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2. Introduction
The Canadian Hazus User Group (usually) meets on the third Wednesday of each month to share knowledge on natural hazard risk assessment and the application of the Hazus loss estimation software in Canada. Natural Resources Canada’s National-Scale Geohazard Risk Project of the Public Safety Geoscience Program supports the forum. Today’s meeting will be facilitated by Malaika Ulmi The meeting materials are posted on

3. Agenda Meet and greet as we connect Training, resources and events
Round table
Presentation: Probabilistic Earthquake Modeling, Warnings, Response and Resilience for the Pacific Northwest (M9) – Dan Abramson
Questions and Discussion

4. Hazus Training
EMI courses at Questions to
Hazus online course flyer and handouts at
Esri online courses search for Hazus
COURSE #
COURSE TITLE
DATES
E0313
Basic Hazus
December 12-15, 2016
E0176
Hazus for Floodplain Managers
March 27-30, 2017
April 3-6, 2017
E0317
Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus
May 1-4, 2017
E0172
Hazus for Flood
June 12-15, 2017
E0170
Hazus for Hurricane
July 24-27, 2017
E0296
Application of Hazus for Risk Assessment
August 14-17, 2017
E0179
Application of Hazus for Disaster Operations
September 11-14, 2017
September

5. Resources
Order a copy of Hazus Canada, see upcoming events, download resources and meeting material, find events, ask a Hazus question, and add content
FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from
and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources
Hazus solutions page:

6. Resources
Global best practices: UN ISDR and
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction:
Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative:
Canadian Risk and Hazards Network
HazNet, the magazine of the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network:

7. Resources
National Academy of Sciences’ Koshland Museum Extreme Event Game – A game to help people understand the importance of developing connections for disaster resilience.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine “Resilient America”:
Flood Economics from The Economist’s Intelligence Unit

8. Resources
Canada’s Earthquake Risk: Macroeconomic Impacts and Systemic Financial Risk
Just In Time Disaster Training Library - source for disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery training videos.

9. Resources
Development of risk-based decision model for extreme weather events.
Canadian National Flood Guidelines Draft Document- A series of 8 handbooks being developed by NRCan.
Insurance Bureau of Canada’s Municipal Risk Assessment Tool (extreme weather)

10. Events
Call for participants to NSF workshop series on “Methods of Disaster Research: Interdisciplinary Approaches” until December 19, 2016,
Applied Technology Council webinar “Reducing the Risks of Non-Structural Earthquake Damage, January 4, 2017,
Advancing and Redefining Communities for Emergency Management, December 13-14, 2016, Washington, DC,

11. Events
The Future of Emergency Alert and Warning Systems: Research Directions, January 26 and 27, 2017, San Diego, CA, www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/meetingview.aspx?MeetingId=9012
CWRA 2017 Roundtable Climate Extremes: National Collaboration on Floods and Droughts, January 27, 2017, Ottawa, ON,
CatIQ’s Canadian Catastrophe Conference (C4), Toronto, ON, February 1-3, 2017,

12. Events
Coastal GeoTools 2017, February 6-9, 2017, Charleston, NC,
Fifth Regional Platform for the Americas, Montreal, QC, March 7-9, 2017,
Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, July 9-12, 2017, Broomfield, CO,

13. Roundtable Introduce yourself
Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest …

14. https://hazards.uw.edu/geology/m9/
Presentation:
Probabilistic Earthquake Modeling, Warnings, Response and Resilience for the Pacific Northwest (M9)
Dan Abramson

15. Wednesday, January 18, 2017 malaika.ulmi@canada.ca
Next CanHUG meeting is
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