USGS Earthquake Handbook for the San Francisco Bay Region
Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country: Your Handbook for the San Francisco Bay Region
This 31-page handbook by the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Geological Survey, provides information about the threat posed by earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay region and explains how you can prepare for, survive, and recover from these inevitable events.
If you live or work in the San Francisco Bay region you need to know why you should be concerned with earthquakes, what you can expect during and after a quake, and what you need to do beforehand to be safe and reduce damage.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company encourages customer safety and co-sponsored this initiative developed by:
- American Red Cross, Bay Area Chapter
- Association of Bay Area Governments
- California Earthquake Authority
- California Geological Survey
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- Governor's Office of Emergency Services
- San Francisco Office of Emergency Services and Homeland Security
- Southern California Earthquake Center
- Structural Engineers Association of Northern California
- University of California Berkeley
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- U.S. Geological Survey
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