The 2013 EERI Annual Meeting will be held February 12-15 at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, Washington, with the theme of Building Resilient Communities through Policy and Mitigation.
Several CREW members assisted with the program development and CREW is a supporting organization. Visit http://2013am.eeri.org/ to register and learn more about the meeting agenda.
Almost all the elementary and junior high school children of Kamaishi, a small coastal town in Iwate, managed to survive the tsunami. Many people said it was a miracle, but it wasn’t. The response capabilities they learned at school helped them to overcome a disaster that exceeded all worst-case scenarios.
See article here: http://wedge.ismedia.jp/articles/-/1334?page=1.
