Italian scientists on trial for failing to warn before L'Aquila earthquake

Seven scientists are accused of giving "inexact, incomplete and contradictory information" about whether smaller tremors felt by L'Aquila residents in the six months before the April 6, 2009 quake in Italy should have constituted grounds for a quake warning. The defendants are accused manslaughter and of giving "inexact, incomplete and contradictory information" about whether smaller tremors felt by L'Aquila residents in the six months before the April 6, 2009 quake should have constituted grounds for a quake warning. READ MORE

Community Resilience Initiative

The Community Resilience Initiative (CRSI) was a collaborative process of the Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI) involving more than 150 practitioners and researchers charged with determining what American communities need in order to become more resilient to all hazards, and also to provide a concrete course of action to support communities in their resilience-building efforts.

CARRI recently released a report intended to provide America’s communities with a set of tools and processes that will help prepare for disasters and improve their resilience. The report, titled “Community Resilience System Initiative (CRSI) Steering Committee Final Report—a Roadmap to Increased Community Resilience,” builds on over three years of academic research, practical experience, broad collaboration with partner communities and other national stakeholders.

According to CARRI, the web-friendly process can help any community assess its capacity to withstand significant disturbances and help them create an approach to recovery. “By creating a vision for the future and establishing the necessary actions to improve overall resilience to disasters and other disturbances, this system will help people prepare for—and recover from—any challenge.”

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NIMS Implementation Behavior of United States Counties

Recently published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management ... "The Current NIMS Implementation Behavior of United States Counties"

The report concludes that NIMS may be limited in its usefulness because of the wide variation in the manner in which NIMS is currently being implemented in counties across the United States.

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This report will be discussed on the EMForum interactive discussion on Wednesday, September 14, 2011, beginning at 12:00 Noon Eastern time ... MORE INFO