Ken
(8 March
2011)
"FEMA National Level
Exercise-NLE 2011 Facts"
Hi Doves
Exercise Focus
NLE 2011 will simulate the catastrophic nature of a major earthquake in
the central United States region of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ).
The year 2011 is the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 New Madrid
earthquake, for which the NMSZ is named. NLE 2011 will be the first NLE
to simulate a natural hazard.
NLE 2011 activities will take place at command posts, emergency
operation centers and other locations to include federal facilities in
the Washington D.C. area and federal, regional, state, tribal, local
and private sector facilities in the eight member states of the Central
United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC). The eight member states of
CUSEC encompass four different FEMA regions: Alabama, Kentucky,
Mississippi, and Tennessee (FEMA Region IV); Illinois and Indiana (FEMA
Region V); Arkansas (FEMA Region VI); and Missouri (FEMA Region VII).
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