Nobody should be caught without insurance. It’s an essential tool to guard against excessive risk associated with our automobiles, our property, our health, even our lives.
But while insurance may help to cushion the blow of an […]
In the midst of a global pandemic, the County of San Diego is bracing itself against disaster of all kinds.
A $6.4 billion budget recommended for fiscal year 2020-21 had $100 million dedicated to testing, medical supplies, food distribution and other needs related to the COVID-19 health crisis, and also called […]
Brace yourself.
The odds of a cataclysmic 7.0 earthquake erupting along the deadly San Andreas fault have shot up dramatically – to just 1-in-5 in the next 30 years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
New information released by the USGS and others reveals that recent swarms of earthquakes near the Salton […]
Ridgecrest’s 6.4- and 7.1-magnitude earthquakes last year triggered ground movement that is believed to have raised the major earthquake risk along the San Andreas Fault – considered the most dangerous seismic threat in the United States.
Two recent research studies point to Ridgecrest as the impetus of successive ground-shaking that may […]
Imagine you’re back in 2018, but with knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic. What investment in readiness would you have made?
Now translate that to earthquakes and the opportunities you have now to guard against adversity:
Reaction to last month’s 4.9-magnitude earthquake in Anza was the same for just about everybody who felt it: That’s the LAST thing we need right now.
Striking in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and felt throughout San Diego, Orange and western Riverside counties, the quake jolted us into realizing the […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has us all thinking differently about what it means to be prepared for widespread calamity.
The virus raged into our communities somewhat unexpectedly, much like an earthquake or other natural catastrophe might, and the impacts under these real and projected scenarios are the same: lives lost, hundreds hospitalized, […]
Orange County’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic was like much of the rest of California: lives lost, businesses closed, social distancing enforced, and most everyone told to wait it out in the isolation of their homes.
These have been unprecedented times, and in many ways the experience has heightened our […]
All of us by now have experienced the widespread economic impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic, whether from business closures, confinement to our homes, unemployment, working remotely, or unavailability of services we have come to depend on. Disruption has been extensive.
And it’s likely that most of us know someone who […]
California had a reputation for earthquakes long before the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, yet the state’s legacy of taking action to prepare for them has been mostly a spotty pattern of starts and stops as lawmakers respond from one disaster to the next.
The state’s first “Great San Francisco […]
