldstein
Are you trying to say that from now until the election TPTB are going to use weather modification systems like HAARP to create giant earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding and drought as a possible means of suspending the election due to multiple national disasters wherein FEMA then takes over while martial law is declared and the military is brought in to police every town?
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: SeaWorthy
Whats youre point? I am a !st Responder for FEMA-Homeland Security in medical disaster response. We have these all the time...even of the magnitude you describe here. By the way...WE were told its not that big of a deal compared to some other exercises.
We train because we HAVE to. In all shapes, modes, scenarios, locations, reasonings and expectations no matter how far out they may seem to you.
You'd all want us to train, rt??????? Seriously...its just another drill.
MS
1st Responder
EMT/Emergency Response Team
Advanced Disaster Life Support
FEMA/Homeland Security
Region 2 South
Wayne County, Michigan USA
originally posted by: diggindirt
a reply to: SeaWorthy
What, exactly, is a "simulated field response"? Is this another of those computer simulated things? Those kinds of drills are going on constantly in the New Madrid zone. All localities conduct these disaster drills all the time. Sometimes it's an earthquake scenario, sometimes it's accidental chemical spills, sometimes other types of disasters. Been happening at least since the late '70s in our area and surprisingly enough, we always managed back then without any direction from FEMA.
Even though I'm no longer actively associated with the participating organizations, I'm told that the FEMA advisors are sent from other states and don't even have a basic knowledge of the area. As one local leader put it, "They are useless and they get in the way of people who actually know what they're doing."
More fear porn from overpaid federal bureaucrazies! Why not just make a bunch of signs saying, "The end is near!"???
I bet when it happens i will be down one of the miles long trails in the drowning zone and my only run speed is slow!
In response to the Nisqually earthquake of 2001, the Division was awarded a grant by FEMA and the Washington Emergency Management Division to develop two types of earthquake hazard maps for every county in the state—liquefaction susceptibility maps, which outline areas where water-saturated sandy soil loses strength during earthquake shaking, and NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program) site class maps, which outline areas where soils amplify ground shaking.