You’re moving to San Francisco!!!

If You’re Going to San Francisco

This is your new neighbourhood!

This is your new house!

This is your new backyard!

This will be your room!

And just 10 minutes walk from your house, ...your new school!

There’s just ONE little problem...

What do you notice about the pattern of development around San Francisco?

Why don’t these areas

have any housing develop-ments on

them?

There’s just ONE little problem...

What do you notice about the pattern of development around San Francisco?

Land lying over fault lines have

restricted development, but roads and other transport routes cross over them.

There’s just ONE little problem...

1906

There’s just ONE little problem...

1989

There’s just ONE little problem...

Faults (lines of weakness in the crust)

The result of stress caused by plates grinding alongside one another.

A conservative plate boundary

There’s just ONE little problem...

1. Which plates are involved?2. Why do earthquakes most

commonly occur on fault lines?3. So why do people continue to

want to live in places like California given the dangers?

Managing Earthquakes

PREDICTION

PREVENTION

PREPARATION

RESPONSE

RECOVERY

RECONSTRUCTION

What do these words mean in terms of earthquake management?

Using data to forecast future events

Building buildings and roads that will survive

Getting people ready, emergency plans

Emergency shelters, food, water, healthcare

Clearing away debris, getting power back on.

Rebuilding buildings, roads, etc

Managing Earthquakes

PREDICTION

PREVENTION

PREPARATION

RESPONSE

RECOVERY

RECONSTRUCTION

Can you put these management strategies in the right order?

Managing Earthquakes

PREDICTION

PREVENTION

PREPARATION

RESPONSE

RECOVERY

RECONSTRUCTION

The 3 Ps! The 3 Rs!

BEFORE AFTER

Moving to California?!

When you arrive, your realtor has left this for your family to fill out...

EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS PLAN

Fill it out using information from the videos and websites

California Emergency Management Agency (CALEMA) page:http://www.calema.ca.gov/Pages/default.aspx

General advice on planning from FEMA:http://www.ready.gov/emergency-planning-checklists

Earthquake Country Alliance video:

http://www.earthquakecountry.info/video/preparing.html

Video on retrofitting your home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfOrxycYKtc

Earthquake Country Alliance: http://www.earthquakecountry.info/

PREPARATION

Moving to California?! PREPARATION

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Moving to California?! PREPARATION

Source: United States Geological Survey

Moving to California?! PREDICTION

How do they know a big

one’s on the way?!

Moving to California?! PREDICTION

Source: United States Geological Survey

Pattern Recognition – using past earthquakes to predict future ones...

Moving to California?! PREDICTION

1. What does this suggest about the risk of a large earthquake (bigger than 7.5) in California?

2. Can you suggest a date it might occur?3. Can you suggest a location?

About both Sichuan and California. Good throughout but in particular...3.30 to 10mins – faults, causes of earthquakes, and attempts to predict Parkfield California earthquake17 mins-23.30 – mapping California faults, 1906 earthquake in SF, measuring offset34 mins – 37 mins – UCLA earthquake prediction using pattern theory41 mins – NASA electric currents from fracturing rock, earthquake lights44 mins – California Quakefinder computer system47 - 49mins – earthquake proof buildings and roads and land use restrictions52.45 – Roger Bilham “earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do”54 -60 mins – ‘nowcasting’ rapid response warning system in California

Moving to California?! PREDICTION

Some of the more

pioneering methods

being developed in California...

Predicting the big one is clearly on everyone’s

minds...

Moving to California?! PREDICTION

Moving to California?! PREVENTION

Newly opened stretch of the Oakland Bay

Bridge

VID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvAIivBaxso

Moving to California?! PREVENTIONOne Rincon Hill VID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3UVMHjvFWs

Transamerica Pyramid

Moving to California?! PREVENTION

Moving to California?! PREVENTION

Lifeguard earthquake proof deskVID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurQFRCqWEg

Moving to California?! PREVENTION

Researching earthquake proof buildings VID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loAtwiVpjvE

Moving to California?! PREVENTION

San Francisco airport INFO: http://www.earthquakeprotection.com/building_san_francisco_airport_terminal.html

http://www.earthquakeprotection.com/popup_bearing_works291007.html