ShakeOut! Simulated Consequences of a M 7.8 San Andreas Earthquake Ken Hudnut; United States Geological Survey November 13, Summit on Creating Disaster Resilient Communities Los Angeles, California 15 January 2009
ShakeOut Steering Committee: Lucy Jones, Dale Cox, Sue Perry, Mark Benthien, John Bwarie, Margaret Vinci, Monica Buchanan, Kate Long, Sohini Sinha, Larry Collins and Ken Hudnut Scenario Coordinators: Lucy Jones, Rich Bernknopf, Dale Cox, Jim Goltz, Ken Hudnut, Dennis Mileti, Sue Perry, Dan Ponti, Keith Porter, Mike Reichle, Hope Seligson, Kim Shoaf, Jerry Treiman, and Anne Wein Earthquake Source & Ground Motions: Ken Hudnut, Brad Aagaard, Rob Graves, Jon Stewart, Lisa Star, Tom Jordan and many others
Palm Springs Los Angeles Bakersfield Compare with 1994 Northridge earthquake: 50x smaller Magnitude deaths $40 billion Big One - what do we mean by that? Compare with 2008 Chino Hills earthquake: 5000x smaller! Magnitude deaths Minimal damage
Mw 7.8 Mexico City Earthquake, 1985 Sources: Bob Reitherman, CUREE Mehmet Celebi, USGS
Get Ready LA Live! Steve Sellers, OES M. Vinci, K. Long, M. Buchanan of the ShakeOut Steering Committee Theo Alexopoulos, Pasadena Art Center Preparedness Now
What we do now, before the earthquake, will determine what our lives will be like after The Bottom Line
"This is the best single effort in emergency preparedness in my nearly 20 years in the business. The Golden Guardian / Great Shake Out project did more to prepare our cities than all previous efforts combined for many years past. I have never had so much participation and interest in disaster preparedness. And it continues!” - Los Angeles County Emergency Manager
Ken Hudnut, USGS