1. Tips for WebEx interaction: – Raise your virtual hand to ask a question. – Post your coffee cup to let us know when you are away. – Use the chat window to interact throughout the session. Send messages to all participants. – Participate actively. – Do NOT put the line on hold – Have fun! *6 Mute your line, so participants cannot hear you. Repeat to cancel your request *7 Unmute your line, so that participants can hear you. Welcome! We will begin shortly… After introducing yourself, please put your microphone and telephone on mute 1

2. The Canadian Hazus User Group 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 (mulmi@nrcan.gc.ca). The meeting materials are posted on www.hazuscanada.ca.www.hazuscanada.ca Introduction 2

3. Meet and greet as we connect Training, resources and events Round table Presentation: Earthquake Risk Reduction Planning - From Knowledge to Action– Murray Journeay, Geological Survey of Canada, and Fiona Dercole, District of North Vancouver Questions and Discussion Agenda 3

4. EMI courses https://www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training and at www.training.fema.gov. Updated virtual and EMI course flyer at http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/105722https://www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training www.training.fema.gov Esri online courses http://training.esri.com/ search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Training 4 COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLE DATES E0313Basic Hazus-MHDecember 7-10, 2015 E0176Hazus-MH for Floodplain ManagersDecember 14-17, 2015 E0317Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus-MHJanuary 4-7, 2016 E0296Application of Hazus-MH for Risk AssessmentMarch 21-24, 2016 E0313Basic Hazus-MHApril 11-14, 2016 E0172Hazus-MH for FloodJune 20-23, 2016

5. 5 Resources www.hazuscanada.ca: Order a copy of Hazus Canada 2.1, see upcoming events, download and access resources including the Hazus HotZone newsletter, get past and future meeting material, find events, ask a Hazus question, and add content www.hazuscanada.ca FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from hazus@arcaspicio.com www.usehazus.com/canadianhug and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources www.usehazus.com/canadianhug Hazus solutions page: www.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-pagewww.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page

6. 6 Resources ICLR publications and Friday Forums www.iclr.orgwww.iclr.org Global best practices: www.preventionweb.net/english and UN ISDR www.unisdr.orgwww.preventionweb.net/englishwww.unisdr.org HazNet, the magazine of the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network: www.haznet.ca www.haznet.ca The Natural Hazards Center Library is a collection of hazards resources that focus on how society copes with natural hazards and catastrophic events, for both researchers and practitioners. http://hazlib.colorado.edu/ http://hazlib.colorado.edu/ Mitigation Best Practices – A FEMA portfolio: www.fema.gov/mitigation-best-practices-portfolio www.fema.gov/mitigation-best-practices-portfolio

7. 7 Resources Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities: www.100resilientcities.org www.100resilientcities.org ICLR Quick Response Grant Program: www.iclr.org/quickresponse.html www.iclr.org/quickresponse.html Best Practices in Local Mitigation from US: www.mitigationguide.org www.mitigationguide.org Community Resilience Planning Guide for Building and Infrastructure Systems www.nist.gov/el/resilience/www.nist.gov/el/resilience/

8. 8 Resources 2015 World Disaster Report, by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, focusing on local actors : www.reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/1293600- World-Disasters-Report-2015_en.pdf www.reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/1293600- World-Disasters-Report-2015_en.pdf National Institute of Building Sciences archived webinars. Topics include Incentivizing Pre-Disaster Mitigation, Disasters and Infrastructure, NIST Resilience Initiatives, etc. www.nibs.org/?page=mmc_webinars www.nibs.org/?page=mmc_webinars BC branch of the Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Conference was November 18-19, 2015, and presentations will be up at www.cwrabc.ca/conferencewww.cwrabc.ca/conference

9. 9 Events ATC webinar on FEMA P-154, Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards, December 2, 2015, www.atcouncil.org/events www.atcouncil.org/events Hazus Users Conference, Atlanta, GA, December 9-11, 2015, www.hazusconference.com www.hazusconference.com Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, San Francisco, California, December 10-12, 2015 www.atc-sei.org www.atc-sei.org Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland, January 27-29, 2016, www.unisdr.org/partners/academia-research/conference/2016/ www.unisdr.org/partners/academia-research/conference/2016/

10. 10 Events World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, ON, June 7-8, 2016, www.wcdm.orgwww.wcdm.org Association of State Floodplain Managers Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 19-24, 2016, www.asfpmconference.org www.asfpmconference.org 41 st Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, CO, July 10-13, 2016, www.colorado.edu/hazards/workshop/current.html www.colorado.edu/hazards/workshop/current.html

11. Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest … Roundtable 11

12. 12 Presentation: Earthquake Risk Reduction Planning – From Knowledge to Action– Murray Journeay, NRCan and Fiona Dercole, District of North Vancouver

13. Next CanHUG meeting is December 16, 2015 See you then! Please email if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. malaika.ulmi@nrcan.gc.ca Thank you 13