January 23rd Media Workshop

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On January 23, 2003, the Office of Emergency Services and the USGS hosted a workshop for members of the media in the San Francisco Bay Area to introduce the CISN and to increase awareness and promote use of ShakeMap among media organizations in coverage of significant earthquakes. The workshop featured presentations and facilitated discussion.

Press Release

OES issued this press release announcing the workshop.

Workshop Handouts

• Workshop Agenda
• A Broadcaster's Guide to Reporting Earthquake Intensity
• Recommended Web sites

Video of the presentations and Q/A session

The workshop presentations and discussions were videotaped and are available for viewing over the Web. Enjoy!

• Video feed of the presentations
• Video feed of the Q/A

If the links above do not work, start Windows Media Player, select "OPEN" or "OPEN URL" from the File menu, and type the following address for the presentations

• mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/ehz/20030123.wmv

and this address for the Q/A session

• mms://video.wr.usgs.gov/ehz/20030123_QA.wmv

Email notification of earthquakes and ShakeMaps

Sign up for notification of earthquakes in California as well as notification that a ShakeMap has been generated.

• California

As a follow-up to the workshop, the OES Information and Public Affairs staff plans to produce a short training video for use by news organizations in orienting their reporters and technical staff on the use of ShakeMap in covering earthquakes.

For additional information about the ShakeMap for the news media workshop or about use of ShakeMap, please contact us.