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Recent Bay Area earthquakes
Recent California and Nevada earthquakes
Recent Los Angeles Area earthquakes
Recent earthquakes in other areas of the US and the world
Federal Government Sites
- FEMA
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Global Seismic Hazard Map – View the Bay Area in a world-wide context, produced as a demonstration project of the United Nations International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction (UN/IDNDR)
Disaster Supplies Kit
Earthquake Fact Sheet
“Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country” - a handbook developed by USGS, ABAG, the American Red Cross-Bay Area and others specifically for the Bay Area
California Earthquake Information
Ask-A-Geologist
Bay Area Earthquake Alliance – A USGS program to coordinate awareness and preparedness activities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
California State Government Sites
- California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA)
- California Geological Survey (CGS)
- California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) – Seismic Retrofit Program
- California Seismic Safety Commission
Utility Providers Earthquake Information
- East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) – Earthquake Preparedness and Seismic Improvement Program
- Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) – Earthquake Safety Information
- Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) – Gas Transmission Pipeline Long Range Planning
- BART – Earthquake Safety Program
Nonprofit Earthquake Information
- American Red Cross Bay Area
- Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC)
- The Great California Shake Out
- PrepareNow.org - supporting special needs and vulnerable populations
Academic and Research Earthquake Information Sites
- Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) – Recent Earthquake Teachable Moments
- UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
- UC Berkeley Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
- Structural Engineering Association of California (SEAOC)
- Northern California Earthquake Data Center
- SAC Steel Project – to improve the behavoir of welded steel structures in earthquakes
The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
The 1906 Earthquake
- The Museum of the City of San Francisco – 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Photographs and Exhibits
- America Hurrah! – 1906 photographs
- UC Berkeley PEER Library
- USGS information on 1906 earthquake
- Historic film: Market St in 1906 before the quake
Earthquake Information for Southern California
- The Seismological Laboratory of CalTech
- The Southern California Earthquake Data Center
- Southern California Earthquake Scenarios
- Southern California U.S. Geological Survey
- Southern California Gas Company – emergency preparedness information
- Los Angeles Fire Department’s Disaster Preparedness Information