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California has established a Tsunami Policy Working Group to facilitate development of policy recommendations for tsunami hazard mitigation. The Tsunami Policy Working Group brings together government and industry specialists from diverse fields including tsunami, seismic, and flood hazards, local and regional planning, structural engineering, natural hazard policy, and coastal engineering. The group is acting on findings from two parallel efforts: The USGS SAFRR Tsunami Scenario project, a comprehensive impact analysis of a large credible tsunami originating from an M 9.1 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands Subduction Zone striking California’s coastline, and the State’s Tsunami Preparedness and Hazard Mitigation Program. The unique dual-track approach provides a comprehensive assessment of vulnerability and risk within which the policy group can identify gaps and issues in current tsunami hazard mitigation and risk reduction, make recommendations that will help eliminate these impediments, and provide advice that will assist development and implementation of effective tsunami hazard risk communication products to improve community resiliency.
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Members of the California Tsunami Policy Working Group are: James Barnts – Director, Crescent City Public Works, Mary Beth Broeren – Planning Manager, Huntington Beach Department of Planning, Lesley Ewing – Senior Coastal Engineer, California Coastal Commission, Laurie Johnson (Co-Chair) – Urban Planner, Laurie Johnson Consulting + Research, Ray Lenaburg – Chief, Risk Analysis Branch, FEMA Region IX, Robert Olson – Emergency Management/Public Policy Consultant, Robert Olson Associates, Inc., Ricardo Pineta – Chief, Floodplain Management Branch, DWR, Charles Real (Co-Chair) – Manager, Seismic Hazard Zonation, California Geological Survey, Rune Storesund – Consulting Engineer, Storesund Consulting/ASCE local Chapter President, Patti Sutch – Executive Director, Western States Seismic Policy Council, Ken Topping – Urban Planner, Topping Associates International/Lecturer, California Polytechnic State University, Brian Tucker – Seismologist, President, Geohazards International. Operation of the working group is supported by a National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program grant from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration.
We thank Melanie Perron and Lauren Prehoda from the California Department of Conservation, Office of Government and Environmental Affairs for their assistance. We also thank Rick Wilson and Tim McCrink, California Geological Survey, and Anne Wein and John Haines, U.S. Geological Survey for their valuable review and comments.
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Real, C.R., Johnson, L., Jones, L.M., Ross, S. (2014). Improving Tsunami Resiliency: California’s Tsunami Policy Working Group. In: Kontar, Y., Santiago-Fandiño, V., Takahashi, T. (eds) Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7269-4_21
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