{"id":401104,"date":"2010-03-07T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/great-southern-california-shakeout-receives-prestigious-award-40478\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:34:26","slug":"great-southern-california-shakeout-receives-prestigious-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/401104","title":{"rendered":"Great Southern California ShakeOut Receives Prestigious Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b><font face=\"Georgia\"><font size=\"4\"><font color=\"#000099\">Great Southern California ShakeOut Receives Prestigious Award&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b><br \/>\n<b><font face=\"Georgia\"><font size=\"4\"><font color=\"#000099\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b>Scientists, emergency planners, businesses and organizations who worked on communication efforts for the 2008 Great Southern California ShakeOut earthquake drill received a prestigious Federal award this week. Our office helped spearhead this important effort to learn more about earthquake response and help get the public prepared for the big one.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Eugene M. Shoemaker Awards for Communications Excellence are given annually to recognize extraordinary effectiveness in communicating complex scientific concepts and discoveries into words and pictures that capture the interest and imagination of the American  <br \/>\npublic. <\/p>\n<p>The 2009 award in the multiple-product category was awarded to The Great Southern California ShakeOut Campaign. Working with an initial  <br \/>\ncommittee of 12 people, the group superbly planned and executed a  multimedia communication approach resulting in the drill being the largest of its kind in U.S. history, with more than 5 million people participating. <\/p>\n<p>The scenario, written by USGS earthquake experts, called for a  magnitude 7.8 earthquake to hit Southern California along the San Andreas fault. The drill was so successful it has become an annual event, with 6.9 million people participating in 2009. The next Southern California ShakeOut will take  <br \/>\nplace Oct. 21, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><i>To learn more about ShakeOut, visit <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ShakeOut.org\" ><i><font color=\"#0000ff\">www.ShakeOut.org<\/font><\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><br \/>\nCouncilman Greig Smith&#8217;s Office E-Mail Letter<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Southern California ShakeOut Receives Prestigious Award&#8230; Scientists, emergency planners, businesses and organizations who worked on communication efforts for the 2008 Great Southern California ShakeOut earthquake drill received a prestigious Federal award this week. Our office helped spearhead this important effort to learn more about earthquake response and help get the public prepared for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}