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National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP)
OUTREACH &
IMPLEMENTATION
CLAUDETTE FETTERMAN FEMA NEHRP Senior Program Specialist
Email: [email protected]
Office: 202-646-4344
Topics
• What is NEHRP
• Earthquake Hazard and Risk
• Best Practices
• Challenges
• Current & Future Efforts
• Resources
National Earthquake Hazards
Reduction Program (NEHRP)
• Authority: National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) formed by U.S. Congress in 1977 to “...reduce the risks to life and property from future earthquakes in the United States...” (PL108-360).
• Program Mission: To develop, disseminate, and promote knowledge, tools, and practices for earthquake risk reduction – through coordinated, multi-disciplinary interagency partnerships among the NEHRP agencies and their stakeholders – that improve the nation’s earthquake resilience in public safety, economic strength and national security.
• Primary Role: NEHRP is the coordination point for all U.S earthquake-related activities. NEHRP is a multi-agency program including NIST (lead agency), NSF, USGS, and FEMA.
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FEMA NEHRP Mission
U.S. Earthquake Hazard
Source: 2008 U.S. National Seismic Hazard Map. USGS.
Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3018/pdf/FS08-
3018_508.pdf.
Source: This FEMA-funded CUREE-Caltech Woodframe Project
consists of coordinated engineering investigations and implementation
activities whose objective is to significantly reduce earthquake losses
to woodframe construction. For more info:
http://www.curee.org/projects/woodframe/index.html
Structural Issues
Non-Structural Issues
Non-Structural Issues
NEHRP Outreach Best Practices
1. Use of science and research
2. Clear, consistent, and
persistent messaging
3. Risk perception and
identifying good audience
4. Link seismic safety to other
issues
5. Identify potential opponent
6. Use media wisely
7. Create multi-disciplinary
partnerships& coalitions
8. Make seismic safety efforts
permanent
NEHRP Outreach Challenges
• Selling Earthquake Mitigation: – A culture where the public demands safety
• Decision Making and Strategy Development: – Actionable policies and user-friendly tools
– Inclusive stakeholder participation
• Incentives and Mandates to Encourage Investment: – Code adoption and enforcement
– Grants and cooperative agreements
– Integration of earthquake mitigation into EM Planning
– Tax credit or increase in property value
• Future of Mitigation: – More research, better tools and technologies
– More inter-disciplinary approach to the science of risk assessment and the practice of engineering
– Greater coordination of mitigation and sustainability goals
Current & Future NEHRP
Outreach Efforts • DHS, FEMA, and FIMA
Strategic Plans
• Building Codes and Standards
• Tools and Guidance
Development
• Training and Outreach
• Technical Assistance
• Cooperative Agreements
• Policy and Guidance
• Community Activism through
Partners
FEMA NEHRP Resources
TO DOWNLOAD ONLINE: http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/earthquake/publications.shtm
TO ORDER COPIES:
Contact FEMA Publications Warehouse: – Phone: 800-480-2520
– Fax: 240-699-0525
– Email: [email protected]
FEMA EARTHQUAKE WEBSITE http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/earthquake
CONTENTS
Publications Events
Grants Contacts
Training Reports