Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Contents
Why should I care?
• Southern California earthquakes and faults
• Future earthquakes
• Tsunami hazards and other hazards
• One plausible big one
• Recovering from a big one
What should I do?
• The seven steps to earthquake safety
• STEP 1: Identify hazards
• STEP 2: Create a plan
• STEP 3: Prepare kits
• STEP 4: Identify building weaknesses
• STEP 5: Drop, cover, and hold on
• STEP 6: Check for injuries
• STEP 7: Follow your plan
What should I know?
• Earthquakes and faults
• Locating and measuring earthquakes
• Earthquake shaking
• Information available after earthquakes
• Web resources
• Contents
Why should I care?
• Southern California earthquakes and faults
• Future earthquakes
• Tsunami hazards and other hazards
• One plausible big one
• Recovering from a big one
What should I do?
• The seven steps to earthquake safety
• STEP 1: Identify hazards
• STEP 2: Create a plan
• STEP 3: Prepare kits
• STEP 4: Identify building weaknesses
• STEP 5: Drop, cover, and hold on
• STEP 6: Check for injuries
• STEP 7: Follow your plan
What should I know?
• Earthquakes and faults
• Locating and measuring earthquakes
• Earthquake shaking
• Information available after earthquakes
• Web resources
resources
Answers for many of your questions, online versions of this handbook in multiple languages, the Seven Steps to an Earthquake Resilient Workplace and other supplemental documents, are all available at:

Why should I care?
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- California Earthquake Forecast:
https://www.scec.org/ucerf/ - California Geological Survey
- California Earthquake Forecast:
__ Seismic Shaking Hazard Maps: https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/Pages/PSHA/shaking-assessment.aspx
__ Landslide and Liquefaction Maps for Southern California: https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/geologichazards/
- The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/catalog/sclegacy/
- Historic Earthquakes in Southern California clickable map:
https://scedc.caltech.edu/earthquake/significant.html/ - Recent Earthquakes in Southern California: https://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/

What should I do?
- Earthquake Country Alliance: www.earthquakecountry.org, www.ShakeOut.org, www.earthquakecountry.org/dropcoverholdon/, www.terremotos.org
- American Red Cross: www.redcross.org
- California Emergency Management Agency: https://www.caloes.ca.gov/
- California Earthquake Authority: www.earthquakeauthority.com
- California Seismic Safety Commission:
https://ssc.ca.gov/ - Emergency Survival Program (ESP): Emergency Survival Guide
- Federal Emergency Management Agency: www.fema.gov
- “Step 1” in greater detail: www.quakeinfo.org

What should I know?
- United States Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program: earthquake.usgs.gov
- California Geological Survey: https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs
- Southern California Earthquake Center: www.scec.org
- Southern California Earthquake Data Center: https://scedc.caltech.edu/
- Southern California clickable fault map: https://scedc.caltech.edu/significant/
- Southern California ShakeMaps: www.cisn.org/shakemap
- Did You Feel It? – report it!: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/
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