Dr. Althea Rizzo

Geological Hazards Program Coordinator

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Meeting ID: 893 3193 0831

Passcode: 072364

For more information call Sylvia: 503-257-0144

Ready or Not: Cascadia Preparedness. We know that someday Oregon will have a large damaging earthquake, either from the Cascadia Subduction zone or a crustal fault near Portland.

 Dr. Althea Rizzo, Geological Hazards Program Coordinator at the Oregon office of Emergency Management will present information on the current state of preparedness and mitigation efforts to ready Oregon for a subduction zone earthquake. New tools like the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system will help Oregon become more resilient and able to recover more quickly after a large earthquake.

 Dr. Althea Rizzo joined Oregon Emergency Management in 2008 as the Geologic Hazards Program Coordinator after completing a one year National Weather Service-funded program as Tsunami Coordinator for the City of Lincoln City. She is a member of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program and serves as the co-chair of the Warning Subcommittee. She is a member of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup and is the co-chair of the Education and Mitigation Subcommittee. She has successfully implemented outreach programs for seismic hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Dr. Rizzo has been a frequent instructor and lecturer on hazard mitigation, risk reduction and outreach program design and implementation.