Emergency supplies and preparedness is all fine and wonderful. However more than likely you will not be at home when a quake hits. You do want to leave a building that you are in, if there is warning. You do want to not be in your car driving, again if there is warning.

"3 day supply"

or in other words.... a 72 Hour Emergency Survival Kit! wink wink!

that's why you should keep a 72 hour emergency survival kit in your car....or even at work (if you can)...

That's not true. You may not be at home but you are not "more likely" to be away from home. The Northridge earthquake hit in the middle of the night. And, yes, you should educate yourself on what to do if you are at the office or in your car, but that's just a part of the whole preparation process.

I think this topic elicits some less than friendly responses because of the feeling it creates of not being in control of one's life and some fears we all have. Instead of reacting negatively, just accept the fear of lack of control and take little steps to do what you can now.

You can easily create a 3 day kit without buying one already put together. I have some of the commercially prepared kits and I don't really care for them.

yer my hero!!! Good analysis!

Being prepared brings about confidence and control....

Excellent link...won111
Ruth34611.... These are excellent suggestions.
I have basic knowledge, and supplies.
The way this world is going.....
We need all the help & information we can get....

if you are experienced, you can certainly put together your own kit, however, for most folks, obtaining a prepackaged kit is the way to go....it takes out much of the guess work and makes things much more simpler....too many things to do only makes us procrastinate more....

Yes, the kits can be convenient, but they are often lacking enough water and the food bars are horrible. I'd rather eat a can of spaghettios with a pop top lid and plastic spoon.

World Seismic Monitor Site.....take a look.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Ummm, that would be a H!ll to the NO! ... Check your facts Mr. Forecaster ...

... I actually strongly believe against living in Hurricane Alley, much less rebuilding it!

Settling those areas was sheer lunacy in the first place!

Resurrecting New Orleans is one of the dumb arse~est things I can recall in my lifetime!

Still, I moved to the mountains (... 'And in the End, be in the Mountains'...) and the whole place is on fire all summer! Then there are the tornadoes ...

... Oh, yes ... Then there are also the huge threats of earthquakes!

Where is there that is really safe from natural disaster???

I agree w/ Quietman ... the lady in my life I call 'THE Grandma', lives in San Angelo, West Texas and they don't even get tornadoes ... NOTHING ... just live and let live! No disaster history!

So? REAL disaster preparedness means finding areas not prone to any disasters!

Wonder how much of the world population can fit into West Texas until it caves in?

Unless you live completely off the grid...which is not a bad idea, I'd like to but can't afford it, you are susceptible to power outages, water tampering and any number of "disasters", natural or otherwise. It's just common sense to keep some supplies on hand in case you can't get to the store or some gas in your car in case you need to evacuate an area.

Check this stat about Tampa Bay, FL:

The area feels some effect from passing tropical systems almost every year, but direct hits are UNCOMMON. Estimates of the probability of a hurricane making landfall in the Tampa Bay area during any given year range from 1 in 25 to 1 in 50. While the historical record has shown that the area is vulnerable to a large storm (such as the Great Gale of 1848), Tampa Bay has NOT seen the landfall of any hurricane since 1946<------, and has not taken a hit from a major hurricane since 1921<-----.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_Tampa_Bay_Region

So next time someones says they don't want to move to Florida or visit there because of hurricanes, bring up this statistic about Tampa Bay. Other Florida cities are far more likely to get hit.

I Florida...

hahahahah! yes, indeed!

Great find! very cool!

Gimme a little advance notice.....


so I can go....



get a manicure and pedicure
my hair and and a facial


a new outfit
clean underwear


so I look good when they find me!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/09/california.earthquake/index.html

duuude

can you hook me up with some winning lotto numbers?

Remember the Dust Bowl? Or at least remember reading about it?

"The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops and other techniques to prevent erosion. Deep plowing of the virgin topsoil of the Great Plains had killed the natural grasses that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during periods of drought and high winds.

During the drought of the 1930s, with no natural anchors to keep the soil in place, it dried, turned to dust, and blew away eastward and southward in large dark clouds. At times the clouds blackened the sky reaching all the way to East Coast cities such as New York and Washington, D.C. Much of the soil ended up deposited in the Atlantic Ocean, carried by prevailing winds which were in part created by the dry and bare soil conditions itself. These immense dust storms–given names such as "Black Blizzards" and "Black Rollers"–often reduced visibility to a few feet (around a meter). The Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km2), centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.[2] The Dust Bowl was an ecological and human disaster caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought. Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes; many of these families (often known as "Okies", since so many came from Oklahoma) traveled to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better than those they had left. Owning no land, many traveled from farm to farm picking fruit and other crops at starvation wages. Author John Steinbeck later wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men about such people."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_bowl

This could happen again, watch the documentary Raging Sands of China. It will open your eyes.

YES,,but,,they have known and thought that for many,many years,,still THAT BIG ONE,,,which will kill milions if it happens.
IT has never even been widely GUESSED as when it will take place.
As the focast for it comes with half of Cali sliding into the ocean.
And its the placements of the plates under Cali,,that they think it.