Earthquake in Arkansas tonight

[DH]

Just random info for those interested.

The FEMA National Level Exercise regarding the New Madrid Eartquake Zone is 16-20 May. CAP is a player but unclear of the extent of actual deployments yet. Some resources are expected to be deployed, others will likely be heavily involved in table top exercises. This is a national level exercise that envolves 4 distinct FEMA regions and 4 CAP regions. http://www.shakeout.org/downloads/nle_factsheet.pdf, http://www.ready.gov/nle2011/index.html. I believe Indianna is holding another seperate exercise, don't remember the date.

The Great Central US Shakeout is 28 April.  It is more of a public awarness exercise than anything else, however some CAP Regions may use this and other dates for pre-NLE exercises.

I have been told to expect a fairly heavy amount of communications involvement with the various exercises.

Best wishes,
David Hester, ALWG/DC

[John Bryan]

I don't know about Indiana Wing CAP.....but the State of Indiana is taking part in NLE 2011.