Get ready to drop, cover and hold on! Over 10 million people from California have registered to practice these three steps on Oct. 17, International ShakeOut Day.
According to the ShakeOut website, more than 57 million people worldwide registered—as individuals or with organizations—for the annual event.
“ShakeOut is an annual reminder and practice about how people can protect themselves during earthquakes,” Los Angeles-based Mark Benthien, global coordinator of ShakeOut, told The Epoch Times.
Benthien is also the executive director of Earthquake Country Alliance, which organized the first ShakeOut event as an earthquake drill in Los Angeles in 2008. “We had no idea that it would grow statewide, then across the country, and around the world,” said Benthien in an Oct. 16 statement….