ECA Bay Area Winter 2025 Online Workshop

This workshop explored earthquake and tsunami hazards, including insights from the December 5 Cape Mendocino earthquake and tsunami warning and how communities responded. The workshop also included information about recent Bay Area earthquakes, Marin County’s earthquake and tsunami hazards and ECA’s 2025 activities and ways to get involved in advancing earthquake and tsunami preparedness.

REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE (ZOOM)

There is no cost to attend.

AGENDA

Dena Gunning (Central County Fire Department), Jeff Airth (SFO Emergency Management), and Ray Bonilla (Elevance Health and City of Hayward)
Welcome and Introductions – ECA Bay Area Coordinating Committee Chairs

Todd Becker (Seismic Hazards Branch, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services) and Jay Patton (Seismic Hazards Program, Tsunami Unit, California Geological Survey)

Overview of Tsunami Hazards, including a review of the December 5, 2024 Cape Mendocino Earthquake and Tsunami Warning

Dr. Curtis Baden (Research Geophysicist, United States Geological Survey)
Quake Break – Recent Bay Area Earthquakes

Steven Torrence (Director of Emergency Management, Office of Emergency Management, Marin County Fire Department)
Marin County Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards, including response to the December 5 Tsunami Warning

Mark Benthien (ECA Executive Director | Statewide California Earthquake Center at USC)
ECA 2025 Activities & Opportunities

Announcements by Participants

WORKSHOP PRESENTATION SLIDES, SURVEY, etc.

Workshop Video Recording (Youtube; also view below)

Workshop Presentation Slides (PDF; some content shared live by presenters may not be not included)

Brief survey (Please complete if you attended, if you registered but could not then attend, or if you watched the video of the workshop)

QUESTIONS: info@earthquakecountry.org