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Earthquakes are scary. It's not the earthquake itself, it's the aftermath.
The article mentions the 1989 Loma Pireta earthquake. I was living about sixty miles away from the San Francisco / Oakland area, and the earthquake was scary enough. But the next few days were even worse. We had no phone, no power, and no transportation for three days. People do not think about this - You have nothing without power. Everything in your fridge goes to shit in hours, you cannot go to the store (no power means no stores) and you cannot even leave the area - downed power lines and you cannot buy gas.
Since then I've learned to keep a lot canned goods on hand, and lots of extra water and even fuel.
It doesn't even have to be an earthquake. Once power out for an entire day in Northern California, and a few years back most of my hometown here was evacuated because of a train fire. In Phoenix years ago there was a fuel shortage - a single pipeline that supplies most of the Phoenix area had a leak and was shut down and suddenly there was no gas to be found.
Be prepared ladies.
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