ShakeOut is a day dedicated to earthquake education and outreach in California that happens every year on the third Thursday of October. During my Ph.D at the University of California Riverside I volunteered every year to set up a booth with info, flyers, demos and interactive activities for the campus community to engage with. This is always a great event, with lots of campus community participation and most importantly the feedback we receive always includes how informative it is; people genuinely leave feeling more prepared and knowledgeable about what to expect and how to react during the next big earthquake.

As a postdoc at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at  the University of California San Diego, I have had the opportunity to give two separate presentations to the San Diego County Counsel focusing on earthquake preparedness and continuation of operations. In these two presentations I focused more on the expected ground shaking, building response, and resilience of critical and non-critical infrastructure, as well as other associated earthquake hazards such as liquefaction and fire. In addition, I shared some information on personal/at home preparation as well.