Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill
During a “Drop, Cover and Hold On” drill after a simulated magnitude 6.7 earthquake, Biola University junior Cameron Campbell is carried out of a building by rescue personnel. The exercise was part of the Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill, held nationwide. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Biola University Community Emergency Response Team members search a building for possible “victims” during the Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Third-year nursing students at Biola University help tend to earthquake “victims” who were brought out by rescue personnel and placed on color-coded tarps during the Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)
Pasadena Christian School participated for the fourth straight year in the Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill. A color-coded triage unit was set up on the school’s basketball courts, where they could safely tend to students’ “injuries.” (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Glory Okeke, a sixth-grade teacher at Pasadena Christian School, tends to student John Brow, 11, who feigned having a laceration to his head. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Pasadena Christian School sixth-graders take cover under their desks at the beginning of the Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill, which got underway nationwide at 10:16 a.m. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Mary Williams, a fifth-grade instructor at Pasadena Christian School, helps students find where they are supposed to be during the Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
