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It is not too late to register for the IAEM 64th Annual Conference & EMEX, Oct. 14-19, 2016, in Savannah, Georgia – the premiere event for emergency managers. View the online program and mobile app for details. If you can’t make it to the conference in person, attend virtually via the IAEM Digital Pass. The Digital Pass will provide you with five live streamed sessions (four of them recorded) and an additional eight recorded learning experiences available when you have the time to view them. More importantly, if you are working towards your certification, participation in the Digital Pass earns a maximum of 13 contact hours toward the CEM® or AEM® under Training or Professional Contribution (Category B – Professional Conference Attendance). The cost for the Digital Pass is $25 for IAEM student members, $89 for IAEM members, and $197 for non-members.
The Jakarta Post
The country’s disaster management agencies will be more frequently using unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, in preparing for humanitarian aid, as the technology has significantly improved ways to manage responses to disasters.
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Canadian Underwriter
The initial estimate of the insured property market loss for the damage caused by the earthquake in central Italy on Aug. 24 is 34 million euros, according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data.
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Muscat Daily
Disaster management experts in Oman have called for greater representation from private and non-governmental organizations in the National Committee for Civil Defence to effectively deal with disasters such as tropical cyclones.
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News.com.au
Residents in northern parts of the nation are being warned to prepare for a busy cyclone season with at least 11 storms expected to form.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s Climate Prediction Services Manager Dr. Andrew Watkins said the very active season is due to neutral to weak La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is currently undertaking a project on Authentication for Law Enforcement Vehicle Systems and is seeking feedback from Emergency Services Sector organizations. Please review the draft project description and send your comments via the online comments form or email. The comments period closes on Nov. 10, 2016.
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The National Governors Association (NGA) has developed a new issue brief, Improving State Efforts to Prepare and Respond to Public Health Emergencies, highlighting steps that states can take to improve preparedness when dealing with public health emergencies. The report also provides action items that governors can take back to their states to improve preparedness.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Oct. 4 released State Mitigation Planning Key Topics Bulletin: Mitigation Capabilities, now available in the FEMA Library. This document provides a framework states can use to inventory and assess their hazard mitigation capabilities, including the authorities, policies, programs, staff, funding, and other resources available to accomplish mitigation and reduce long-term vulnerability. The bulletin also provides approaches for analyzing local and tribal mitigation planning capabilities for incorporation into the State Mitigation Plan. Information and updates on FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Planning Program are available online.
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SFGate
A new fault in California has been discovered by scientists, and it runs parallel to the San Andreas Fault along the northeastern shore of the Salton Sea.
That finding was published in the "Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America," and coincidentally follows a swarm of earthquakes in that area that started on Sept. 27, and placed Southern California on alert for the possibility of a major quake.
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The IAEM Think Tank will focus on “Active Shooter/Threat: The Emergency Management Perspective,” taking place on Oct. 17, 2016, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EDT. The event will take place live at the IAEM Annual Conference in Savannah, Georgia, but there are two other ways to participate – by webinar or hear the recording in the members only section of the website. With the rise in active shooter or threat incidents around the world, it is important to discuss emergency management’s role in not only preparing their community, but responding to and recovering from an event. Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly. The IAEM Think Tank, which will focus on active shooter situations from the emergency management perspective, will be facilitated by Rich Serino and will feature Kathryn Brinsfield, MD, MPH, assistant secretary for health affairs and CMO, Office of Health Affairs, DHS; Gregory Brunelle, vice president of emergency management and community resilience, Tetra Tech; James Caesar, emergency manager, University of California, Santa Barbara; John C. Luther, director, Washington County (Arkansas) Department of Emergency Management/911 Operations; and Ray Mollers, emergency medical services program manager, Office of Health Affairs, DHS.
Campus Safety
Figures from a new study show an increase in the number of shootings on or near college campuses over the last 15 years.
The study, conducted by the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, looked at 190 incidents where at least one person was shot at 142 colleges from the 2001-2002 school year to the 2015-2016 school year.
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Popular Science
As Hurricane Matthew barreled toward the Southeast, millions of Americans fixated on a single measure of its destructive power: wind speed. While they tracked miles per hour like adrenaline junkies watching a speedometer, they took their eyes off a far more important factor. It was rain, not wind that dealt the most damage as Matthew rumbled ashore.
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Enid News
Depth factors into how much damage an earthquake may cause.
Temblors of the same magnitude will generally have less effect at the surface if they are deep, Oklahoma Geological Survey Director Jeremy Boak said.
In some cases, the amount of shaking that goes on is conditioned by ground conditions, soil conditions and things like that, Boak said.
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NBC News
Relatives of victims people killed in the March 2014 Oso mudslide reached a $50 million settlement Sunday with the State of Washington just one day before their lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial, lawyers for the families said.
The settlement, which must be approved by the judge overseeing the case, would dismiss almost all claims only hours before the civil trial was to have begun Monday in King County Superior Court.
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Today via MSN
Amidst all the government warnings, politicians urging evacuation and dire predictions by meteorologists, there is one development that officially drives home the point that a serious hurricane is on the way.
The local Waffle House is closed. The chain of 24-hour diners in the South is known to stay open through almost anything. When the company announced on Friday that a stretch of 25 locations in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina would be closed as Hurricane Matthew approached, that was a sign to many about the storm's severity.
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SFGate
Wildfires in California and across the West have become twice as destructive over the past three decades due to climate change, taking a toll that will only continue to escalate, according to research.
The study by scientists at the University of Idaho and Columbia University found that 10.4 million acres — an area about 30 times the size of Los Angeles — burned between 1984 and 2015 as a direct result of human-caused global warming. A total of 23.5 million acres was scorched in Western states during the period.
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Science Alert
Researchers in Southern California have discovered a new type of earthquake that can occur a lot deeper than expected — more than 15 miles deep, in Earth's upper mantle.
This new type of earthquake can't be detected by traditional seismic sensors, and has the potential to make quakes much more destructive than previously predicted.
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Geektime
Concerns that the global energy infrastructure is becoming an increasingly tempting target for disruption and sabotage is on the rise. The International Atomic Energy Agency reiterated its concerns about attacks on nuclear systems this week, with director Yukiya Amano telling Reuters that there has been at least one successful disruptive attack on a nuclear power plant several years ago – though he did not name the plant, specify the extent of the attack, or disclose who carried it out.
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Get your moment in the spotlight! IAEM will be collecting short (20-30 second) video clips sharing positive messaging about attendees’ experiences at the conference as well as testimonials for IAEM certification. Please help us out and tell your story. The IAEM-USA Emerging Technology Caucus and other volunteers will assist you at the Crisis Technology Center located in EMEX Booth 205. Suggested themes and guiding questions will be available. Stop by to sign up for an available time, or send a tweet (or Twitter DM) to @iaemetc to set up a time.
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Certification applications received through the online application system by Oct. 31, 2016, will be reviewed in November. This will be the last online review of the year.
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Effective Jan. 1, 2017, Canadian CEM® applicants will be required to submit any three- or four-year bachelor program or any post-graduate degree in emergency management or related field from a regionally accredited institution. Currently, Canadian CEM® candidates may substitute experience for a degree to meet the education component of the credential. This equivalency will expire at the end of 2016. Once the new education requirement goes into effect, candidates will no longer have the option of substituting extra years of emergency management work experience in lieu of the education requirement. This will bring Canada CEM® candidates in line with USA, Europa, and Oceania CEM® candidates.
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The Global Preparedness Center has published the final Report of the 2016 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, which was held in August 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand, and hosted by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Sahana Software Foundation. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Telecommunication Union, the OASIS standards organization, and the World Meteorological Organization sponsored the workshop. CAP Implementation Workshops focus on emergency alerting as enabled by the CAP standard, ITU-T Recommendation X.1303. At the workshops, implementers of CAP and associated organizations discuss common issues and how best to expand adoption of CAP. Workshop presentations are also available online. Tentative plans are underway to hold a 2017 CAP Implementation Workshop in Rome and a 2018 CAP Implementation Workshop in Hong Kong.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Program Management Office held a webinar on the IPAWS Alert Origination Service Provider on Oct. 11, 2016. The webinar provided users and developers with learning opportunities and methods to share best practices. The webinar recording is now online. A webinar transcript can be requested via email to IPAWS@fema.dhs.gov.
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Cast members of the CBS TV series Code Black promoted the new White House initiative, “Stop the Bleed,” in a new 20-second “CBS Cares” PSA broadcast following the new Code Black episode that aired Oct. 12, 2016, on the CBS Television Network. The 60-second version is available online. “Stop the Bleed” was developed to teach the public how to save lives by taking specific actions to stop life-threatening bleeding. As part of the initiative, bleeding control kits, which include items such as gloves, bleeding control dressings, and a tourniquet, are being placed in public spaces to be used in case of an emergency. The kits are displayed and demonstrated in various episodes of Code Black. For more information about the “Stop the Bleed” initiative, visit www.bleedingcontrol.org and www.dhs.gov/stopthebleed.
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Due to recent tropical weather activity and the probability of many new program suggestions since Hurricane Matthew, the Governor’s Hurricane Conference (GHC) program committee has extended its call for speaker presentations until Oct. 28, 2016. The call for presentations form is posted online, along with other information about the conference. The 2017 GHC, scheduled for May 14-19, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Florida, will focus on hurricane planning, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. The event provides an opportunity to learn from the successes of others and identify proven best practices, as well as learn what mistakes to avoid before it's too late. The 2017 GHC will include: more than 300 hours of training sessions and workshops; talks from emergency management and industry leaders; technical and in-depth disaster preparedness, weather, and emergency management discussions; and 100+ vendors showcasing state-of-the-art technologies, products, and services.
Jagran Josh
India will host the Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) from 3 November to 5 November 2016.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the conference that will be held in New Delhi in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
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Reuters
Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people.
The powerful hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into Haiti on Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour winds and torrential rains that left 1.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
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The Guardian
The death toll from Hurricane Matthew in the United States climbed again on Tuesday as officials warned of a continuing threat from floodwaters still rising in several areas of North Carolina.
Overnight, four more people were reported killed in the state, Governor Pat McCrory announced at a morning briefing, bringing the tally in North Carolina to 14.
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CBS News
Hurricane Matthew tore through the Bahamas last Thursday, the wind and storm surge was so powerful boats were smashed onto shore.
Hurricane winds over 140 mph ripped the roof off of a house in the Bahamas.
CBS News felt the wrath of Matthew as the storm hit overnight in Exuma.
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Herald Sun
The death toll from Typhoon Megi has risen to 24.
Bodies were still being recovered on Saturday from landslides triggered by the storm, which wreaked havoc in south eastern China 10 days ago.
More than 1,600 rescuers were searching for nine people still missing under rocks and sludge in the village of Sucun in Zhejiang province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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