everyone in the community for participating in the great shakeout. i don't have everyone's attention, i would love to have it here. thank you so much. so our great shakeout instructs our students and staff on what to do in a real earthquake. it is key to practice and prepare for an actual earthquake. we are honored to have our special

guest here today participating in our great shakeout as well. i would like to introduce our san francisco mayor london breed to talk more about the great shakeout. [ applause ] mayor london breed: first i would like to thank you for letting us join you all. thank you for welcoming me to the classroom. it's great to be back at everett. in fact i was here a couple years ago and it's great to be here with you at the great shakeout. i have a question, how many were alive during the 1989 earthquake? you guys were really alive? in fact i was alive and i was in high school at the time. so i'm not completely sure that you were

alive, but the fact is during that earthquake, it was a very challenging time for our city, but the good news is that we were prepared because the entire time that i grew up in san francisco and went to school like everett. i went to benjamin franklin listen and my brother went to everett and galileo high school and every year we did drills like this. as soon as it happened, we were prepared and we knew what to do. i remember learning about being prepared and going home and telling my grandmother all the things that we needed to do to keep in place so that we can take care of one another just in case an earthquake hit. i want you all to take the information that we had in class and to make sure that you go home and work with your parents to ensure that when an earthquake hits because it's not about if but when. san francisco is earthquake territory. it's

inevitable. i want to be sure that every student at every middle school is prepared for that. can we agree with that? [ cheers and applause ] all right. i'm really excited to be here to really pay attention to preparedness and earthquakes and really bring a number of disaster preparedness people in san francisco. if a disaster hits, the people behind me, most of them, including myself, we are going to be responsible for keeping you all safe. so, thank you so much for allowing us here to talk to you about what we need to do to make sure that everyone is prepared when the big one comes to san francisco. and with that, i would like to introduce the president of the san francisco school board jenny lam. all right. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning, hello everett community. it's so wonderful to

be here with you all this morning. i'm excited to be here to participate in the shakeout. i want to thank the principal and all the educators and staff at everett for hosting us this morning and all the work you do everyday for our students. every year on the initiatives of the big one in 1989, i also was in high school, mayor breed. i still remember that day, that afternoon. i left tennis practice early, and i was in the hallway and the lockers started shaking so loud that i just thought it was a bunch of students running around making a lot of noise. then i quickly knew what had happened and i was alone in that hallway. i was very fortunate to have a school counselor that came out of his office and immediately offered me a ride home because i knew i had someone waiting for me at home and that was my eight year old little sister.

just now i was thinking about the moment i opened the front door and saw her underneath our dining room table and the look on her face. i know many of you are also taking care of your younger siblings. i want to share that story and to know that everyone was safe with my family. what happened this morning? this morning at 10:20, students and staff participated in the drop cover and hold drill. every was in position for 30 seconds. i know it seemed longer when we were squeezed under our desk. after our drill we evacuated into the evacuation area. it's really a reality as mayor breed said. it's not just how but really when the big next earthquake will hit our city.

all of our schools have detailed evacuation plans in case of an emergency, and we encourage all of our students and our families to develop your plans. today you received this postcard to making sure you have a plan. it's so critical to know what to do not only during an earthquake but very much important what we are going to do after an earthquake in terms of keeping safe and taking care of one another. i'm very privileged to having these special people here this morning as they work everyday to keep us safe. i'm going to introduce the emergency manager mary ellen. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning, i'm mary ellen, this fancy title but i am the

master of disaster in san francisco. when something goes wrong, we try to fix things and make them better. you did an incredible job. i would like to say thanks to robert and javier. in this case of earthquakes, you probably know more than most adults. so you all are experts. just like the mayor said, when you go home, we want you to talk to your families and share what you learned so your family and friends are also safe. the other part of my job is i run the 911 center. so you all know the number to call, right? i wanted to say it if something happens, what is the three numbers that you call? >> 911. >> it's 911. good job. anyway, we practice this every

year because we haven't had earthquakes in a really long time, but it could happen at any moment. i want to thank you for doing what you are doing to help our city which is to make sure that you are safe if an earthquake happens. so good job. it was great to meet all of you and remember what you learned today. thanks. [ applause ]

>> >> 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 is r. my name is debra alvarez rodriguez. i'm the deputy director in san francisco. my background is one in which i have spent the entirety of my life committed to finding solution to poverty and addressing the issues of inequity so people and communities can have accesses to resources and financial freedom. one thing true anode dear to my heart was the power of business ownership in creating

pathways to financial freedom. we have still in infancy. we had over 100 entrepreneurs come and start their businesses. some are food trucks. some are restaurants. some are in farmer's markets and so farther. that's an incredible legacy and record to build upon. this was the perfect opportunity for me to come back home, you know, come back to the neighborhood and take my skills and networks and resources and put it backseat in service of the community. given everything with racial reckoning and pandemic it was time for me and everyone else that had the opportunity to leave and get educated to come back home. we have a opportunity to grow our impact in terms of the number of people we serve and how we serve them. we grow our impact in taking

the money we make with our entrepreneurs and circulate those resources back interview the community for community development. the third thing is we have a opportunity to have an impact on public policy in terms of the policies and practices the district has been notorious about interms of inequities. all of those are just the beginning of what is possible in terms of growth and impact. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

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