The Great California ShakeOut Earthquake Drill

Experts Available For Interviews On How To Reduce Your Risk Of Earthquake Damage

The California Earthquake Authority (CEA), which has experts available to help you reduce your risk during an earthquake, will be taking part in the Great California ShakeOut drill, on Oct. 15.

The annual drill is a reminder that California is earthquake country and that we all need to get prepared. CEA believes it is important to practice how to Drop, Cover, and Hold On to protect yourself during an earthquake.

It is also important to learn how to better protect your home by strengthening it with a retrofit, so that it can better withstand a damaging earthquake. Millions of Californians live in older houses that need to be strengthened to make them more resistant to earthquake damage.

“Damaging earthquakes can strike at any time, and the Great California ShakeOut drill is an important reminder of what we need to do in order to survive and recover. Earthquakes are a reality, but they don’t have to be devastating; strengthen your home now and get prepared,” said CEA CEO Glenn Pomeroy. “With our health care system already stressed by COVID-19, we all need to take steps to keep ourselves safe when the ground shakes.”

Pomeroy and Janiele Maffei, CEA chief mitigation officer, will be available for interviews upon request on Oct. 14 and 15 (Spanish speaker available). via telephone or video-conference call.

Speakers from the following partner organizations will also be available for interviews: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA Region 9), U.S. Geological Survey, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Earthquake Country Alliance, Southern California Earthquake Center, American Red Cross – Los Angeles Region, Insurance Information Institute, UC Berkeley Seismology Lab, Los Angeles Emergency Management Department. Contact: Jason Ballmann, Deputy Global Coordinator for the Great ShakeOut Drills, (562) 884-2360.

Information about the earthquake drill, other manuals, flyers and PDFs can be found at www.shakeout.org/California on the Resources page.

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The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) is a not-for-profit public instrumentality of the state of California that has two distinct roles: Since 1996, CEA has provided residential earthquake insurance while educating Californians about earthquake risk and helping them reduce their risk of earthquake losses through residential mitigation. Since 2019, CEA also has administered the Wildfire Fund, a catastrophe fund that provides a source of funding for payment of claims arising from a wildfire caused by any large electrical utility company that meets the legal requirements for participation in the fund.

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www.earthquakeauthority.com