ABAG Earthquake Quiz - Answer 1

Answer #1 Fiction!

When people are terrified, they don’t necessarily act. The purpose of the maps is to encourage people to act through appropriate planning for, and mitigation of, earthquake hazards.

For some ideas on what you can do as someone living in the Bay Area, click here.


ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments, is the regional planning and services agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. This information is based on the ABAG reports, "The San Francisco Bay Area - On Shaky Ground."

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