Earthquake Information Dissemination Workshop

1. Earthquake Information Dissemination Workshop May 26, 2006 ITR – RESCUE Natural Hazards Center, U.C. Boulder

2. Goals of this Workshop • Progress on earthquake alert and warning systems since Trinet study (2002). • Ongoing RESCUE research in this area • Focusing on dissemination to organizations, specifically schools and school districts • Key factors/challenges in building real-time earthquake alert systems • Earthquake engineering, social science, information technology, emergency mgmt. policy and practice

3. Overview of the RESCUE Project Funded through NSF through its ITR Program & Research Infrastructure Programs

4. Goals of the RESCUE Project Transforming the ability to collect, analyze, share and disseminate information within the responding organizations and the public On-site 1st Responders Mobile Command & Control EOC Response Network

5. Key Observation Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time can result in dramatically better response • Response • Effectiveness • lives & property saved • damage prevented • cascades avoided • Quality of • Decisions • first responders • consequence planners • public Quality & Timeliness of Information • Situational • Awareness • incidences • resources • victims • needs

6. RESCUE Research • Social & Disaster Science • context, model & understanding • of process, organizational structure, needs • Engineering & Transportation • validation platform for role of IT research • Security, Privacy& Trust • Cross cutting issue at every level • Information Centric Computing • enhanced situational awareness • Networking & Computing systems • Computing, communication, & storage systems under extreme situations • Social Science • context and understanding of crisis domain • Information Technology • infrastructure & tools to enhance flow of information & situational awareness • Engineering • platform for realization, real-world physical constraints that help test, and validate IT solutions

7. RESCUE Project Structure Risk Communication System Robust Networking Solution Policy Engine Real-time Alert System Smart Reconnaissance System Enterprise Service Bus Integrated Information Dashboard Internet-based Loss Estimation System FUTURE TESTBEDS CHAMPAIGN CAMAS GLQ TRANSPORTATION Policy-driven Information Sharing Privacy Situation Awareness Robust Networking Customized Dissemination INFORMATION ANALYSIS INFORMATION SHARING INFORMATION COLLECTION RESCUE Thrust Areas INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Integrative Artifacts Testbeds RESCUE Research Projects

8. Customized Dissemination in the Large • Grand Challenge • Next generation warning systems that customize risk communications based on various factors resulting in appropriate level of response (not under or over response) • Variability in warning times, characteristics of recipient populations, diversity of delivery mechanisms (social and technological), size of impacted population • Research Contributions • Understanding dissemination context in specific scenarios • Two case studies at different ends of warning time spectrum and geographical context • IT for customization • Accuracy of targeting, prioritization, location, language, and social contexts • IT for delivery • Scalability, reliability, message urgency, heterogeneity of delivery mechanisms • End-User Deliverables • A system for real-time seismic alert to schools in California • Collaboration with State of California, OES; School Broadcasting Company • Builds on RAPID: a flash dissemination system developed in collaboration with LA city • Longer term risk communications system for informing public through all phases of response • A peer-based portal for hurricanes • An emergency information portal for City of Ontario

9. RESCUE Testbeds NBC Building CAMAS/Responsphere, UCI (incident-level response) Transportation Simulator (regional response) CAMAS: A instrumented multisensor smartspace at UCI implementing & monitoring response activities Transportation: Simulation of a large geographically dispersed disaster and its impact on transportation Different testbeds model information flow conditions under diverse types of crisis situations Champaign Testbed (data sharing) Gas Lamp Quarter, SD (robust infrastructure) Champaign: City Emergency Operations Center to serve as a testbed for Data Sharing Applications GLQ : Infrastructure to test robustness of network deployments via live experiments in real setting

10. RESCUE Research Team • Privacy • Security • Trust • Natural Hazards Center • Social Science • Data Management • Security and Trust • Disaster Analysis • Earthquake Engineering • GIS • Civil Engineering • Data Analysis & Mining • Data Management • Middleware & Distributed Systems • Civil Engineering • Transportation Engineering • Computer Vision • Networking • Multimodal Speech • Transporation Modeling • Urban Planning • Privacy • Social Science • Transportation Science • Wireless

11. Rescue/Responsphere Partners

12. RESCUE Govt. Partners • California Governer’s Office • Counties of Los Angeles, Orange • Cities of Irvine, Los Angeles, Ontario, San Diego • Space and Naval Warfare • San Diego Police Department • UC Irvine Environment Health and Safety

13. Agenda