New Online Tool Helps Residents Assess Earthquake Risk
The Earthquake Home Quiz can be accessed at ABAG's Resilience Program's website at homequakequiz.org, along with a downloadable PDF of the Earthquake Field Guide to help assess potential impacts of earthquakes. The new Earthquake Field Guide is being released to coincide with the 10th Annual Great California ShakeOut on
"The time to prepare is now," said
The
The quiz allows residents to gain insight into seismic safety, whether they are in a single-family home, apartment building or mobile home. The types of housing in the region are as diverse as the
The release of these online tools come in the wake of updated ABAG estimates of housing losses in the region as a result of a large-scale earthquake. The ABAG data tell a compelling and personal story about the
ABAG's newest estimates of housing losses provide a significant update to the last such data released in 2003 with the latest figures reflecting current housing stock and the
The figures use the most recent modeling techniques to identify potential residential housing losses for 16 plausible earthquake scenarios in the
Under this scenario,
Founded in 1961, ABAG is the official regional planning agency for the 101 cities and towns, and nine counties of the
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