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Quake Up!
Quake Up! is first and foremost preparing the individual, family and neighborhoods of Washington County to better manage in an emergency and/or a disaster situation.  
NorthWest Prepared is focused in a coordinated, comprehensive approach to prepare and strengthen our resilience from an emergency or disaster and make possible our ability to recover on every level – personal, neighborhoods, businesses, cities, counties, states and region wide.
This is the ‘Bounce Back Faster From Disaster’ slogan we have adopted.
Quake Up! NW
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Who We Are

Stan Houseman
QUAKE UP! NorthWest - Prepared
Quake Up! NW

We, in the Pacific Northwest Region recognize the need and benefits to being emergency prepared on all levels which is the basis and foundation of our participants.

The advocacy for Resiliency Plan includes seismologists, geologists, businesses, State and federal agencies and various other agencies and supporters/voices to this plan. 
The primary goal is to broaden the current scope and efforts to make it possible for the entire region to "bounce back faster" for the purpose of benefitting everyone to stay in place and resume working and living here without losing a large population due to massive deaths, little to no commerce and work possibilities, or lack of infrastructure/utilities to support the people and businesses.
We are determined to take efforts to reduce the damage caused by natural hazards like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones, through an ethic of prevention.

Case in point is the San Francisco, 1906 Earthquake and fire devastated the city and moved the people and commerce to Los Angeles or Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, ten years later, 25% of the population has not returned, verses the recent Chile or Tokyo earthquakes with minimal loss in life and business disruption due to the efforts made by improved.building codes, infrastructure, etc.
We intend to work with our local Washington Commissioners, City Mayors, Oregon State legislators, FEMA. This includes Washington State as well.
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Our emphasis is to work with government decision and policy makers from local, state and federal, along with businesses, small and large, and communities in preparedness and mitigation efforts. 
We would appreciate working with you to schedule a briefing and other outreach.

Original Quake Up! Team
Stan Houseman . Project Manager 
Sig Unander . . . . Media/Presentations 
Helen Larson . . . Hosting/Information 
Luis Nava . . . . . . Youth/Cultural Engagement 
Peggy Harris . . .  Community Partnerships 
Pat Wolter . . . . . .Speaker Introductions/MC

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Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission

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2012-2013 Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (OSSPAC) Members
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CHAIR: Kent Yu - Structural Engineer Stakeholder, Degenkolb Engineers
VICE CHAIR: Jay Wilson - Public Member, Clackamas County Emergency Management
Deborah Boone - Representative, Legislative Assembly
Greg Ek-Collins - Oregon Department of Transportation
Carl Farrington - Multifamily Housing Stakeholder
Fred Girod - Senator, Legislative Assembly
David Holton - American Red Cross*
Francisco Ianni - American Red Cross
Ian Madin - Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Michael Mumaw - Local Government Stakeholder, Emergency Manager, City of Beaverton Jay Raskin - Public Member, Ecola Architects
Althea Rizzo - Oregon Emergency Management
Richard Rogers - Building Codes Division
Stephen Lucker - Department of Land Conservation & Development
Susan Steward
– Building Owners Stakeholder, BOMA
Mark Tyler - Schools Stakeholder
Bryce Ward
– Banking Stakeholder, ECONorthwest
Stan Watters
– Utilities Stakeholder, Port of Portland
Gerry Williams - Public Member, Construction & Engineering Management Research, Inc.

Bev Hall – OSSPAC Secretary, Oregon Emergency Management
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*Retired from the commission in June 2012. 

Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW)

Excerpted from the:
Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW)
CREW is a non-profit coalition of business people, emergency managers, scientists, engineers, civic leaders, and government officials who are working together to reduce the effects of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.
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Executive Board
President: John Schelling, Washington Emergency Management Division
Vice President: Michael Kubler, Emergency Management, Providence Health & Services, Portland, OR Past President: Cale Ash, Degenkolb Engineers
Secretary: Teron Moore, Emergency Management, British Columbia
Treasurer: Timothy Walsh, State of Washington Department of Natural Resources
Executive Director: Heidi Kandathil

Board of Directors
Steven Bibby, Security and Emergency Services, BC Housing Josh Bruce, Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience Kathryn Forge, Public Safety Canada
Jere High, Oregon State Public Health Division

Andre LeDuc, University of Oregon
Charlie Macaulay, Global Risk Consultants
Ines Pearce, Pearce Global Partners
Althea Rizzo, Oregon Emergency Management
Bill Steele, University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Yumei Wang, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Supporting members
Tamra Biasco, FEMA, Region X
Craig Weaver, U.S. Geological Survey Joan Gomberg, U.S. Geological Survey Nate Wood, U.S. Geological Survey 


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