Happy New Year 2012! With a new year comes a new opportunity to get things started in the right direction. Consider disaster preparedness for example. Is that another one of those resolutions that never seems to stick? Meet the North Coast CERT 26-week Disaster Preparedness Planner, a tool designed to help you gather the supplies you need and to make the necessary plans to get your home and workplace disaster prepared.
Read more →Preparedness is an ongoing process. We all have to begin the process, and once begun, routine maintenance is important.
So, since we’re all facing the same regional hazards, why not face them together as a community? It would be great if we could all create a prepared household at the same time.
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Thanks to the talents of local graphic artist Gerri Sorkin, North Coast CERT now has the long desired “customized” CERT logo. Coming soon January 2012, your weekly disaster preparedness kit building lessons, courtesy of our local businesses.
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Did you know that as of July 1, 2011 all residential single-family dwellings in California are required by law to have an operating Carbon Monoxide Detector?
Why are these devices important? It’s simple: like smoke alarms, they can save lives.
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It seems like the earth off the coast of Oregon just wants to move these days. This evening there was an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9Mw off the coast of Oregon. The earthquake occured on one of the corners between the Pacific Plate and the Juan de Fuca plate.
No tsunami alerts or warnings have been issued for this event.
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When the subject of triage comes up within the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) scenario, it is clear that we are dealing with a situation where not only are you outnumbered victims to rescuers, but resources are limited and time is of the utmost.
As you steer through that always-dangerous curve headed to work that morning, you are the only witness to a traffic collision.
Read more →Here on the west coast we mostly expect earthquakes to happen. As such our infrastructure has been hardened to withstand most moderate to heavy quakes. But what happens when an earthquake hits an area that is relatively unprepared for seismic activity?
At 13:51 EDT, a 5.9 Mw earthquake jolted the entire eastern seaboard. The relatively shallow shock was felt not only in the D.C. area but in New York City and as far inland as Ohio.
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People came here to rural Mendocino County to get away from the rest of the world. While privacy is one thing, it is essential not to isolate and remove oneself from the map entirely. If a medical emergency were to occur, could first responders find your home?
Read more →We just received notice that a 6.4Mw earthquake occurred a mere 11 miles off the coast of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. That’s the size of an earthquake that normally makes the news. Yet this one was “just an aftershock.” Were that size quake to strike that close to our coast, how would we do as a region? How would you do? Look around your home/office. Is your space earthquake safe?
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For anyone living in earthquake country, the concept of “The Big One” is very real. Here on the North Coast, the San Andreas Fault lurks just offshore a few miles. While it has been a long time since the last time it moved with significance, we only need to look back 105 years to see what can happen when it does. But “big” can be widely interpreted. Is 7.0 big? What about 8.0? Come to think of it, how do they measure earthquakes?
Read more →We are happy to announce our new and improved web presence. Partnering with High Lonesome Online has allowed us to focus on posting information to our website (http://northcoastcert.org) as well as our Facebook page without having to deal with all of the copy/paste. So tell your friends to sign up for our RSS feed or friend us on Facebook. We’ll be publishing CERT intro and refresher articles, as well as updates and ways to stay involved in your local community. Spread the word. CERT is again happening on the North Coast.
Read more →In case you felt the little bump we had tonight, but you haven’t yet filled out the USGS “Shake Report” do take the few minutes…it gives them a good sense as to how earthquakes are perceived by humans (remember from your CERT class…this is the “intensity” measurement of earthquakes).
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