FEMA Earthquake Mitigation Activities Dashboard Now Available

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently released its National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) dashboard to provide the public with an overview of how grant money is spent. The activities detailed in the dashboard support local earthquake safety, mitigation and resilience activities.

The FEMA NEHRP State Assistance Grant Program makes funding available through annual, non-competitive grants for individual states and territories. It also offers competitive grants to non-profit organizations and institutions of higher education. The purpose is to support the establishment of earthquake hazards reduction programs and the implementation of earthquake safety, mitigation and resilience activities at the regional, state and local level.

The data detailed in the dashboard will be useful for the public to learn more about the earthquake mitigation activities completed over the country in the last several years and to assist state earthquake program managers with ideas as they respond to the Individual State Earthquake Assistance (ISEA) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

As a participant under Region 6, the FEMA dashboard disclosed that Oklahoma was awarded a grant of $55,577 during 2021 to increase earthquake awareness and education. Arkansas received a total of $44,928 for 2021 over three separate grants to prepare inventories and conduct seismic safety inspections of critical structures and lifelines; increase earthquake awareness and education; and encourage the development of multi-state groups that support local earthquake safety and other eligible activities. In 2021, Missouri received a total of $49,617 over four separate grants to provide Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) for school buildings; ShakeOut earthquake drill outreach; critical infrastructure assessment and inventory in WebEOC; and an earthquake insurance symposium.

The FEMA dashboard can be found here.