On October 18th at 9:29AM in the morning the automatic quake alert system went off. A 4.2M tremor triggered the alert system. According to Insurance Journal: “The tremor triggered a warning from the West Coast`s ShakeAlert system, which detects the start of a quake and sends alerts to smartphones in areas expected to experience shaking.”…Read More
UCERF3 simply stands for the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, and the third verion of it. According to the Southern California Earthquake Center UCERF3 “provides authoritative estimates of the magnitude, location, and likelihood of earthquake fault rupture throughout the state.” UCERF3 was created by a working group in 2014 and implemented in 2015. UCERF3 is…Read More
The Red Cross has an interesting site that explores earthquake safety. Being one of the premier disaster relief groups in the United States, we thought reviewing and restating Earthquake Safety from the Red Cross would be a useful idea. The ideas presented in this blog post are pulled more or less right off the Red…Read More
FEMA has an interesting simple document about how to protect your home from an Earthquake. It is basic and mostly a low cost solution. It is certainly not a be all end all document. But – For many its a great place to start for Earthquake Safety. The Federal Emergerncy Management Agency states: “there are…Read More