WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When a tsunami from a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia in 2004, it killed 228,000 people. In 2011, 18,000 were killed in Japan from a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami.
To help emergency rescue and management personnel deal with such catastrophes, Washington State conducted a simulated field response operation in June.
Walt Hubbard, director of King County, Washington's Office of Emergency Management, will present "Disaster Mitigation: Lessons Learned from Cascadia Rising Exercise" at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC).
The sixth-annual event will be at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport on 13-16 October. Discounted registration is available through 9 September.
Other keynote and plenary sessions include:
GHTC 2016 will explore how technology can:
More than 260 people from 23 countries attended GHTC 2015.
GHTC (www.ieeeghtc.org) is organized by IEEE Region 6 (Western United States) and IEEE Seattle Section. Technical cosponsors include IEEE-USA, IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology, IEEE Power and Energy Society, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
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