U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio will visit the UO to lead a roundtable discussion covering earthquake preparedness and early warning systems.

The meeting will take place at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, in the HEDCO education building, Room 230T. Participants include UO geosciences professors Ray Weldon and Amanda Thomas, and UO risk services director Andre Le Duc.

The roundtable discussion will center on early warning of offshore earthquakes, especially along the Cascadia subduction zone. The UO has been part of a joint effort to build an onshore warning system and also advocates for an offshore system.

DeFazio recently introduced a bill develop an offshore warning system. He is the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Other participants will be officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Geological Survey and Oregon Department of Transportation, along with Oregon State University engineering Dean Scott Ashford, Sea Grant specialist Patrick Corcoran and geosciences professor Anne Trehu and others.

For additional details, see “DeFazio to host earthquake preparedness roundtable” in The Register-Guard.