 So again, my name is Brad Alexander chief of media relations with the governor's office of emergency services today we're going to give you a briefing on the earthquake that happened this morning in Napa and Speaking today will be director Mark Giller aducci Colonel Bob Spano from the California National Guard and John Parrish from the California geological survey I'll turn it over to our director okay, good afternoon everyone and thanks for coming in I want to talk a little bit about the earthquake that occurred today in the Napa area first of all Let me say that really our hearts and our thoughts go out to those who have been impacted by this Earthquake, it's it's you know these things happen in California But you know we never wanted to happen and those that have been impacted today are our thoughts and prayers and will continue to do everything We can to support them as they deal with this particular situation Want to talk a little bit about this this morning. I just recently returned from meeting with the City of Napa and the County of Napa and doing an overflight of the region that where the earthquake had occurred And I want to kind of give you a little bit of a briefing on what I saw during that Overflight as you can imagine the kind of damage that you would see with the earthquake of this magnitude a lot of regional impact But I have to say that as much as the as the earthquake was large And had a widespread impact The damage is not as bad as it could have been We we are certainly seeing a lot of damage to single-family residences Predominantly homes that may have been knocked off their foundation or had a crack foundation or have lost the chimney That have come down and further damage to home Broken glass Those kinds of activities we've seen some fires in homes predominantly in mobile homes all the fires have been extinguished at this point and we've seen a significant amount of things like water main breaks Some power outages in the area roughly now affecting about 20 to 25,000 people and road damage Throughout the region both on state roads and on county roads most of these this damage is either some buckling in the road or cracks that may have occurred in the pavement as a result of the earthquake or on the on ramps or off ramps of bridges where there was some subsidence and Some liquefaction and there was a little bit of a damage getting onto the the bridges our Department of Transportation Caltrans and Hire patrol as well as the county departments of roads have checked all of the bridges in the area and all of the bridges Are safe and secure and there are no damage to the bridges Probably the most significant damage we've seen is in the downtown portion of the city of Napa a lot of those buildings there are older structures and We've seen damage to commercial buildings that are predominantly unreinforced masonry type buildings where we've seen either partial collapse or significant damage to those those structures and Most of the downtown area of Napa is been cordoned off as crews go through and do assessments of those buildings both From a structural engineering standpoint as well as from a health and safety standpoint roughly about something like 90 to 100 homes have been red tagged at this point That means those are homes that are not Safe to go into but further assessments are being done in the area And the state has gone into support of the county and the city with structural engineers to accelerate that process As well in the city of Napa I'm sorry in the city of Aleo. We've seen quite a bit of damage downtown again old unreinforced masonry type structures in in one case. We have a three to five story multi-family residential Slash commercial structure that has a sense of damage and is compromised That that building is going through an assessment right now as well the region has Utilized significant mutual aid from throughout northern California fire and rescue law enforcement and emergency medical and all of the local and state Coordination centers are operational and coordinating with each other so that we can provide rapid Assistants where necessary. I could tell you that right now things are sort of stabilizing a little bit There have been some injuries. There have been no known fatalities at this point that we know of and Most of those mutual aid assets are continuing to support Both city Napa and city of Aleo and the counties as appropriate Our next steps as we move forward will be to in the coming days will be to continue with the Damage assessment so we can get a very good handle on what the damage looks like and what the cost is So that we could potentially apply for federal disaster assistance I have been in contact with the US FEMA Administrator in Washington, DC as well as the regional administrator here in Oakland FEMA has been a great partner and has been right there from the beginning supporting us through this process In fact, they have a whole team that is embedded here at the state operations center with us all state agencies are Activated and are operating here in the state operations center or in the field 100% support doing mostly building assessments, but also providing any other immediate life support Necessary I've had discussions with utilities particularly PG&E in the area through our utilities association and They're working diligently with the significant amount of Resources in the area to support getting the power back on or any gas leaks that may be Occuring in the area shut down and make it safe Lastly the the the water problem in the course exasperated by the drought Is that we we know we there are a number of water breaks and the the city cities of Vallejo and Napa as well as as the county are working closely with the Department of Water Resources and other agencies to ensure that we do have potable water for the people in the community and Places like hospitals and restaurants and other things like that. So That's a sustainable situation if there's any problem with with water Or water delivery. We will support the local authorities appropriately with additional water support right now There has been no there is no unmet needs that we know of from the communities and we're working very closely with organizations like the Red Cross and Some non-governmental organizations to support the counties with their evacuation centers And we'll know really the numbers of evacuating those in the evacuation centers tonight As they they start to populate those centers Because they can't get into their homes So with that I'll turn it over to the other speakers right now and then we'll come back up for questions in a minute next is going to be Colonel Bob Spano from the National Guard Good afternoon, and I'd just like to start off by saying on behalf of all the members of the California National Guard Our thoughts and prayers also go out to all those that in the affected area Immediately upon this earthquake hitting here this morning The California National Guard was able to provide an aircraft for immediate overflight I accompanied director Gillard Ducci amongst other staff members And we went down to the affected area and were able to do an overflight of the affected area as well as a ground assessment Director Gillard Ducci went into detail on that the California National Guard also immediately Upon this notification was able to call up the Northern California forces Send them to their armories for posturing and onward movement should the call it be required Some of that included the ability to provide right from the very beginning the ability to provide emergency communications emergency operation support Medical support search and rescue support water purification should that that capability be required as well as logistic support and security and as it stands today the California National Guard is still postured to do that and We are ready to support our state and local partners and any other requests that should come through and I will be followed now by John Parrish Good afternoon everybody. I'm John Parrish. I'm state geologist and chief of the California Geological Survey As you know this morning at 320 we had a magnitude 6.1 earthquake that occurred Probably on the West Napa fault up near Napa About 623 We had compiled a lot of information and we started putting it out on the website So there's a lot of technical information regarding that fault for engineers and Practitioners to take off the website there shortly after that we started putting together field teams and CGS has seven geologists out on the site since about six o'clock this morning And we are coordinating our efforts with the US Geological Survey who have sent some teams up from Menlo Park We are transmitting the data that we are finding and Bringing that back into the operations center here as well as to both the survey centers As you will probably see there Excuse me a number of aftershocks that are occurring from this fault or from this earthquake We think that there's probably over 50 or 60 aftershocks now the largest one being a magnitude 3.6 We do not expect that there will be much larger aftershocks But we do think the aftershocks will continue for several weeks and they will rapidly decrease in their magnitude And their importance Early this morning there was a message that went out saying that there was a 54% chance of a large earthquake occurring That is correct for the first hour on that It rapidly diminishes in the probabilities of there being a large earthquake and we feel it Unlikely now that there will be a large follow-up earthquake to this one This is a good time to remind everyone that we live in earthquake country None of us are immune for this You all in Napa all know that you need to resupply your earthquake kits You need to be cautious of the structures that you go into when we have these aftershocks They are occurring in an area where the buildings have already been damaged and weakened by the main shock and therefore They are much more susceptible to collapse or other falling down During these aftershocks, so please if you think a building looks shaky Do not go into that building without having an engineering report and a survey of that structure Thank you Okay, we'll be taking questions now if there are any from the media Hearing none. I won't thank you everyone for Well, I would just say that we have been working diligently on Implementing an earthquake early warning program throughout the state. There are some pilot projects that have been been working on in Berkeley and down in Southern California And I think the one that you probably heard about in the news was one that announced from Berkeley that they had been able to get a notice within 10 seconds That the earthquake was going to occur that wasn't put out Broadly or widely through the public because the system is not fully in place yet but it does show that the system does have Validity and Will be utilized as we move forward in the development of the rest of the program Well, we're actually Close to getting it complete here in California We're still working on the numbers with regards to the overall cost, but other countries we have met with Japan and Mexico Particularly our neighboring countries where they use an earthquake early warning system And we've taken a lot of the data that they provided as they've developed theirs and we're incorporating that into our system But we're we really are building a much more advanced system because of the the kind of topography and demographics California is the way and that it's designed its size and complexity has to be built out a little bit differently So we're working on that and we're still looking at that two-year time frame to getting that that system in place Absolutely, I mean I think that once this system goes in the place It's gonna have an opportunity to let people know depending on where you're at closest to the fault or so Anywhere from a few seconds up to maybe 90 seconds of warning and that has to be tied with a public education Program or what to do when you get that warning Duck cover and hold getting under something heavy so and something non-structural falling down doesn't doesn't injure you if you're a business or Some sort of a manufacturer you could do something like have automatic systems that could shut off your manufacturing lines or shut the gas lines off Automatically, so there's both a life safety and an economic benefit from having this system in place Yeah, I think we do have a handle on what's happening and that you know probably wasn't till Midday where we got a good good sense of the fact the fires have been put out There's not more fires that power was starting to be restored when when we started we had close to 70,000 without power We're now around around 20,000 The reports coming in from local government started to subside We knowing that local government was getting a handle on There their needs at the local level and then the overflight meeting with them personally gave me a sense that This was while it was bad It wasn't as bad as it could be and it was very manageable from a regional perspective Well, naturally, it's the geology that determines how good or bad a hazard tends to be and in this particular area Even though this was a strong earthquake. It's officially Classified as a strong earthquake the geology of the area is pretty much soft muds and That tended to dampen the surface Shaking in the surface waves that went through the area and with that lack of ground motion we got less shaking onto the structures and Had more of a confined damage area to the Napa American Canyon area with little damage going beyond that We have reports of it being felt as far north as Ukaya and as far south as Salinas Along the central coast and it certainly was felt up here in Sacramento I was met number of our my colleagues indicated that they were they were woken up by by the shaking here in Sacramento I also want to note that many of the folks that were responding to this at the at the local level and both Solano and Napa County most of those responders Those those employees are responding their houses are either damaged or destroyed and so that but they're still out there responding and I Was very very impressed with that today at that commitment that they're they're dealing with this whole thing While their homes are they know their homes are in in kind of shambles so Everybody's really come together on this and I got to say the this really falls into the way we do things in California It's very well coordinated. It's consistent with our plans and we rolled it out efficiently and effectively But always in support of the the people who are impacted by the event And that's that's really where our focus will continue to be as the days go on is making sure that any unmet needs Get met and that individuals that are impacted by by this event are Addressed accordingly any other questions. What's been the biggest struggle? I think the probably the biggest struggle is just is really just been you know initially Like any time after a quake like this. There's always like what I call a dark period powers out Communications is out and it takes a little time to get a good good situational awareness as well I the question earlier Had had contacts is because gave us by midday We got a better sense of really what was happening You think the earthquake happened at 320 in the morning and it took roughly a half a day to really kind of get our hands around The complexity of the event so I think that's probably been the biggest struggle so far outside of that really the Achilles heel of any disaster is is always the long-term recovery and That that's an area that we're all going to continue to have to come together and work to meet additional and new challenges to help that part of the state recover so that we can get back up online and and The economy recovers and people's lives get back to normal Okay, thank you very much for coming