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HAZUS training opportunities include courses at FEMA's Emergency Management Institute, regional training courses, and on-line courses.

We recommend you download the HAZUS-MH Curriculum Program - FY09 slide (HAZUS_CURRICULUM_-_FY09.pdf) to help navigate through the maze of HAZUS courses. This is also a great visual to understand the requirements for meeting the HAZUS Professional Level or the HAZUS Practitioner Level.

HAZUS Professionals List

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HAZUS Training at EMI

Comprehensive Data Management
Sep 13, 2010 - Sep 16, 2010
Course Number E317
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Basic HAZUS-MH Class
Oct 11, 2010 - Oct 14, 2010
E313 Basic HAZUS
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ArcGIS for Emergency Managers
Nov 01, 2010 - Nov 04, 2010
E190 ArcGIS for Emergency Managers
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HAZUS for Flood
Jan 03, 2011 - Jan 06, 2011
E172 HAZUS for Flood
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Basic HAZUS-MH Class
Jan 17, 2011 - Jan 20, 2011
E313 Basic HAZUS
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HAZUS for Hurricane
Feb 07, 2011 - Feb 10, 2011
E170 HAZUS for Hurricane
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Application of HAZUS for Disaster Operations
Feb 14, 2011 - Feb 17, 2011
E179 Application of HAZUS for Disaster Operations
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Comprehensive Data Management for HAZUS
Feb 28, 2011 - Mar 03, 2011
E317 Comprehensive Data Management for HAZUS
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ArcGIS for Emergency Managers
Mar 14, 2011 - Mar 17, 2011
E190 ArcGIS for Emergency Managers
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HAZUS for Earthquake
Apr 25, 2011 - Apr 28, 2011
E174 HAZUS for Earthquake
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HAZUS for Flood
Jul 11, 2011 - Jul 14, 2011
E172 HAZUS for Flood
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Application of HAZUS for Risk Assessment
Sep 12, 2011 - Sep 14, 2011
E296 Application of HAZUS for Risk Assessment
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Basic HAZUS-MH Class
Sep 19, 2011 - Sep 22, 2011
E313 Basic HAZUS
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Who Should I Contact to Enroll in HAZUS Training Courses?

To enroll, download the Admission Application or contact Philip Moore at (301) 447-1248.

For further information on registration, please visit FEMA's Emergency Management Institute's Website. For information about Regional training opportunities and events, go the HAZUS Regional Training page or contact Vincent Brown by e-mail at vincent.brown@dhs.gov.

Download the HAZUS-MH Training Handout

Regional Training

Basic HAZUS-MH Class
Sep 07, 2010 - Sep 09, 2010
L313 Basic HAZUS at Valparaiso University in northern Indiana from Tuesday, September 7 to Thursday, September 9, 2010. This course is funded by IDHS and is free to all participants. However, seating is limited so you are encouraged to sign-up early if you are certain of your ability to attend. Please note that each participant is responsible for any travel related costs that they incur. Course registration can be completed by visiting The Polis Center website at http://www.polis.iupui.edu/Training/Default.aspx. Questions about course content can be directed to the instructor, Kevin Mickey, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Online Training

Eight virtual self-study courses are available for HAZUS at ESRI.
Titles for the courses are listed below and complete descriptions are below the titles.

1. Introduction to the HAZUS-MH Comprehensive Data Management System

2. HAZUS-MH Overview and Installation

3. Integrating User-Supplied Hazard Data into the HAZUS-MH Flood Model

4. HAZUS-MH Flood Model Output and Applications

5. Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH to Assess Losses from a Riverine Flood Hazard

6. Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Hurricane Loss Estimation

7. Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Earthquake Loss Estimation

8. HAZUS-MH (Multi-Hazards) for Decision Makers

HAZUS-MH Overview and Installation
This course provides an overview of the capabilities of HAZUS-MH, FEMA’s loss-estimation tool for earthquake, flood, and hurricane wind hazards. In the course, you will learn to install the HAZUS-MH software and define a study region, the area of analysis used by HAZUS-MH. You will also explore the basic types of analysis that HAZUS-MH can perform, as well as the types of information it can generate about the social and economic impacts of natural hazards.
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Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH to Assess Losses from a Riverine Flood Hazard
This course explains the process of defining a riverine flood hazard and performing a loss estimation using HAZUS-MH. While HAZUS-MH offers a wide range of options for defining a flood hazard, this course focuses on the two options that require the least amount of user input: defining a flood hazard based on a return period, and defining a flood hazard based on a stream discharge. These procedures are frequently applied by communities interested in understanding the potential social and economic impacts that might occur as a result of flooding.
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HAZUS-MH Flood Model Output and Applications
The HAZUS-MH Flood model provides users with the tools to define floods of varying magnitudes and estimate the social and economic impacts that result from such events. Loss estimations are based on impacts to the built environment and to the populations that live in the communities impacted by flooding. They account for such things as damages to buildings and their contents, losses to essential facilities, impacts on transportation and utility lifelines, and impacts on agriculture. In addition, they also address such things as debris generation and shelter requirements. This course provides an overview of the many types of output that the flood model can generate, with a focus on how this information can be effectively used by communities to better plan for and prevent losses from flood events.
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Integrating User Supplied Hazard Data into the HAZUS-MH Flood Model
This course teaches the process of integrating hazard data into HAZUS-MH to perform a more precise flood loss-estimation study than is typically possible in a basic HAZUS-MH analysis. This course discusses two of the options for integrating flood hazard data created in other modeling applications into a HAZUS-MH flood study. The first method requires the user to provide a user-defined flood boundary, digital elevation model, and information about a flood surface. The second requires the user to provide only a flood depth grid in an ESRI Grid format.

The ability to integrate flood hazard data created in other models into HAZUS-MH, where scientifically based loss estimation can be generated, is especially important to those individuals who plan to use HAZUS-MH to support flood insurance studies or support community planning goals. With the development of products generated by programs such as the FEMA Map Modernization Program, the inputs that are required to use the options described in this course are now available to many communities across the United States. The course includes an exercise that explores these techniques and that will better prepare you to conduct these types of flood loss-estimation studies within your own community.
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Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Hurricane Loss Estimation
The HAZUS-MH Hurricane Wind model provides the means to assess the losses that may occur from a hurricane. The hurricane model has the capability to assess impacts from historic as well as user-defined storms. It can also consider the impact of storms based on their probability of occurring. After completing this course, you will have an awareness of the abilities of HAZUS-MH to generate estimates of building damage estimates, shelter needs, and economic impacts from hurricane wind events. The course will conclude with a hands-on exercise that includes definition of a hurricane scenario and a review of its social and economic impacts.
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Introduction to Using HAZUS-MH for Earthquake Loss Estimation
The HAZUS-MH earthquake model considers information about building stock, economic data, geology, the location and size of potential earthquakes, and other information to estimate losses that might be incurred from an earthquake. Once the location and size of a hypothetical earthquake are identified, the model estimates the violence of the ground shaking, the number of buildings damaged, the number of casualties, the amount of damage to transportation systems, disruption to the electrical and water utilities, the number of people displaced from their homes, estimated cost of repairing projected damage, and other effects. This course concludes with a hands-on exercise which includes definition of an earthquake scenario and a review of its social and economic impacts.
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Introduction to the HAZUS-MH Comprehensive Data Management System
The HAZUS-MH Comprehensive Data Management System (CDMS) helps HAZUS-MH users generate more accurate hazard loss estimations by integrating their own data into the HAZUS-MH analysis process. In this course, you will learn the basic workflow for importing site-specific and aggregate data to update HAZUS-MH inventories. This course focuses on the process of using CDMS rather than HAZUS-MH data requirements or data preparation.
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HAZUS-MH MR4

Data:
Features schools data updated with the U.S. Department of Education data

Features transportation data updated with data from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration

Features vehicle valuations (Flood Model only) updated by Jack Faucett Associates)

In the Flood Model:
Provides a dam/levee analysis capability
Incorporates NFIP entry dates that permit the Flood model to distinguish between census blocks that are PreFIRM and those that are PostFIRM
Modifies topological data for Census Track and Census Block geometrics in the state DVDs
Provides for consistent generation of debris results
Allows digital elevation mapping for Hawaii
Corrects mapping in the Inventory tables for utilities and day time and night time vehicle count and dollar exposure
Corrects percentage values in the detailed results tables for agricultural loss
Fixes 63 bugs in all

In the Earthquake Model:
Updates the probabilistic maps with the latest version from USGS HAZUS-MH MR4

In the Hurricane Model:
Permits the creation of a study region using a hurricane track
Other Features:
Corrects the Hawaii datum used in HAZUS
Deletes BIT and (Building Inventory Tool) and InCAST (Inventory
Collection Assessment and Survey Tool), which may have been superseded by CDMS 2.5 (Comprehensive Data Management System)
Deletes the third-party model option (FLDWAV, FLDVIEW, Aloha and Marplot), but maintains the existing capability to import GIS layers from these tools
Deletes the multihazard average annualized loss assessment capability

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