Oversight

Earthquake Preparedness: What the United States can Learn from the 2010 Chilean and Haitian Earthquakes

Date: September 30, 2010

Time: 10:30am

Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building SD-342

Member Statements

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AR)

Associate Administrator, Office of Response and Recovery

Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance

U.S. Agency for International Development

Director, Committee for Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency (March-August 2010), Reconstruction Committee (since August 2010)

Chilean Ministry of Interior

Executive Director

Central United States Earthquake Consortium

Director, Western Emergency Management Services

Dewberry

Professor and Associate Chair, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology