Tips On Earthquake Emergency Preparation
In 1906, the residents of San Francisco, California, had an abrupt change of lifestyle. They
learned that almost anything can happen without warning. An earthquake killed about 3,000
people and caused over $400 million in property damages. In 1920, the Gansu earthquake in
China took about 200,000 lives. Then in 1948, the region around Ashgabat in the Soviet Union
suffered a powerful quake that claimed over two-thirds of that city's population (110,000 people
died).
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