Lessons gathered from Hurricanes Helene and Milton (Oct 2024)…
Hub Captains watched and gathered lessons from the devastation in the southeastern United States. While heartbreaking and difficult to watch, it validated everything we are doing to help our communities […]
Read More »Washington’s first earthquake early warning!
“A 6.4 earthquake off Vancouver Island triggers alert in Western WA” – published in The Seattle Times on Thursday, July 11, 2024.@USGS_ShakeAlert quickly detected the M6.4 offshore EQ’s magnitude & […]
Read More »Self Help Posters now available in 13 languages
Self Help Posters were created by Hub volunteers to be used at the Hubs as a tool to help people immediately after a major disaster. In those first few days […]
Read More »Upcoming volunteer/learning opportunities!
(See calendar for full details of each event. ALL upcoming events can be found HERE!) North Capitol Hill – Hub Drill – Sunday, August 27th Volunteers needed to staff Hub […]
Read More »First Table Top scheduled for April 29
We will be holding a table top exercise on Saturday, April 29, from 9:00 am to noon. The purpose of the exercise is to test run new Universal Communications Cards […]
Read More »What a year it was – 2016 in review
Seattle Emergency Communications Hubs Activity Report 2016 Our Hub Captains and the Hubs were very busy in 2016. Here is our year end summary as we get ready for another […]
Read More »11 Hubs received “Hub in a Box” funds
More equipment in more places! Thanks to the Seattle City Council, $18,000 was set aside to purchase hub boxes and start up supplies for hubs in 2016. The Office of […]
Read More »Hubs and outreach
Lots of people learning about the hubs We attended quite a few outreach events, hosted some training, held an Open House and met a lot of new people along the […]
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