Earthquakes
A Prevention Guide
to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety
Planning for a
natural disaster will help to prevent injury and devastation. Practicing
what you will do if an earthquake happens is a vital part of that
planning.
While California has
been the state most prone to serious earthquakes in recent years, there
are many other fault zones in other areas of the United States. For
example, geologists and seismologists have predicted a 97 percent chance
of a major earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone of the central
United States (including Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky)
between now and the year 2035. While earthquakes with the power of the
one that hit the greater Los Angeles area in January 1994 are fairly
rare, less severe earthquakes can interrupt your normal living patterns
and cause substantial injury. |