Jerry Quinn, Disaster Badger, who has more disaster recovery knowledge in his pinkie than I have in my head, shared a table with the timing results, amount and type of funding provided for more recent, I'll call them "minor," earthquakes. In an earlier email, he pointed out that in Puerto Rico's recent event, damages were within a fairly limited geographic area of the commonwealth that was impacted.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
