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- Title
- Protecting Your Family from Earthquakes: The Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety.
- File
- PB2007106877.pdf
- Source
- January 2007, 48 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- ISBN-1-411-31251-1
- Abstract
- The San Francisco Bay Area has had and will continue to have earthquakes because it has at least eight earthquake faults (black lines on map) that can cause serious damage. Large damaging earthquakes happened here in 1868, 1906, and 1989; smaller damaging earthquakes occur more often. Scientific research shows that, more likely than not, a big quake will happen here in the next 30 years. Strong ground shaking will cause most of the damage. Areas of soft soil, mainly near the bay, shake harder than areas of hard rock. Unlike some earthquakes that occur beneath the ocean, Bay Area earthquakes are not expected to cause significant tsunamis. However, distant earthquakes around the Pacific Ocean can generate tsunamis capable of producing damage along our coast.
- Keywords
- Korean; San Francisco Bay Area; Earthquake faults; Safety; Pacific Ocean; Vietnamese; Tsunamis; Maps; Protection; Earthquakes; Chinese