Comments on: Learning Emergency Management

By: Robert Allen

Robert Allen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:00:41 +0000

Mark, I am just getting into the Emergency Management emphasis after getting my Master’s in Security Management form Webster U. Thanks for the inspiring words and I look forward to meeting you someday.

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:41:27 +0000

Mark, kudos to you for attempting to reflect a decision by the City manager you mentioned that will come back to hurt him. I think my approach would have been to appeal to his sense of career longevity; pointing out to him that it might be best to provide a buffer between him and a possible social event he might not be capable or desirous in handling. Thus, an EM might be a prudent career move!

By: Mark Warnick

Mark Warnick — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:26:07 +0000

Rich,
I couldn’t agree with you more; however the point I was making is that when I learned it I seriously doubted I would ever use it again. There is a method to the madness of learning, … Mark

By: Rich Davies

Rich Davies — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:50:50 +0000

Well done! However, in my opinion I doubt if any serious HAZUS user would claim a 5% margin of error with a specific HAZUS run and the “real world”. Things are just too dependent on the baseline data and specifics of the real earthquake. HAZUS does it pretty much like you did with paper and pencil … it uses accepted damage and injury models and starts with the FEMA provided HAZUS database and can “just” do it faster … the Sugarhouse, UT HAZUS runs also benefited from the efforts of the researchers to improve the quality of the building models and some of the damage models.