{"id":237,"date":"2011-08-25T21:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-08-25T21:26:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:26:37","slug":"wake-up-to-the-earthquake-risk-will-the-5-8-event-that-rattled-dc-really-result-in-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/wake-up-to-the-earthquake-risk-will-the-5-8-event-that-rattled-dc-really-result-in-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake-Up to the Earthquake Risk: Will The 5.8 event that rattled DC really result in preparedness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked at the federal level and state level on planning efforts  for a New Madrid earthquake, and following on the heels of NLE-11, I was  fascinated to read the stories about the havoc the 5.8 earthquake  caused: people running through the Pentagon screaming evacuate evacuate, schools in DC closed, damage to national monuments, etc.<\/p>\n<p>A New Madrid event, predicted to be around a 7.7, will release almost 1,000 times more energy and I have briefed a number of agencies on the catastrophic results of such an event.  Keep this in mind if you read  any NLE-11 After Action reports that indicate we are anywhere near prepared for a New Madrid. I think the poor performance we saw August  23rd speaks volumes on how poorly prepared we are even in out nation&#8217;s  capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/West-Coast-Humor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-238\" title=\"West Coast Humor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/West-Coast-Humor-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked at the federal level and state level on planning efforts for a New Madrid earthquake, and following on the heels of NLE-11, I was fascinated to read the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[11,28,33,36,56,68,81,84],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-best-practices","tag-disaster-response","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-management","tag-incident-response","tag-nle-11","tag-preparedness","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}