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If your responsibilities include: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Contingency Planning, or other areas related to Emergency Management, then CRMC-ACP is your place for networking and professional growth.

President's Notes | Quarter 1 2018

Thank you for being a member of the Colorado Rocky Mountain Chapter (CRMC) of the Association of Continuity Professionals (ACP). Dedicated members like you are helping move our profession forward. Our chapter is the perfect forum for providing local chapter members with information, education, and networking opportunities.  

Here are the highlights of our first quarter 2018 activities:
  • Our Monthly Chapter Meetings provided updates on chapter activities and great guest speakers on business-related topics. FEMA presented “Cascading Events,” Russ Laughlin presented “Adaptive Business Continuity – A New Approach,”  and the NREL (National Renewal Energy Laboratory) team presented “Energy Grid Evolution.”  
  • At the March Cyber Security Summit we hosted a booth, distributed ACP materials, and met with attendees to recruit new members and sponsors.
  • Progress toward Expanded Technology Opportunities includes our CRMC-ACP LinkedIn site, an updated Facebook page, and investments in website upgrades to view past presentations and more. Stay tuned for information on our May meeting to be hosted as a webcast and onsite at AT&T. 
  • To promote Awareness of Industry Programs, our website has announced the PMI Symposium held on Friday April 20 in Denver and a Natural Hazards Center 2018 Workshop to be held July 8-11. Search our website regularly for upcoming meetings and events.

- Janice Deverell, Chapter President

June Chapter Meeting | Friday, June 15

Save the Date for our next chapter meeting on Friday, June 15. Check back soon more details on this upcoming event! 

ACP Chapter Meeting
US Geological Service National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC)
​April 20, 2018

​Over 25 ACP members and guests attended another great program highlighting a national service that is Colorado based. In April we met at the USGS NEIC in Golden for a tour and discussion presented by speaker Harvey Benz. For more information on the facility and its purpose, click here.

Here are a few highlights:
  • The NEIC works 24/7 365 days a year to detect and locate over 25,000 earthquakes every year
  • At all times, the NEIC has 21 analysts on duty
  • Since 2004, the center has responded to 17 earthquakes over 8.0 magnitude
  • Tsunami monitoring, warnings, responses, and other communications are the responsibility of the US National Weather Service
  • 2,000 seismographic stations around the globe share data with the NEIC
  • Notices of events are published within 15 minutes, and within 20 minutes the team is in full response mode
  • The public seeks information primarily from the NEIC website, and site traffic soars after an event anywhere in the world
  • The NEIC communications office assembles after any major event, and that team sends initial reports and updates with more detailed information to a distribution list of over 250 leaders, agencies, and groups including the military
  • The best predictors of earthquake probability are the National Hazard Maps, also accessed through the NEIC website