Earthquake and Tsunami Pre-disaster Mitigation: Preliminary Recommendations

This report was generated at the request of the Hatfield Marine Science Center to be used to plan for facilities improvements.This is a summary report of preliminary recommendations for the Oregon State\ud University: Hatfield Marine Science Center, located in Newport, Lincoln County, Oregon\ud as this institution prepares to embark on the development of an earthquake and tsunami\ud pre-disaster mitigation plan. This report describes our preliminary recommendations,\ud lessons from the past, benefits of a plan, discusses FEMA’s four planning phases and\ud includes attached appendix information.\ud We recommend that Hatfield develop plans in accordance with Federal Emergency\ud Management Agency (FEMA)’s Disaster Resistant Universities (DRU) and the National\ud Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s TsunamiReady communities.\ud Furthermore, this summary report may also be used in conjunction with the recent\ud evaluations for OSU-Hatfield in the report completed by Howard Pierpont titled “Oregon\ud State University: Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, Oregon”, herein referred to\ud as the Pierpont report. A copy of this report, which includes an OSU-Hatfield site\ud location map, is included in Appendix A