Numerous advancements in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief tools and technologies were successfully utilized during the Haiti Earthquake Response, Mexicali Earthquake, and the Gulf Oil Spill Response. Many of these tools are low-cost or free to the public.

Exercise24 (X24) is a two-day international collaborative multidisciplinary exploration of these capabilities that support communication, logistics coordination, and response to a significant seismic event that generates an off shore oil spill, tsunami, displaced communities requiring shelter, damage to critical infrastructure inland, and environmental impact. The idea is to see how national and international authorities, organizations, citizens would react to such an event in Southern California. Exercise 24 has been organized by San Diego State University’s Immersive Visualization Center, (Viz Center).

X24 is scheduled for September 24-25, 2010.

THIS IS AN EXERCISE: NOT AN ACTUAL EVENT