1. The Big One - California's Impending Earthquake
... to medical facilities, "the utilities and local government agencies need to examine available routes to these and other critical facilities and identify the most probable access routes."(Steinbrugge et al, 101-102) State agencies have to make the scenario planning real and start the project to prevent more casualties. While political and other agencies overlook the problem San Andreas Fault ... that the earthquake will occur for another 30 million years, "a probability of 14% and 26% was composed for a magnitude 7 event to occur within the next 50 years."(Steinbrugge et al, 55) This sta...
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