Nearly 1 million people in government offices, businesses and schools throughout San Diego County will stop everything for a minute Thursday to 'drop, cover and hold on' during a statewide earthquake preparedness drill, now in its 15th year.
People participate at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. Up and down the West Coast, the ShakeOut drill was scheduled to begin at 10:19 a.m. PDT with a cellphone-rattling test alert from the region's ShakeAlert earthquake warning system.
Municipalities whose local government employees will be involved include Del Mar, National City, Oceanside, Imperial Beach, Santee and San Marcos, along with the county and the Port of San Diego. According to ShakeOut.org, the objective is to emphasize precautions during a 7.8 magnitude or larger quake along the southernmost portion of the San Andreas fault.
Hundreds of aftershocks would ensue — a few of them nearly as big as the original quake, according to the USGS.
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