Thursday is Great Shake Drill

Editor's note: For more on how to get ready for the Big One, visit KCET's Earthquake Preparedness resource area.Thursday morning at 10:15am is the Great California Shake Out, a mass earthquake preparedness and response drill.

A handful of past seismic-related research by Calif. tanks and guilds include:

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  *A Critical Look at Earthquake Preparations in the Los Angeles Basin, by Robert L. Patrick (RAND)
  
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  A Balanced Earthquake Engineering Program, by Edward W. Merrow and Kathy Rosenblatt (RAND)
  
• After Shock, a collaborative online post-quake simulation (Institute for the Future, et al.)
  
• Long Beach Earthquake: 75th Anniversary (Southern California Earthquake Center at USC)
  
• Global Earthquake Model Survey (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute)