Earthquake hazards policy talk tomorrow

February 21st, 2007

Posted by: admin

Anybody ready for some non-climate stuff?

For those of you around here I’m giving a talk on my earthquake mitigation policy work tomorrow here at the Center (noon). I’ll be covering the earthquake damages data and what it says about mitigation success (out of a paper that is still – ahem – “under review” after – ahem – eight months – at a certain natural hazards journal). I’ll also be covering details of the NEHRP program, why Congress has been schizophrenic on the issue, when we can expect the next Big One and how much it’s going to cost, what our damages look like compared to the rest of the world, and the winning PowerBall numbers for this Saturday’s draw. Whew!

After the talk I’ll post my PPT and an accompanying white paper (because it’s hard to get the full message from a PPT, isn’t it?).

For what it’s worth, yes, I am dabbling pretty hard here. In addition to the quake stuff I’ve got a pre-print/submission coming soon on abandoned mine policy and a talk on that in the late spring, and an upcoming set of papers on the NYC water supply and policy implications (details to be blogged about over the next couple of months), and the background climate policy stuff that’s always there.

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