The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR) invite you to join us for a webinar series that will continue connecting people from different backgrounds and Tribes, communities, federal agencies, Tribal organizations and state and local entities to address various environmental health and environmental justice issues of mutual concern across all regions as well as issues specific to individual regions as we did in our physical summits.

The webinars will be held on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm ET (12pm PT, 1pm MT, 2pm CT).

Earthquake safety and earthquake warning

Earthquakes can pose a major threat to tribes across the US. This webinar will explore the causes of earthquakes and the effects of earthquake shaking on communities, including downstream hazards like tsunamis, landslides, and liquefaction. What can we do to prepare for quakes before they happen? How can the new ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system be used to alert tribal communities and secure utilities, hospitals, and schools?

Objectives: Earthquake hazards (on the west coast specifically or in the US at large, depending on the audience interest); How tribes can begin to approach comprehensive earthquake safety; Proactive steps to get access to the publicly funded ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system.

Speaker: Gabriel Lotto