2010 3rd Quart er 
Congratulations! 
HAZUS User of the Year! 
Congratulations to Philip McCormick, the 3rd Quarter 2010 HAZUS User of the 
Year. Mr. McCormick is the Emergency Operations Coordinator for the City of 
Riverside, CA. He is responsible for coordinating city recovery efforts following 
major emergencies; for maintaining the city emergency resource database, city 
hazard and risk management mapping system, emergency operations center computer and 
communications systems; and serves as a liaison to the department of defense, local school districts, 
and local colleges and universities. 
Mr. McCormick’s experience with HAZUS began in 1998; he was one of the program’s original users. 
He has focused his work on updating HAZUS data sets for improved earthquake analysis for the City 
of Riverside. He has updated all soil and liquefaction data for improved earthquake analysis. The 
data sets that he has updated include seventy percent of commercial buildings in the city, the location 
of hazardous material sites, all un-reinforced masonry buildings, and electrical poles and electrical 
vaults. In addition he has updated the data sets for medical facilities, religious facilities, all schools 
and day care providers, veterinary clinics, and animal care centers. All of these data sets have been 
sent to the City GIS Department with earthquake scenario maps for response planning. 
Mr. McCormick also completed a detailed hazard and risk management mapping project consistent 
with national standards which was used as a model by FEMA during the November 2008 Golden 
Guardian earthquake exercise. The HAZUS research and mapping completed for the November 
2008 California state-wide Earthquake Exercise is considered best-practice and serves as the base 
modeling for all risk and consequence modeling for the City of Riverside. A follow up project to this is 
the development of scenario based playbooks currently under development using U.S. Geological 
Survey and Caltech earthquake models on the three major earthquake fault systems surrounding the 
City of Riverside. These scenario based playbooks will enable City emergency management staff 
and incident commanders to rapidly call up anticipated casualty and damage data based upon a 
suite of modeled scenarios using various epicenter and hypocenter locations. This important project 
will seek to shorten the reaction time to major earthquakes and will further aid in the deployment of 
critical emergency resources following a major earthquake. 
Mr. McCormick is recognized as one of the leading experts in California in using HAZUS and is an 
active member of the Southern California HAZUS User Group. He is known among his peers for 
consistently giving 110% effort and for striving for nothing less than perfection in every task or 
project he is charged with. It is with great pleasure that FEMA awards Mr. McCormick with the HAZS 
User of the Year award. 
2010 3rd Quart er 
Congratulations! 
HAZUS User of the Year! 
Congratulations to Philip McCormick, the 3rd Quarter 2010 HAZUS User of the 
Year. Mr. McCormick is the Emergency Operations Coordinator for the City of 
Riverside, CA. He is responsible for coordinating city recovery efforts following 
major emergencies; for maintaining the city emergency resource database, city 
hazard and risk management mapping system, emergency operations center computer and 
communications systems; and serves as a liaison to the department of defense, local school districts, 
and local colleges and universities. 
Mr. McCormick’s experience with HAZUS began in 1998; he was one of the program’s original users. 
He has focused his work on updating HAZUS data sets for improved earthquake analysis for the City 
of Riverside. He has updated all soil and liquefaction data for improved earthquake analysis. The 
data sets that he has updated include seventy percent of commercial buildings in the city, the location 
of hazardous material sites, all un-reinforced masonry buildings, and electrical poles and electrical 
vaults. In addition he has updated the data sets for medical facilities, religious facilities, all schools 
and day care providers, veterinary clinics, and animal care centers. All of these data sets have been 
sent to the City GIS Department with earthquake scenario maps for response planning. 
Mr. McCormick also completed a detailed hazard and risk management mapping project consistent 
with national standards which was used as a model by FEMA during the November 2008 Golden 
Guardian earthquake exercise. The HAZUS research and mapping completed for the November 
2008 California state-wide Earthquake Exercise is considered best-practice and serves as the base 
modeling for all risk and consequence modeling for the City of Riverside. A follow up project to this is 
the development of scenario based playbooks currently under development using U.S. Geological 
Survey and Caltech earthquake models on the three major earthquake fault systems surrounding the 
City of Riverside. These scenario based playbooks will enable City emergency management staff 
and incident commanders to rapidly call up anticipated casualty and damage data based upon a 
suite of modeled scenarios using various epicenter and hypocenter locations. This important project 
will seek to shorten the reaction time to major earthquakes and will further aid in the deployment of 
critical emergency resources following a major earthquake. 
Mr. McCormick is recognized as one of the leading experts in California in using HAZUS and is an 
active member of the Southern California HAZUS User Group. He is known among his peers for 
consistently giving 110% effort and for striving for nothing less than perfection in every task or 
project he is charged with. It is with great pleasure that FEMA awards Mr. McCormick with the HAZS 
User of the Year award.