Don’t delay. Call 619-522-8911 or 619-522-7374 to register for your free and low-priced disaster preparedness classes. Also, you can register online at www.adulted-rop.coronado.k12.ca.us.
Here are your opportunities:
(1) CPR – starting August 28 and following – learn how to revive adults, infants and how to use the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) machine you see in public buildings and keep on your boat. Cost: $25.00. UCSD Medical Center underwrites this program as part of the institution’s community outreach program. Normally, this class would cost $65.
(2) CERT – starting October 16 and following – learn disaster preparedness, fire suppression, medical operations, light search and rescue, terrorism, disaster psychology and team organization. Cost: free.
(3) Amateur Radio Courses – starting September 8 and following – earn your FCC license for amateur radio right here in Coronado for technician class and/or general class licenses. Cost: $35.00 per license.
Thank you to my four colleagues on city council for their unanimous support of my public safety initiative to offer Coronado constituents more opportunities for disaster preparedness.
Thank you to Fire Chief John Traylor and Superintendent Jeff Felix for making it happen through the city adult education program.
Classes are available at low or no cost to retired senior citizens, working adults and students.
Students in home school, private school, public school and Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts may take these classes for vital life skills. Also, check with your counsellors to see if you are eligible for credit or other recognition.
Southern California is overdue for ‘The Big One,’ study finds
August 20, 2010 | 11:11 am
Los Angeles Times
Southern California is overdue for a major earthquake along the San Andreas fault, according to a landmark study released Friday. . .”What we know is for the last 700 years, earthquakes on the southern San Andreas fault have been much more frequent than everyone thought,” said UC Irvine researcher Sinan Akciz said in a statement. “Data presented here contradict previously published reports.”
Added UCI researcher Lisa Grant Ludwig: “People should not stick their heads in the ground. There are storm clouds gathered on the horizon. Does that mean it’s definitely going to rain? No, but when you have that many clouds, you think, ‘I’m going to take my umbrella with me today.’ That’s what this research does: It gives us a chance to prepare.”
That would make the region overdue for the type of catastrophic quake often referred to as “The Big One.”
The finding adds weight to the view of many Southern California seismologists that the San Andreas has been in a quiet period and that a major rupture is possible.
The research, published Friday in the journal Geology, used charcoal samples to look for earthquake activity going back centuries.
Note: The San Andreas Fault runs entirely within California from near Eureka in the north to near Brawley in Imperial County, east of San Diego County. Geologists think that activation of this fault could activate other nearby faults, for example the ones in San Diego County.
