Are you ready for the next big earthquake in California?

GARDENA, Calif. – Preparing for a natural disaster is a way Cindy Matsuda, a founding member of the Tri-City Community Emergency Response Team, uses to help others. She said it was the 1994 Northridge earthquake that made her realize the need to prepare.

“I was really scared because I thought the building was going to collapse,” Matsuda said.

After taking a 20-hour emergency response team training course, Matsuda said it opened her eyes to what she could do to prepare. That's when she decided to bring the course to her church, Gardena Valley Baptist Church, so others could prepare.

“Having a suitcase not only in my car or in the garage or somewhere like that, but I have something under my bed because in an earthquake the glass will shatter,” she said. “So you have to be able to protect your feet.”

Since then, Matsuda said the Tri-City CERT Association has trained more than 1,000 people including 100 current members in Gardena, Hawthorne, Lawndale and throughout the South Bay. As her team prepares, Bob de Groot of the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Science Center in Pasadena said new upgrades to the ShakeAlert system will better detect the magnitude of the quake using Global Navigation Satellite System and GPS data from ground-based sensors.

“Let's say the earthquake starts near the Salton Sea, and it starts moving along. Our seismic sensors or seismic stations pick up that earthquake and start doing their job. The ShakeAlert system is activated,” De Groot said. “Then what happens is that “When this earthquake continues to grow, information about this earthquake is updated up to twice a second by the ShakeAlert system, so we can know how big the earthquake is.”

With the thought of another major earthquake in California, Matsuda said it's important to prepare.

“Most people want to get training and want to learn how to do these things, but I think there are other things that come along that distract them like family and different things,” she said. “But we just have to do our part.”

Matsuda noted that Gardena City will host a free Quake Heroes Expo at the Nakaoka Center on August 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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