Prepare for Earthquakes

Ultrafast quake warnings are the future promise, but meanwhile early-warning systems are bringing us benefits right now.

The February 2001 Seattle earthquake has demonstrated that preparedness pays.

Earthquake professionals list the elements of a quake-resistant society.

Tips from readers on protecting computer systems from earthquakes.

Earthquake engineers are out there learning lessons from earthquakes.

Nothing motivates earthquake safety like kids' lives.

Japan has been preparing for it for over 25 years.

Cascadia is America's tectonic version of Sumatra, where the great quake of 2004 occurred.

A look in the guts of a well-built new building, the foot of a classic old one, and advice on seismic surfing.

Each year's Kathmandu Earthquake Safety Day on January 16 is one more small step in an impossible journey for this precarious city.

This site from the Association of Bay Area Governments covers retrofitting, quakeproofing your possessions and family emergency planning, plus many other subjects.

A calendar-based set of guidelines and information on all sorts of emergencies, not just earthquakes—but it began as a quake-safety program for Southern California.

This California experiment may lead to a working system in the 2010s.

This agency administers earthquake insurance on behalf of a group of private insurers.

United Policyholders is a nonprofit with impartial advice on California's earthquake insurance system.

This independent scientific agency has quake safety guides for homeowners and commercial property owners, plus much more.

John A. Martin & Associates consulting engineers produced this thorough set of pages, which look especially suitable for printing out. The Earthquakes tab in the left sash has more links.

The California Emergency Management Agency has a long list of helpful documents for businesses, homes, task forces and agencies.

This coalition-building organization, headed by respected professionals, works for coordinated nationwide disaster policies.

An excellent, thorough introduction to earthquake science from the Southern California Earthquake Center.