The Great Southern California ShakeOut • November 12-16, 2008 • A week of special events to inspire southern Californians to get ready for big earthquakes • Region-wide earthquake drill Nov. 13 – millions of participants: schools, families, community groups, business, etc. – UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Irvine and a number of other SC universities are participating with all staff, students and faculty • Los Angeles International Earthquake
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The Great Southern California ShakeOut• November 12-16, 2008
• A week of special events to inspiresouthern Californians to get ready forbig earthquakes
• Region-wide earthquake drill Nov. 13– millions of participants: schools, families,
community groups, business, etc.– UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Irvine and a
number of other SC universities are participating with all staff, students and faculty
• Los Angeles International EarthquakePolicy Conference
• Concurrent with statewide “GoldenGuardian” emergency exercise:largest ever this year.
ShakeOut scenario: Facts
Southern San Andreas Fault
Quiescence period: 300+ years
Slip rate: 20-28 mm/yr
Surface velocity mapderived from imagery collected byspace-borne radar satellites
Epoch: 1992-2000
Fialko, Nature 2006
Bottom line: the fault is storing energy25 mm/yr x 300 yrs = 7.5 m (24 ft) of slip
• Southernmost San Andreas
• 180 mile rupture
• Magnitude 7.8
• 100 seconds of fault rupture
• Shaking for over 2minutes in many places
• USGS-led effort of many scientists, engineers,and others to create arealistic scenario of what willhappen.
One Possible “Big One”
Shaking of Long Duration
Widespread Strong Ground Shaking
+ Shaking of Long Duration =
300,000 buildings significantly damaged
Widespread infrastructure damage
$213 billion damages
270,000 displaced persons
50,000 injuries
1,800 deaths
ShakeOut Scenario “Disaster Equation”
• 300,000 significantly damaged (1 in 16)– repairs cost at least 10% of replacement cost
• 45,000 complete losses (1% of all buildings)
• Unreinforced masonry (most dangerous)– 300+ complete collapses– most near the fault will be destroyed – Retrofitting will save lives
• Older concrete buildings (almost as dangerous)– 50 collapses
• 10% of this type in highest shaking areas may collapse• 5 pancake collapse, 45 partial collapse
– 100 red tagged buildings– 5,000 – 10,000 people in collapsed buildings (most survive)
• Pre-1994 Steelframe buildings (at risk, but less dangerous)– High rises will receive intense long-period shaking– Scenario assumes 5 collapses (not necessarily complete collapse)– 10 red tags– 11-15 stories, up to 1,000 occupants each