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I participated in this - funny, because I was the only person at work who had actually heard about it - and I had my HAM radio with me to monitor how the different areas were handling "traffic" on the air. It was interesting to hear the "mock" staging of resources and how other states actually participated to say, "We can send "x number" of water trucks from Southern Arizona," or whatever. Of course, all was calm and organized - which it wouldn't be if the emergency were real. But so many schools checked in and clinics and hospitals, etc., that I think it was a good drill for emergency personnel, particularly.

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Yes that is correct. It was a good exercise for the emergency response people. Knowing what their job is in any given event is a good tool for them to use when it actually does happen. Many airports do this type of drill yearly in preparation of a major crash. It has proven to pay off when the United Flight crashed in Sioux City, Iowa.

It was proven that the emergency workers and first responders did what they were trained to do and the coordinated effort went smooth because of the training they had. Where they all calm? I very much doubt it but in this type of situation people have been shown that they do as they were trained and that is what makes the difference in a major disaster. With out the training it would be a huge mess.

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How interesting that we should have an earthquake today, just 3 days after the drill. Only 4.1, but it was epicentered just 30 miles from here and it *rocked* the house at 4:20 this morning.

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Seismologist Roger Bilham: "In Recent Earthquakes, Buildings Have Acted as Weapons of Mass Destruction"

Even as the people of southern Chile continue to grapple with the rising death toll and the devastation wrought by Saturday's massive earthquake, many seismologists believe the wreckage could have been far worse. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday morning was 500 times more powerful than the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th of this year. But it caused only a fraction of the casualties in comparison to the 300,000 people estimated to have died in Haiti. Seismologists suggest that one reason for the difference in scale is that Chile enforced building codes for earthquake resistant structures after the experience of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake fifty years ago in 1960. Ref. Source 6

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One of the big problems with Earthquakes is that they cannot be accurately followed or predicted as one would predict a hurricane but that may soon change because of toads! See this Thread: Source 1

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Monster earthquake would devastate Pacific Northwest:

When it hits, the report says, there will be devastation and death from Northern California to British Columbia. Ref. Source 7

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Report: Eastern U.S. At greater risk for earthquakes

Earthquake hazards appear to be growing in parts of the eastern and central U.S. Ref. Source 7

Earthquake Politics Business Civil & History - Page 5

I was checking the UWI Seismic Research Centre FB page and there was a lot of activity in Barbados and surrounding areas today and continues.

The first one was at 7:01am with a magnitude of 5.7. Then another one at 11:16 am with a magnitude of 6.4. A third was felt at 11:29 am with a magnitude of 5.1. A fourth at 11:36 with a magnitude of 5.3. And a fifth one at 12:23pm (That also was felt in Port of Spain, Trinidad) with a magnitude of 3.8. Source 4e