ABAG

Earthquake event Thursday, ABAG has tools to help

By Mark Prado
Earthquake
USGS photo

With the annual Shake Out event coming up Thursday, the Association of Bay Area Governments wants to help you prepare for an earthquake. An online tool from ABAG is available to help residents identify potential earthquake-related damage to their homes and provides information on how to gird against the next big temblor.

The Earthquake Home Quiz can be accessed at ABAG’s Resilience Program’s website.

It’s the continual movement of the Earth’s plates against each other that causes energy to build. When the plates slip, energy is released and earthquakes result. In the Bay Area’s case, it’s the Pacific Plate moving northwest past the North American Plate that puts pressure along the faults in the region.

New data from the U.S. Geological Survey shows as increased chance of shaking for parts of the East and South bays.

The USGS has determined there is a 72 percent of at least one earthquake of magnitude 6.7 or greater striking somewhere in the Bay Area in the next 30 years. 

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