National Level Exercise Starts with Simulated Catastrophic Earthquake

FEMA National Level Exercise 2011 at the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, May 2011.

At about 10:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, it was reported that a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, impacting many central states. Although the reports were part of National Level Exercise (NLE) 2011, thousands of first responders and emergency management representatives – at all levels of government – activated their emerg

National Level Exercise Starts with Simulated Catastrophic Earthquake