Get ready – Thursday is training for a big earthquake

California is one of several states preparing to participate in the Great ShakeOut Earthquake drill Thursday, an effort that helps raise public awareness of what to do when an earthquake strikes.

According to the USGS, participants will be trained in “fall, cover and hold” and other safety procedures for posting during an earthquake. Most of the exercises will take place at 10:20 a.m. local time across the country, and people will receive alerts on their mobile devices. More than 44.1 million people around the world are set to participate in the event, according to shakeout.org data.

The USGS website shows that 9.4 million participants registered for this year’s Great ShakeOut across California, surpassing 7.6 million participants last year. The total includes nearly 1.4 million participants in the Gulf region.

Among the participants will be BART, which said it will use the exercises to test emergency response systems. At 10:20 a.m., BART personnel will turn on their ShakeAlert system, and trains will automatically slow to 27 mph before stopping briefly. BART will also encourage riders to prepare for future earthquakes during a public system-wide announcement.

New earthquake preparedness tools were developed after the Loma Prieta earthquake, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter near Santa Cruz that wreaked havoc in the Bay Area on October 17, 1989. 63 people were killed and more than 3,500 injured. The accident was one of the most devastating seismic disasters in US history, according to the US Geological Survey.

The earthquake also prompted the development of the ShakeAlert system, which can detect significant seismic motion and estimate the location, magnitude and extent of any ground shaking. This data is used to deliver alerts to people via one of the many apps they can download to their mobile phone. Alerts give receivers signals to seek safety before major vibrations reach their area.

Before a 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit the Bay Area last month, ShakeAlert notifications helped residents prepare for the first earthquake. People in Vallejo received an 11.4-second warning; San Francisco received a warning of 18.8 seconds and Oakland residents received a warning of 19.2 seconds as the warning system indicated the quake could reach 5.0.

Jordan Parker (he/she) is a San Francisco Chronicle writer. Email: [email protected]. Twitter: @jparkerwrites.

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