Enhancing The Ability Of Emergency Management
Structures To Stand Alone During Strategic Events
In 1993 The Governor of California, Florida, Arizona, and Texas and
others in the authorized research and creation of auxillary communication technologies based on inability
of FEMA to adequately address strategic events.
This feasability study enhances city and county ability to stand alone for periods of time before federal resources
arrive during a stragetic events. A lot of the focus of these studies will concern itself with improving services to victims of disaster
or the human factor using concepts from USIACH as a model
The Central Valley is ringed by faults – the San Andreas fault, California’s largest, on the west, the Garlock fault to the south, and the faults of the Sierra Nevada to the east. The San Andreas fault will create the biggest earthquakes – as big as magnitude 8 – that will disrupt the whole region. But an earthquake near you can be more damaging to your house than magnitude 8 farther away.