Date and time: Wednesday, May 14th, 10:00 a.m – 1:00 p.m.
Please carefully review the following documents to understand the purpose of the exercise, what was seen during the exercise, and how to members actively participated.
- Joining the Clearinghouse Team
- Clearinghouse SpotOnResponse User’s Guide
- How to provide information to share
- Clearinghouse Technology Relationships
Exercise Scenario
The scenario for the spring 2014 OES State-Level exercise was a M9 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. A large Cascadia earthquake resulted in shaking and tsunami inundation that impacted California, Washington, Oregon and beyond, including British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii. Situational awareness and rapid hazard assessment are essential to response and recovery efforts. This scenario caused severe damage locally from ground shaking, and the resulting tsunami impacted an even wider area so researchers, scientists, and our partners travelled throughout the affected region. e.g. we work with the USGS and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, organizations that respond to earthquakes globally in addition to earthquakes in CA. For anyone interested in damaging consequences of the earthquake in CA, they can contact the CA Earthquake Clearinghouse and we can assist them by providing data and helping to coordinate field activities/access.
How to Participate
There were a number of ways members participated in, or observed, the Clearinghouse component of the Cal OES Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami exercise and that will be used in future exercises.
1. Become a member of the California Earthquake Clearinghouse
If you have not yet already done so, visit the Clearinghouse website and sign up. You will receive information and updates about all Clearinghouse preparedness and response activitieshttp://www.
2. View On-line
The California Earthquake Clearinghouse invited members to observe the multi-agency, public-private 2014 Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Exercise by watching Earthquake TV. You could also tune in to hear the information sharing action narrated live, ask questions, and hear featured discussions with many of the Clearinghouse partners about sharing information through XchangeCore and the applications they are using to develop, share, and analyze earthquake information.
Webex participation was available for May 14, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Pacific
- Go to: https://www.webex.com/login/
attend-a-meeting - Enter meeting number: 747737497
- Meeting password: XchangeCore2014
- Teleconference: 1-855-462-5367
- Advance Set-up: WebEx will automatically set up Meeting Manager for Windows the first time you join a meeting. To save time, you can setup prior to the meeting and test your browser by clicking here.
3. Participate virtually from your home or office
Review Joining the Clearinghouse Team and Clearinghouse SpotOnResponse User’s Guide. You will find directions to access the Clearinghouse field data collection tool SpotOnResponse https://app.spotonresponse.
and to learn how to contribute observations virtually and see information about the scenario earthquake being shared in real-time.
4. Visit a Clearinghouse location
For the May 2014 Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Exercise there was a Clearinghouse location in both the Eureka Area and the Bay Area.
Eureka Area – Clearinghouse partner Cascadia Geosciences will be hosted a Eureka Clearinghouse at College of the Redwoods. Members were able to stop in to the Clearinghouse location between 9:30 and 1:00 to meet, and coordinate with, earthquake and tsunami field teams http://www.tsu.cascadiageo.
- College of the Redwoods
- 7351 Tompkins Hill Rd
- Eureka, CA 95501
- http://www.tsu.cascadiageo.
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Bay Area – Clearinghouse partner EERI hosted a Bay Area Clearinghouse location from 10:00 to 1:00. EERI members tested out EERI field data collection tools and protocols and they invite you to stop by to learn about EERI earthquake efforts in California through the Clearinghouse.
- EERI Office
- 499 14th St # 200
- Oakland, CA 94612
- (510) 451-0905
- https://goo.gl/maps/I066W
How to View Exercise Data
Review Participating in the Cascadia exercise with various software applications to learn more. See which data can be viewed in various platforms in the table below.
Application |
Participation |
Data Exchange |
SpotOnResponse | Two-Way Interactive Create and Exchange | Incidents, Observations, GIS |
WebEOC | Two-Way Interactive Create and Exchange | Incidents |
ArcGIS Online with Keystone Connector | Two-Way Interactive Create and Exchange | Incident, GIS |
ArcGIS Online Webmap | Observer View Only | Incidents, Observations, GIS |
ESRI Flex Viewer | Observer View Only | Incidents, Observations, GIS |
Google Earth | Observer View Only | Incidents, Observations, GIS |
Clearinghouse Website | Observer View Only | Incidents |