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I’m going to assume it’s okay.
Okay. So my name is Steve Hickman.

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I’m the director of the
Earthquake Science Center.

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And welcome to Menlo Park.
And welcome to the 17th annual

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USGS Northern California
Earthquake Hazards Workshop.

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The goal of this workshop, of course,
is to share the latest work that

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we’ve done related to earthquake
hazards and science and monitoring

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and risk mitigation activities in
the northern California area,

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communicate with our colleagues,
so that we can develop

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state-of-the-art earthquake hazard
products for northern California.

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This has been an eventful year,
as I hardly need to tell you all.

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We’ve had 6.4 magnitude and 7.1
magnitude earthquakes in Ridgecrest,

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California, which you’ll be hearing
about during this workshop.

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We also had the 30th anniversary of the
6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.

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It coincided with rollout of the public
alerting for ShakeAlert early warning

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system, which you’ll be hearing about.
And now we’ve had a series of

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damaging earthquakes in Puerto Rico,
which are ongoing and have

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consumed a lot of public concern
and of course attention from

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the engineering and response
and scientific communities.

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I do represent the Earthquake
Science Center, and we have about

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150 scientists, technicians,
and administration people here –

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Menlo Park and Moffett Field, which
is just about 10 miles south of here.

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We also have an office in Seattle
and in Pasadena, California.

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If you wander the halls around here,
you’ll notice things may seem

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a little bit empty.
It’s because most of our staff has

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already moved to our new offices
at Moffett Field in Mountain View.

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And, in about two to three years
from now, everyone from the USGS

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will be there. We will have
vacated this site, and we’ll all

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be down there at Moffett Field.
So, in a couple years, maybe three

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years, Northern California Workshop
will be there as it was in 2017.

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This move to Moffett has
been a great thing for us.

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A lot of collaborations
with NASA.

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Bringing all the USGS people into one
building – one office – has been great.

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We actually communicate.
It’s surprising how hard it is to

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communicate with your colleagues
when they’re one building away.

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I want to say the turnout for this
workshop has been really nice –

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spectacular. We have
150 people signed up.

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We have representatives from
the U.S. Geological Survey;

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from a number of universities;
from geologic engineering

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and risk management companies;
from water, power, and energy

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agencies; from the Coast Guard;
Department of Health and

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Human Services; and also disaster
and technical – disaster response

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and technical organizations
from the Bay Area.

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So it’s really nice to
have this crowd here.

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I really want to thank you
for showing up.

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Earthquake hazards were never more
important in northern California

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and the Bay Area than they are now.
We feel earthquakes all the time.

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It reminds us we live in earthquake
country. And thank you for being here.

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And I’m going to turn it over to
Keith Knudsen, who is the

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deputy science center director
and coordinator for

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Northern California
Earthquake Hazards Program.

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[Applause]

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- Is that for me?

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Thanks, Steve.

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So, as Steve mentioned,
today I’m wearing the hat –

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my hat of coordinator for
northern California for the

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Earthquake Hazards
Program of the USGS.

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And, in addition to the goal of
this meeting that Steve described,

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which is to get together and
share our research, one of the things

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I’m really focusing on –
where are the holes in the research?

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What are the outstanding
research questions?

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Part of my role as a coordinator
is to guide future research,

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both internally and externally.
So we’re going to have discussions

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along those lines tomorrow afternoon.
And I hope that all of you feel free

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to come up and offer your
suggestions and to make comments

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and ask questions during
that part of the session.

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So I’m going to go over a few logistics.
I’ll start with a safety moment.

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So I used to do this by saying, so we
all feel shaking, what do we do?

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But I think I’m going to
change that and say,

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so everyone’s phone
goes off at the same time.

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What do we do?

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Drop, cover, and hold on.
Right.

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And so we’ll drop, cover, and hold on.
And then, if we need to evacuate

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the building, there’s a door
there with stairs downstairs.

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There’s a door here.
I think there’s a door behind this.

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And we’ll all convene in the
grassy area right outside. Okay?

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- [inaudible]
[laughter]

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- Well, you’ll just have to
grab coffee on the way out.

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The bathrooms are to
the right around the corner.

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And, if they’re full,
you can go downstairs.

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There’s another set of
bathrooms downstairs.

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We have food today, and when you
registered for the meeting, we’re asking

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$10 for snacks for both days, and
then lunch today is pizza, I think.

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And tomorrow is Mediterranean.
And if you signed up –

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and only if you’ve signed up
and paid your $10 for lunch,

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you can join us and
participate in lunch.

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We’ll have poster sessions and lots
of time to visit and see posters,

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and they’re in the room right –
you go through the doors –

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start down the hallway and take
your first right, in the big room

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on your left there. Please, if you
brought posters, hang them soon.

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The Menlo Park Fire Department
has a fire truck parked out in front.

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So, when you tweet your photo in
the fire truck – with the fire truck,

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please be sure to mention
what a great meeting this is.

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Authors, please – in order to maintain
the sanity of the organizers and the

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session chairs, make sure your talks
are loaded well before – talks are

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loaded to this computer here.
We’re using this computer.

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We’re not plugging in other computers.
Make sure they’re loaded well

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before your talk. And we’re going to –
we’re hoping to – as long as the

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technology works, we’re going to
record these talks and post them

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on our seminar website.
So I’ll be hopefully remembering

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to ask each presenter
whether they’re okay with that.

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And the last thing for authors.
You should know that there

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are reporters – there’s at least
one reporter in the room.

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Whether that changes what
you say, that’s up to you.

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And the last thing I’d like
to do is recognize the

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organizing committee
for this meeting.

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So, Sarah Minson, who will
come up here is next, is lead.

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She provides a lot of the brainpower,
and especially the energy, so thanks,

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Sarah. And then I’ll read the
names of the rest of the people.

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Susan Garcia, Shane Detweiler,
Jessica Murray, Belle Philibosian,

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Austin Elliott, Alex Grant,
David Schwartz, Annemarie Baltay,

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Tom Hanks,
and Scott Haefner.

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So maybe we can start
by thanking all of them.

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[Applause]

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Okay. And, Sarah.

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- Hello. And we’re only two minutes
behind schedule already. Woo hoo!

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Okay, so I’m just going to very quickly
walk you through what you will

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be seeing over the next two days.
We are going to start with

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a 30th anniversary of Loma Prieta.
And I know what you’re thinking.

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Wasn’t Loma Prieta in 1989?
Wasn’t the 30th anniversary in 2019?

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But we did a quantitative analysis,
and we determined that October 2019

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is closer to January 2020
than it is to January 2019.

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So, 30th anniversary of Loma Prieta,
followed by looking at the Ridgecrest

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sequence, which Steve was talking
about as one of the many exciting

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things that happened this year.
Especially asking what we –

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what the implications are of
such a complex faulting sequence

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for earthquake hazards
in northern California.

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We’ll do lightning
talks and posters.

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And another one of the very exciting
things that happened this year is

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ShakeAlert, the earthquake early
warning system, went live in California.

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Woo hoo! So we are also going to
look at the rollout and what exciting

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developments are happening
in earthquake early warning.

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That will take us to the end of the day.
Everyone go home. Sleep. Come back.

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Then tomorrow morning, we are going
to talk about liquefaction, which is

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a very important hazard in northern
California, which has not been

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discussed for a few years in
this workshop, so we’re going to

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try and bring that back.
And then, sadly, this year

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we lost Paul Spudich, so we’re
going to have a little get-together

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celebrating his life and career.
And then finally, we are going to

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have a mini-workshop
inside the workshop.

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It is the Russian nesting doll
approach to workshop design.

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We’re going to be looking at the known
unknowns of earthquake hazards,

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broken down into what we don’t know
about seismic sources, what we

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don’t know about shaking, and
what we don’t know about risk.

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And, by talking at five times
normal speed, I have gotten us

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back to almost the right
time to start. Woo hoo!

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[Applause]

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So, let’s get things started with the
30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta

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earthquake, and our moderator is
going to be Carol Prentice. Woo hoo!