United States 10 million people attended the largest earthquake drill

Local time at 10:15 on October 15, residents of California, San Francisco, Wu Ni, after hearing sirens, took her first-aid kits, rapid incline drill into the table below, firmly grasp a table leg. Three minutes later, the exercise warning lifted, Wu Ni easily get up and continue to do her chores.

Wu Ni of the first-aid kits, there is a three-day water and food, has her emergency contact telephone numbers and the Chinese passport and green card copy, and she must serve every day of thyroid medicine and emergency medicine, flashlights and whistles, folding raincoat, maps, as well as a few 10 U.S. dollars in cash.

According to an earthquake drill organized by statistics, more than 10 million California residents participated in the United States was held this morning the largest-ever earthquake drill to mark the twentieth anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake. Participants in the office, restaurants, public transport, schools, and home exercises in the earthquake comes, how to protect themselves and rescue others.

In San Francisco, San Jose, south of the city of science and technology museum, the students here on simulation exercises. Compartment where they are shaking, and constantly falling objects classroom, according to the staff of the password get on the ground, drill into the chair, or under their desks and try to be their own fixed, wait until the shaking stops.

Twenty years ago at 17:04 on October 17, the San Francisco region 6.9 earthquake, just 15 seconds, causing 63 people dead and 3700 injured, more than 10000 non – family can be attributed to. Bay Bridge and 880 Freeway fracture, San Francisco, Malina area, causing fires and more than 40 houses were burned down. Earthquake losses more than six billion U.S. dollars.