So, 110 years later, how much better prepared are we?

One positive outcome from California’s lengthy history of earthquakes up and down the state, says geologist Dr. Jane Nielson,  has been a heightened understanding of how best to construct homes and other buildings to withstand the stresses from a seismic event.

  Earthquake faults and their associated hazard zones are typically shown as lines on maps. But Nielson says that’s an oversimplification.

Dr. Jane Nielson’s presentation is tomorrow evening at 6 pm in the Sebastopol Grange. Click here for event details. Her talk is the most recent in the Kortum Legacy Speaker series, presented by Sonoma County Conservation Action's Fund for Education.

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