The Great ShakeOut takes place on the third Thursday of every October. The event is part of a global earthquake drill.

Oakland officials participated in "The Great California Shakeout" on Thursday morning and called on members of the public to ...

At 10:16 a.m. local time on October 16, millions of people will be practicing how to properly drop, cover, and hold on. You ...

However, not all the students felt confident in everyone’s preparedness. SMC student Isabella Garcia said she felt that the drill seemed unorganized when compared with high school earthquake drills ...

The Senate on Monday morning temporarily suspended its committee hearings as it conducted an earthquake and fire drill, ...

Southbound traffic comes to a halt on the 14 Freeway after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which left large pieces of the roadway heavily damaged. (Lacy Atkins / Los Angeles Times) A major earthquake ...

Assistant Fire Chief Frank Blackburn held a drill to practice the portable water system he created six days before the 1989 ...

Around 150,000 residents in Marikina City joined the citywide simultaneous earthquake simulation drill on Monday as part of ...

Ella Xing, a junior at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, has been through her fair share of emergency drills. But from her perspective, the simulations are too rigid and easily dismissed by her peers. ...

Cebu City’s disaster preparedness efforts took a significant stride forward with the first night-time earthquake drill held at Cebu I.T. Park, targeting the city’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ...

COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - Students at Columbia Elementary School were among the many folks in Mississippi who participated in ...

The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Council has also urged local government units to strengthen earthquake preparedness and ...