Earthquake Summit 2025
Please join us for the 7th annual Earthquake Summit March 18, 2025 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri! This regional professional development conference will bring together hundreds of attendees to learn the latest about earthquakes in the Midwest – the risk, preparedness strategies and recovery planning. Experts from across the country will lead sessions focused on best practices in earthquake planning and response, transportation strategies, hospital and health services response, communication techniques, impacts to mines and caves, available resources for schools and local officials, and more. This event is FREE, and professional development hours are available.
Featured at the Summit will be the first public look at all-new data showing potential earthquake impacts at the local level throughout the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Using the latest analysis and an interactive database developed by the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium, projected impacts for roads, hospitals, utilities and other critical facilities, as well as injuries and fatalities, will be available for a variety of locations and magnitude levels of quakes.
Previous Years
2024 Summit Agenda and Presentations
- Agenda 2024
- Now They Tell Me! Crisis Communications
- Turkiye's Recent Earthquakes
- Pipelines, Utilities and Hazardous Chemicals
- Wicked Problem Update, the Research Continues
- Transportation Planning and Response
- A Dam Problem, Part 1
- A Dam Problem, Part 2
- Myths of the New Madrid Earthquakes
- Missouri's New Air Operations Plan
- Hospitals and Patient Movement, Part 1
- Hospitals and Patient Movement, Part 2
2023 Summit Agenda and Presentations
- Agenda 2023
- New Madrid Seismic Zone and Earthquake Hazards in the Central U.S.
- The Little River Drainage District
- Updated, A Wicked Problem, Consumer Research Helps Building the Foundation for Data Driven Earthquake Insurance Communications
- Missouri's New Field Operations Guide for Earthquake Evacuation
- New Rules for School Emergency Planning
- ShakeCast, A Roadmap to Faster Response and Recovery for Transportation Departments
- Using Your Earthquake Plan for Other Disasters
- How Lessons Learned Can Help Health Care and Beyond Prepare for Earthquake Risks
2022 Summit Agenda & Presentations
- View the full agenda
- Presentations
- Earthquake Hazards in the Central U.S.
- Joint New Madrid Seismic Zone Plan: Evacuation and Mass Care
- New Madrid Seismic Event Transportation Planning and Response Tools, Part 1
- New Madrid Seismic Event Transportation Planning and Response Tools, Part 2
- How St. Louis Community Organizations Support Earthquake Response and Recovery
- Will Your Business Survive? Apply Business Continuity Principles
- A Wicked Problem: Consumer Research Helps Build the Foundation for Data Driven Earthquake Insurance Communications
- Missouri’s SAVE Coalition: Rapid Building Evaluations after a Disaster
- Communicating Teamwork: Joint Information and Earthquake Response
- University of Missouri Extension’s Resources for Emergency Readiness
2020 Summit Agenda & Presentations
2020 Earthquake 101 Public Event
2020 Summit Agenda & Presentations
- Agenda
- Livestream
- Individual and Family Resilience in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
- Emergency Preparedness; A Business Perspective (Don Pucci)
- Emergency Preparedness; A Business Perspective (Matt Redding)
- Are Our Utilities Ready for a Major Quake? (Ken Wilmot)
- Are Our Utilities Ready for a Major Quake? (Eric Fuchs)
- Are Our Utilities Ready for a Major Quake? (Ricky King)
- School Earthquake Preparation and Post-Loss Management
- School Seismic Structural Assessment Initiative
- Including People with Disabilities in Earthquake Planning Makes Sense
- Hospital Preparedness, Response and Recovery, with Lessons Learned
- Earthquake Risk Reduction for Healthcare Facilities
- The Importance of Collaboration
2019 Summit Agenda & Presentations
- Livestream, Part 1
- Livestream, Part 2
- Livestream, Part 3
- 2019 Earthquake Summit Agenda
- The New Madrid Seismic Zone - What’s the Risk? Are We Prepared?
- Overview of Missouri & Federal Earthquake Response Plans
- Southeast Missouri Health Care Coalition Response Role
- Coalition Planning Workshop
- Safer, Stronger Smarter: A Guide to Improving School Natural Hazard Safety
- Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill
Earthquake Preparedness
Contact Information
Jeff Briggs
Earthquake Program Manager
State Emergency Management Agency
2302 Militia Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Phone: (573) 526-9232
Jeff.Briggs@sema.dps.mo.gov