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Situation • Hurricane Dorian has become a very powerful hurricane, capable of causing life threatening storm surge, extensive wind damage, heavy rain, and significant infrastructure damage to portions of Florida and the Southeast early next week into the middle of next week

Potential Impacts – Southeastern U.S. • Rainfall accumulations: 6-12 inches, isolated 18 inches across southern/central Florida and coastal sections of the Southeast U.S.; may cause life-threatening flash floods • Surf: Swells are likely to begin affecting east-facing shores of southeastern U.S. coast during the next few days; likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions

Local Preparations/Response • FL EOC: Full Activation o Governor declared a state of emergency; National Guard fully activated o Mandatory evacuations ordered for select coastal sections of Brevard County o Voluntary evacuations in effect for areas in Miami-Dade, Hendry, Martin, Osceola, and St Lucie counties o Orlando International Airport scheduled a precautionary closure for 2:00 a.m. Mon, Sept 2 • Seminole Tribe of Florida EOC: Partial Activation; Tribal Chief declared state of emergency • GA EOC: Full Activation: Governor declared a state of emergency

Federal Preparations/Response • Emergency Declaration FEMA-3419-EM-FL approved Aug 30, 2019 • NRCC: Level I, 24/7 with all LNOs and all ESFs • Region IV RRCC: Level I, 24/7 until further notice • Region IV LNOs deployed to FL and GA; Tribal LNO deploying to Seminole Tribe of Florida today • Region IV DCE Emergency Preparedness LNOs deployed to FL EOC, RIV RRCC, Homestead ARB, North Auxiliary Field, Warner Robins AFB, and Maxwell AFB • IMAT Teams deployed: o National IMAT E deployed to FL EOC o National IMAT C available o Region II IMAT demobilizing from USVI, returning to home station o Region IV IMAT-1 to FL EOC o Region IV IMAT-2 to GA EOC o Region VII IMAT deployed to Region IV RRCC o Region VIII IMAT deployed to Region IV RRCC • ISB Teams: Logistics staging teams deployed to AL, SC, GA, and NC • US&R: o Teams deployed to PR and USVI demobilized o Red IST: Relocating to Orlando, FL o 12 Task Forces, 4 Mission-Ready Packages – Water Rescue and 1 HHP activated

FEMA Sit Rep

Hurricane Dorian

Local Preparations/Response

• FL EOC at Full Activation; Governor declared a state of emergency; Emergency Declaration requested

• Seminole Tribe of Florida EOC activated; Tribal Chief declared state of emergency

• GA EOC at Full Activation; Governor declared a state of emergency

Federal Preparations/Response

• • NRCC at Level I, 24/7 with all LNOs and all ESFs
• • Region IV RWC returned to Steady State
• • Region IV RRCC at Level II, 24/7 until further notice
• • IMAT Teams deployed:
• • National IMAT East deployed to FL EOC
  • o National IMAT C demobilizing from PR, returning to home station o Region II IMAT to USVI o Region IV IMAT-1 to FL o Region IV IMAT-2 deployed to GA EOC o Region V IMAT demobilizing from PR, returning to home station o Region VII IMAT deployed to Region IV RRCC o Region VIII IMAT deployed to Region IV RRCC

• Region IV LNOs deployed to FL and GA

• ISB Teams deployed: 2 to PR, 2 to USVI, 1 to FL o 1 team from PR is re-deploying to Ft. Bragg, NC o  Both teams from USVI are re-deploying to DC Atlanta, GA • Logistics staging teams deployed to AL, SC, and GA

• US&R teams deployed to PR and USVI demobilized, returned to home station and are available

NASA: “This image shows estimated rainfall accumulations for the region affected by Hurricane Dorian over the 24 hour period of Aug.27 11:59 UTC to Aug. 28 11:59 UTC.”

“On Aug. 27 at 1:35 p.m. EDT (1735 UTC), the AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed cloud top temperatures of Tropical Storm Dorian in infrared light. AIRS found coldest cloud top temperatures (purple) of strongest thunderstorms were as cold as or colder than minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius).” Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson

Tectonic Summary

The August 29, 2019, M 6.3 earthquake near the coast of Oregon occurred as the result of strike-slip faulting along the Blanco Fracture Zone, a transform fault marking the boundary between the Pacific Plate to the southwest and the Juan de Fuca Plate to the northeast. Moment tensor solutions show faulting occurred as a result of slip on a steeply dipping fault, either from left-lateral slip on a northeast striking fault or right-lateral slip on a southeast striking fault. Given the moment tensor and orientation of the fracture zone, this event occurred on a steeply dipping, right-lateral, southeast striking fault. At this location, the Juan de Fuca Plate slides past the Pacific Plate at a rate of 49 mm a year along an azimuth of 110 degrees from north. The Juan de Fuca plate ultimately subducts beneath North America along the Cascadia subduction zone about 200 km to the east of today’s event; hence, this earthquake did not occur on the subduction zone, but rather is the result of Pacific:Juan de Fuca plate boundary interactions farther west.

The Pacific-Juan de Fuca Plate boundary offshore of northern California, Oregon, and Washington routinely host moderate size earthquakes. Within 250 km of the August 29th event, there were 21 other earthquakes of magnitude 6 and larger over the preceding 100 years. The largest of these was an M 6.9 earthquake that occurred on July 13th, 1991 that was felt throughout much of western Oregon and northern California. The 1991 event ruptured southeast of the Blanco Fracture Zone, within the Juan de Fuca Plate closer to the coasts of Oregon and northern California. One year prior to this August 29, 2019 earthquake, a similar earthquake in size, location, and mechanism, occurred on August 22, 2019 and was felt along the Oregon coast.