CISN Outreach: Transferring Real-Time Information Products to Users

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CISN Outreach Transferring Real-Time
Information Products to Users

• A Report to the CISN Steering and Advisory
  Committees
• Berkeley, August 30, 2006

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CISN Outreach Working Group

• Rich Eisner, CA Office of Emergency Services
• Susan Garcia, USGS Menlo Park
• Peggy Hellweg, UC Berkeley Seismo Lab, Co-Chair
• Jim Goltz, CA Office of Emergency Services,
  Co-Chair
• Hamid Haddadi, CA Geological Survey
• Nick Scheckel, Caltech Seismo Lab
• Tony Shakal, CA Geological Survey
• Currently Vacant, USGS Pasadena
• Margaret Vinci, Caltech Office of Earthquake
  Programs

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Outreach Mission

• To identify, develop, promote
• and disseminate information
• about earthquake products and
• new technologies produced by
• the California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN)

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Outreach Objectives

• Identify CISN products that have implications for
  public safety or increasing earthquake awareness
  and understanding
• Develop mechanisms for information and technology
  transfer to specific target audiences
• Present new real-time information and
  technologies in formats that can be readily
  assimilated by users
• Target critical users for CISN products and work
  with them to facilitate use
• Obtain feedback from targeted users regarding
  utilization and recommendations for improvement
  in CISN products
•  Coordinate outreach efforts among the CISN
  member institutions and the Advanced National
  Seismic System

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CISN Products

• CISN Display
• ShakeMap
• ShakeMap/HAZUS Interface
• Earthquake Notification
• Special Reports on Significant Earthquakes
• Strong Motion Data and Quick Reports
• Websites www.cisn.org and eoc.cisn.org

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Current and Planned Outreach Activities

• CISN Display

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CISN Display 2006 Activities

• Continued phased dissemination of CISN Display
• CISN Display was prominently featured at Quake
  06 Conference in San Francisco in April
• Introduced Version 1.3 on August 28

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New Features of Version 1.3

• Improved ability to work in environments with
  restrictive firewalls
• Much improved GIS layers for coastlines and lakes
• Can be configured to send out e-mail, Pager or
  PDA messages for user defined events
• Events with Tsunami messages are tagged with a
  T (like ShakeMap with an S)
• Event list in right-hand side of CD can be sorted
  by time of occurrence or magnitude

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Current and Planned Outreach Activities

• ShakeMap/HAZUS

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ShakeMap for Scenario Earthquake
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CSU Campus Overlay
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Loss Estimation Outputs

• Shaking intensity by census tract
• Casualties (Deaths and Injuries)
• Displaced households
• Number of persons requiring shelter
• Building damage/losses
• Lifeline damage/losses
• Debris generated

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Most Recent ShakeMap ScenarioM7.8 Southern San
Andreas
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Current and Planned Outreach Activities

• Website www.cisn.org

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CISN.org as an Outreach Tool

• The website is our public face and a basic tool
  for outreach. It
• Highlights our multi-organizational cooperation
• Is a gateway to EQ info from many sources
• It places California in the context of ANSS
• Provides an avenue for raising awareness of new
  real-time products
• Is a vehicle for product and outreach performance
  evaluation
• Features My CISN giving users the opportunity
  to customize the website to maximize its utility

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Homepage of CISN.org
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Special Event Page
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MyCISN
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Current and Planned Outreach Activities

• Real-Time Strong Motion Information

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Real-Time Strong Motion Information

• CGS administers CSMIP with over 1000 stations,
  700 ground response, 180 in buildings, 25 dams
  and 70 bridges
• Online access to 22 station geotechnical array
• Real-Time telemetry for strong motion instruments
  is a recent development and ongoing
• Essential for a robust ShakeMap
• Near real-time information from instrumented
  buildings basis for rapid damage assessment
• CGS has developed a building motion
  animation/visualization soon to be available
• Engineering community can learn much about damage
  from strong motion data (e.g. improve building
  codes, earthquake resistant design)

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CSMIP Seminars
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Internet Quick Reports
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ATC-54 Guidelines Now Available
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Current and Planned Outreach Activities

• Presentations, Materials, Electronic Media and
  Expos

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Materials

• Developed and distributed new brochure for CISN
  at the Quake 06 conference in SF
• CGS will soon complete a new brochure on use of
  information from CSMIP
• Still debating how best to promote use of
  ShakeMap for news reporting of EQs
• ATC 54 Guidelines are now available
• CISN had an exhibit and CISN Display was
  prominently featured at Quake 06

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Presentations

• OES lectures at CSTI, presentations at DRC
• Tsunami Planning Workshops have provided
  opportunity to promote use of CISN Display
• USGS public lecture series, news interviews, many
  other forums
• CGS Strong Motion Utilization Seminars
• Caltech Earthquake Research Affiliates, info on
  southern CA EQs
• UC Berkeley participation in many conferences,
  info on northern CA EQs

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Electronic Media

• Paged earthquake information from CISN
• ShakeMap shapefiles for GIS applications
• ShakeCast translation of ground motion to damage
  estimates
• Linkage of real-time earthquake information and
  HAZUS loss estimation
• Web-based and web-enabled data through CISN
  Display and websites

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Some Possible Next Steps

• Should revisit CISN Outreach Plan to Update
• Should conduct a survey to assess user
  satisfaction with CISN Products
• Work to completely eliminate CISN Display
  firewall issues
• Refocus the strategy for transfer of CISN Display
  (survey could help)
• Appointment of USGS person to Outreach Working
  Group