Californians must get better prepared before the next big earthquake, and practice how to protect ourselves when it happens. The purpose of the ShakeOut is to help people and organizations do both.
The boxes below provide instructions for how homeowners associations, neighborhood councils, and other community groups can plan their drill, tips for getting prepared, and suggestions for sharing the ShakeOut with others. With your participation, this may be the largest earthquake drill ever!
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For the 2008 ShakeOut, over 98% of the senior residents of the Vallecity Mobile Home Park took cover for 3 minutes and then placed OK signs in their windows for volunteer responders to check. Several residents pretended to be injured, and the responders followed procedures in place for such emergencies. The residents participate in a similar drill every six months!
Today:
Between now and October 18:
October 18, 10:18 a.m.:
What we do now, before the earthquake, will determine what our lives will be like after.