This year over 7.8 Million Californians participated in the California ShakeOut, a state-wide earthquake drill, trumping last year’s participant number of 6.9 million.  Our Tours4Fun Team also participated in the drill, dropping underneath our desks at the strike of 10:21 am, the time the drill was designated to occurr. The shakeout is held on the 3rd Thursday in October every year, and is practiced by other states as well.  The ShakeOut recommends practicing a drill of dropping to the floor, covering underneath a desk, and holding on until the shaking stops.

Despite popular belief, standing under a door frame is not the best place to be during an earthquake.  This was true years ago in the time of adobe houses, but today’s housing construction provides just as much stability under the door frame as it does throughout the rest of the house.

California is known for earthquakes, the two most infamous being at Fort Tejon in 1957 and San Francisco in 1906.  Another San Francisco earthquake that made headlines was the Loma Prieta quake of 1989.  The damages were enormous at $6 billion (equivalent to $11 billion today). Today San Francisco has fully recovered from the damage, but still remains as an icon of earthquake history in the U.S. 

To learn more about the San Francisco earthquakes, see the links below:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20019755-10391709.html

http://www.sfmuseum.org/
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/222

To book a sightseeing tour of San Francisco, and see the once collapsed city back on its feet, check out these links:

3-Day San Francisco, 17 Miles Scenic Drive Tour

3-Day Solvang – Hearst Castle – San Francisco – Yosemite Bus Tour

3-Day San Francisco and Yosemite Bus Tour

4-Day Monterey-San Francisco-Reno-Lake Tahoe-Sequoia Bus Tour

2-Day San Francisco Bus Tour (Starts in LA – Ends in SFO)

And don’t forget to use our West Coast Discount Coupon:

http://www.tours4fun.com/landing/coupons.html