You are an emergency planner newly hired in a local emergency management agency in southwest Arizona. In reviewing the jurisdiction vulnerability analysis, you notice that your town is within 50 miles of the San Andreas Fault. You check further and discover that there were 180 moderate earthquake shocks (undamaging) that affected your town last year. The town emergency operations plan contains no mention of the earthquake threat. When you report this and point out the high level of planning in nearby California, the director hesitates. How will you go about convincing the LEMA that a planning process should begin for the earthquake threat?
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