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Tips for Living With Liquefaction
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Tips for Living With Liquefaction
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Did You Know? –
Areas with moderate to very high LIQUEFACTION susceptibility have many more water and natural gas pipeline leaks in earthquakes.
Do you have a 3 - 5 day supply of drinking water for your family?
Do you know how to turn off your natural gas if you smell a leak?
Think about installing
a gas shut-off
device!
Did You Know? –
Areas with moderate to very high LIQUEFACTION susceptibility have many more buckled roads in earthquakes.
Do you have a 3 - 5 day supply of food and medications for your family?
Do you keep walking shoes at work?
Does your child's school have a list of others authorized to pick them up if you are delayed?
Do you have back-up plans for feeding and safety of pets?
Did You Know? –
The Port of Kobe, Japan, handles over 10 times the cargo of Oakland. LIQUEFACTION caused major damage in a 1995 earthquake. After 3 years, 10 - 15% of business had still not returned to the Port of Kobe.
Plan other ways to get your products to other parts of the country!
Did You Know? –
SFO, OAK, and SJC can have runway damage in an earthquake due to LIQUEFACTION.
Plan other ways to get your products to other parts of the country!
Did You Know? – In
the Northridge earthquake, homes
damaged by LIQUEFACTION
or ground failure were 30 times
more likely to require demolition than those homes only damaged by ground
shaking.
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