>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those

earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the

weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it

bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't

tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances

buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits.

you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ?

>> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross

that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for nology for our first responders. there is a management that will better serve san francisco. public safety personnel better equip and the cutting edge of public safety is [inaudible] >> helly over wn and thank you for being here on this very special occasion. today we mark a new beginning for public safety and earthquake preparedness our r in our great city of san francisco. each of us here will stand witness to had beginning of a new great civic jewel. we in front of the years of planning and coordination that brought this magnificent facility to life, equip with modern tools and prepared to serve. from the architect and? gen earring design devtop tooz the first

shoves in the ground and to the installation of the solar panels and art work, this massive project stands here ready to serve the peep olof san francisco beginning this weekend and serving for decades to come. this building is a step forward in technology for our first responders. there is a change management transitioning happening here that will better serve the resident of san francisco. public safety person elare better equipped and the cutting edge puplic safety is with the kait of the art facility. less paper, less cabinetess, more electronics, more security and communication. this is a major step forward prime uving on first response and onse we are fortunate to have the support of the voters by approvaling bonds measures that fundsing

the project and fortunate to live and work here reaping the benefit of this new post-. it is a honor to be here in front of you and recognize the opening of the new police department head quarter squz public safety campus. this morning we will hear from fire and police departments and we'll acknowledge all the hard work that went into the delivering this project and what it means to the city public safety personal el. i would like to thank you all for coming and point out a few of the special guests we have here with us. former mayor willy brown is here. former mayor frank jordan is here. former police chief an tonio revirs is here. quite a number of supervisors, i see [inaudible] i christensen. [inaudible]

cohen is here. so the s the president of the board of supervisors london breed is here. [inaudible] is here. that is the real boss. from the police commission, we have victor wong, thomas mu zokeo and sonia malara here. from the arts commission, jd [inaudible] are here. from fire [inaudible] steve nucaujo and markal hardman are all here. i see quite a number of department heads, ed riscon, debbie raffial is here, our da [inaudible] recognize him from a police chief. and then many

many people it to thank you and and as i go through the event i will thank if i have for gotten you or didn't call your name to be recognized. our partners from hok paul woodferred, the architects. and working with him [inaudible] carba narrow and associates. and of course our builders, [inaudible] builders 2 very important people, frank murray who is superintend thochbt project and [inaudible] sfaubl for working with all the engineers and architects and making sure we are here today. [inaudible] builders. not to forget all the neighbors from mu drone and [inaudible] housing complex who are neighbors of the project.

a big hand for them too, please. we are grateful for your atejd ance to maurk the moment in the cities history. firs up it is a pleasure to introduce someone who is the champion leadership in making sure our first responders have the tools to serve the city. when it comes to working to identify needs i garner the support for plan for capital improvements, mayor lee gets it done. pub luckwer works has the responsibility of design and construction for 24 projdwreckt jecktd. mayor lee helped shape the capital plan and knows first hand how complex and challenging it can

be to deliver the projects. we thank you for your support and please welcome honorable mayor lee to say a few words. >> thaupg [inaudible] this was managed by public works. he and charles [inaudible] and all the engineers and project managers kept the promise for all of us. let me begin by saying i just did a tour, to a wond rbful place, a complicated project. i'm here briefly this morning because i'm here to replace [inaudible] as i was told. anyway, to our former chiefs, to our former mayors, to our protocol office, by the way you can't get into this building unless tom [inaudible] says yes. our art director and

director of emergency management is here rightly so. the office of civic investment is infruc sureture is here. we are all here and welcome everyone to mission day san francisco. . this was a very carefully chosen site for the very reason we had to assemble a number of different functions on the site. a complicated project from the start. fire station, arson station, police station, police headquarters. a very historically refurbished community room for all the residence to cherish. supervisor kim played a great part and want to thank her office for being here joining all our supervisors and president breed, we all worked together to make sure when we

promised the entire public of san francisco that we would begin by making sure our first respondsers were out of unsafe buildings and in, i remember when chief gasstone was in on the design of the building and may great contribution to this. now he is in another building challenging us to do something else and that is good because we'll get it done. we have to. we have to, dont we? yeah. just because it is inch a different world doesn't make the story go away. when you look at all o of the effort put into this and of course very serious financial couldn't pugzs and contribution and particularly the approval of the voters they said yes and make sure our first responders

are there for us. i begin with a they think for the men and women in the police department, fire department, in the commissions and on the city and county of san francisco to say thank you thank you thank you for what you do every day for the city and as we hear the statistics about the next 25 years the big one may be coming, we have what the voters asked us to do is say let's get the first responders in so they can can help save us and this is what we have done in the complex build{division for first respond aers for the sit a. it is a tribute to the role in the city that we do this today. i want to congrtulation the police and fire commission and department of emergency management for pets this together and having dpw play a great role managing the role

of [inaudible] i want to give a special thank tooz willy brown because his vision way back then on a old railroad site called mission bay and said we can do something with that. i said you are taking away my dribeing arrange and he said yes, but i'll give you the pgatour in exchange. so i accepted that. that vision carried out then by gaven nuse nl with stem cell research and now with my administration and all the people that work for us, today is great celebration of thatd vision now put into the implementation getting it done for the public. all of you got to see this incredible building and i begin by saying thank you to the arts

commission. tom, and the artist and commission, i want to say thank you because you wrauck in and are immediately presented with a incredible honor of the spiral dedication and then the wall. before you get there you have the first responders applausee aand plaza and i know chief [inaudible] is proud of a big bell. she is hanging that bell over [inaudible] as much as she can, but we are all together here and we are all saying this is of course a place everyone will really feel good about working and it is what i know it to be that it is a safe building, it is is one that is equip with the finest epiidated equipment. whenia see the fire station here that has the

latest not just doors but the type of change out rooms president breed that when you are on the fire commission you demanded it have because we know and have learned with our fire unions leadship and the fireman you have geet all this poisonous stuff off their clothes and have the moden station represent that. hopefully that is the standsered for every fire station in the city going forward chblt for the chief of police i know he is honored because he gets to see the water and great ball park while he responds and e-mails me back. but i know he is personally honored with this because i think he understand too that thish is a a tribute not to just him and the haufs but the entire police force that by the way we will get the

full force in the next couple years, so you won't be denied that full force. we also did not demolish this building. a lot of people said why is that in the way? today? t isn't in the way, it is comp lmentary to the history of this city. thank tooz ocii and the fire department, this used to be station 30 and we kept it as part of history and kept and refleshed it for community based use. i know this is going tobe a extremely important part of it because the community wants to be engaged with our police and fire department. every neighborhood wants to be engaged with the police and fire department. not that we work in isolated roles. it is the purpose of the city to engage all the residence in the best way quee and when we have great designers like our

designers here, great contractors like [inaudible] working with cap narrow and his folks, we dephrineed appropriate ly everything we need to get done here so we can reassure when we place the bonds before the public, not only do they get what they wanted, but the high quality it derv d serves. this continues as mohammed said a promise we made to the public. by the way, do you know this is all done without raising property taxes in san francisco and that is a great tribute to the 10 year capital plan that naomi continues and all the administrators continue to do. it is part of the easter bond and earthquake seft and maerns response bunds, but thauls capital plan. we do this professionally and get it done

on time so we can show case public money investment so it is a better place to work and public to engage in and more services are done for this brand new arena of mission bay, but the entire city as well. we'll continue honoring our city with more bonds in the future, with more investments whether they be through ocii or housing going up to the the incredible innovation of uc san francisco and also a stones through away is the development next door on [inaudible] and of course the nba champions, the warriors will be here soon. so, all of this is to say that if we work together and we make sure that we collaborate as much as we can in the city, we'll have a better result and not only greater buildings, but places for people are honored

for the roll they have in the city and where they work and i i hope every fire and police station will recognize this. every neighborhood will be touched by this because this center will be the center here not only for next 50 years, as soon as repair the [inaudible] it will be another 7 5 years to be here and make sure we have this building as a tribute so george can know we have our eyes on the rest of the building. around the corner is the medical examiner is next. the courts we have to deal with that tofemerary jail cell squz da's office has to have a place so the hall of justice isn't a threatening place to be, it is a place justice can be conducted. a special thank tooz all the member thofz board of supervisors to working collaborative and all the advantageous aejss and to the the public i say thank youism

thong for having the hope in our administration and government and carry forward with the chief. the story will continue and carry out these promise squz make sure we honor the men and women who serve on a every day basis. thank you everyone for celebrating [inaudible] >> thank you mayor lee. copal more people i need to recognize sitting in front of me. chief of protocol [inaudible] police commissioner joe marshal. hand for him. neighbor to the new buildinger, jack bear from the giants is here. we have a few department heads, [inaudible] hr director. tom hewy from the department of building inspection and tiffany [inaudible] from the office of infrastructure and

improvement. is that right? >> next i would thrike introduce the president of the board of supervisors. we are glad she could be here to make opening remark jz she is also the chair on the capital planning committee. welcome supervisor london breed >> thank you. thank you everyone for being here. we have really come a long way from 850 bryant street. when i walk in the hall of 850 bryant i have a frowni mine street. the gray and boringness. the place is falling apart and there is work to be done to protect our city assets. now we have this incredible facility i'm sure every police office in san francisco will have a fwrig smile on their

face especially the command staff and the chief who spends so much time in the community probably won't come to the xhounty anymore because he'll be here all day in his office. hopefully we'll see you. this is incredible and what the public asceltsicide look like. we should make sure we are building new buildings and preserving the history of san francisco in this way all over san francisco. i'm so proceed that this building is opening and it is going to set the example for the way that we need to make sure that our public spaces are made available to the people who work fwr fr the city and citizens who expect good service and this building is a testament to that. a lot of collaboration went into it to make it possible and hope to get a great product out of the men and women when are lucky enough to be in the facility.

heck, i may move my office down here. scoot over arson task force. this is pretty amazing and i'm happy to be here. this is the start of a incredible partnership that should have existed many years ago between the fire department and the police department, the work that the arson task force with the police and fire department, the work they need to do, they can work together in this facility. just the connection, the collaboration that comes out of this. we are going to change the way that we bring departments together moving forward in the future so we can get these investigation done and can do the publics work. i'm proud just to be a part of this and serve on the capital team to get a lot of the buildsings in san francisco redone. yes, we have challenges ahead, but this gives great hope we are prepared to meet those challenges. thank you all so much for being here and looking

forward to spending a lot more time in this place. thank you. >> thank you london. in the crowd i should acknowledge carla johnson director for mayors office of disability and [inaudible] i see from the department of emergency management. john updike i see you from from the real estate department and joyce hicks from the department of citizen complaints. please, a hand for them too. supervisor kim who represents the mission bay neighborhood and helped usher low the project was not able to attend today but truly wanted to be here. i think she sin new york or somewhere and wanted to extends her appreciation and support for the project and saying a few words on behalf of her is her

aid district 6 [inaudible] >> morning everybody's. thank you so much for having me. director neuro. i was told there might actually be action in the street today so thank you for saving until the end. yes, supervisor kim wanted to be here today. this is a very important project for her but also the residents in district 6. the relocation of the southern police station to mission bay recognizes the changing face of this particular neighborhood and the vital roll mission bay plays in growing the city from the thousands of units of housing 28 are affordable to the 30 thousand new jobs being constructed through development projects in the district. a new home for the golding state woriers