Emergency management practitioners, including Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members, understand the importance of building individual and community preparedness for and resilience to a wide variety of hazards, including earthquakes. Being ShakeAlert Ready can save lives!
ShakeAlert Ready CERT training resources—developed by emergency managers, CERT members, earthquake early warning scientists, and professional communicators—are designed to be modular to suit local CERTs and the amount of time available for training. All resources have a primary objective—to teach people how to be prepared for and respond safely when they feel shaking or get an alert that can offer seconds of warning to take a protective action.
CERT members are important public safety ambassadors who are well-positioned to offer potentially life-saving information about ShakeAlert to others in their communities, because seconds matter
ShakeAlert® Ready CERT Training Resources
Participant Training Manual
Essentials Course
Full Course
Instructor Guide
Participant Training Manual
The Participant Training Manual is the companion to all ShakeAlert Ready CERT training—both the shorter ShakeAlert Ready CERT Essentials Course and the full ShakeAlert Ready CERT Course. The easy-to-navigate layout enables trainees to understand key concepts and usable take-aways, such as:
What the ShakeAlert EEW System is, how it works, and why it matters for public safety.
Basic science behind ShakeAlert-powered alerts and how they appear on phones, apps, computers, and among automated systems.
How to get alerts on your cell phone and how to safely protect yourself in different environments and situations if you feel shaking or get an alert.
The ShakeAlert Ready CERT Essentials Course can be completed in about 15 minutes. In addition to a brief description of the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System, instruction focuses on how to get alerts on your cell phone and the recommended protective actions to take in a variety of environments and situations if you feel shaking or get an alert.
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The ShakeAlert Ready CERT Full Course is about an hour-long training that offers a more in-depth look at the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) System and the science behind earthquakes, how alerts are generated and appear, how to get alerts, and how to safely respond to shaking or alerts in a variety of environments and situations … and more! Practice drills are a built-in feature of this longer training.
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The ShakeAlert CERT training Instructor Guide is designed so any CERT trainer can confidently lead the shorter “Essentials” course or the longer “Full” course.
For more information about ShakeAlert Ready CERT, contact:
Robert-Michael de Groot, PhD USGS Coordinator for Communication, Education, Outreach, and Technical Engagement ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System rdegroot@usgs.gov or by phone at 626-372-3262
