Saturday, March 23, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Storage Areas for Earthquake Supplies
FEMA through Ready.gov has the following recommendations of where to store your earthquake supplies:
(http://www.ready.gov/kit-storage-locations)
(http://www.ready.gov/kit-storage-locations)
Monday, March 11, 2013
80th Anniversary of Long Beach Earthquake -- 33 quakes Hit on Saturday
Someone sent me a text following our very successful Get Ready Long Beach workshop this past Saturday remarking that "you are good. You have an earthquake preparedness workshop and then there was an earthquake in Southern California. How'd you do it?"
That is true. Following our workshop almost 33 quakes were registered in Southern California by the US Geological Service. But this is not uncommon in Southern California which is why we need to get prepared. It isn't a matter of if but when.
Below is an excerpt from USGS about the Long Beach earthquake which hit on March 10, 1933 at 5:54 pm:
March
10, 1933 at 5:55pm a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck on the
Newport-Inglewood fault. Shocks similar in magnitude and intensity to this
event have occurred in this area in the past - notably July 28, 1769; December
8, 1812; and July 11, 1855.
This earthquake caused serious damage to weak masonry structures
on land fill from Los Angeles south to Laguna Beach. Property damage was
estimated at $40 million, and 115 people were killed.
Severe property damage occurred at Compton, Long Beach, and
other towns in the area. Most of the spectacular damage was due to land fill,
or deep water-soaked alluvium or sand, and to badly designed buildings. Minor
disturbances of ground water, secondary cracks in the ground, and slight earth
slumps occurred, but surface faulting was not observed. Along the shore between
Long Beach and Newport Beach, the settling or lateral movement of road fills
across marshy land caused much damage to the concrete highway surfaces and to
approaches to highway bridges.
At Compton, almost every building in a three-block radius on
unconsolidated material and land fill was destroyed. At Long Beach, buildings
collapsed, houses were pushed from foundations, walls were knocked down, and
tanks and chimneys fell through roofs. Damage to school buildings, which were
among the structures most commonly and severely damaged by this earthquake, led
to the State Legislature passing the Field Act, which now regulates
building-construction practices in California.
The earthquake was felt almost everywhere in the 10 southern
counties of California and at some points farther to the northwest and north in
the Coast Range, the San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra Nevada, and the Owens
Valley. It also was reported in northern Baja California. A sharp foreshock
occurred near Huntington Beach on March 9, and many aftershocks occurred
through March 16. For several years, minor aftershocks continued to occur, most
often centering near the two ends of the disturbed segment of the
Newport-Inglewood fault.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Earthquake Hits San Diego -- Are You Ready Long Beach?
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| Earthquake (Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) |
Click on the link to read about the latest earthquake nearby. Smaller quakes have hit the area earlier.
Folks, important that Long Beach get ready for an earthquake -- and not just focusing on replacing a City Hall. We need to make certain we have equipment and emergency personnel that can respond if we are hit by a large earthquake.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
KCET Host Val Zavala Joins Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske for Ready Long Beach
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| Val Zavala |
KCET Host Val Zavala joins Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske on
March 9th, 9am until 2 pm at the Ready Long Beach public forum on how to get
ready for the next big earthquake. Zavala is featured on the KCET Special Bracing
for a Quake and appears on the popular public affairs program SoCal Connected.
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| 1933 Long Beach Earthquake |
Ready Long Beach will be held at the El Dorado Community
Center, 2800 N. Studebaker.
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| Clock in downtown Long Beach which stopped at exact time of earthquake in 1933. |
Councilwoman Schipske will present a historic look at the
1933 Long Beach earthquake followed by experts from USGS, FEMA, CAEMA, Long
Beach Fire Department, CERT and American Red Cross who will discuss current
information on how to prepare to survive a major earthquake. The event is open
to the public. Lunch will be provided and then residents are encouraged to work
with representatives of the local American Red Cross in outlining how they can
prepare their own neighborhoods.
Ready Long Beach is a project of 5th District Councilwoman
Gerrie Schipske.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Earthquake Detection Needed Says Experts
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| Cracked highway near Long Beach, 1933 (Photo credit: California Watch) |
In a Los Angeles Times article, it was pointed out that the alert could give other communities precious seconds of notice that would allow metro and trains to be stopped to prevent derailment.
For more information on the proposed system click here.
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