San Francisco Bay Area Emergency Resources

Below are Emergency resources I have discovered & compiled for myself. Living through a natural disaster sucks. When a disaster occurs, knowing what is happening in your environment, finding relatively safe escape routes, and knowing where to seek help makes a big difference. Knowledge is a resource in and of itself. 

Pack a Go Bag - your 72-hour emergency basic survival kit to grab if you have to run

• Appreciating Earth emergency Go Bag packing list & immediate threat action list

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Know what disasters you should prepare, how to prepare & how to react

• Mapping America's wicked weather and natural disasters

• Cal OES My Hazards

• Sonoma County Emergency & Preparedness Information

• Emergency & Disaster Information Service

• Association of Bay Area Governments Resilience Program

• ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) interactive landslide map

• California Geological Survey: earthquake, tsunami, & landslide info & map

• Ready.gov

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Power outages (planned or unplanned) are associated with every disaster

• Sonoma County Power Shut Off Map: PG&E, CHP & CalTrans info

• PG&E Critical Power Outage Map

• PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff Map & Address Search

• PG&E Rotating Outage Map

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​Wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area (some websites are nationwide)

• USA Active fire map: fire perimeters & active burn areas

• *Fire in California: Fire activity map, air quality, evacuation & safe

• *Sonoma County Hazard & Evacuation Map

• California Fire Map & Tracker: active burns & containment levels

• *NCF WiFire: active fire perimeters, wildfire alert cameras, historical fires

• *Alert Wildfire: North Bay California wildfire cameras

• CalFire Incidents Map

• ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) Wildfire hazards map

• ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) Wildfire hazards web map

• Fire Safe Sonoma: Planning & Education

• Firewise USA: planning, preparation & resources

• National Fire Protection Association

• National Weather Service Fire Weather Map

• Purple Air: national air quality map

• Air Now: national air quality map

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Droughts & Flooding in the San Francisco Bay Area

• Droughts & Current Sonoma County Water Supplies

• Water Watch: Flood & droughts monitor map

• FloodFactor: Find your home's flood factor

• ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) interactive flooding map

• ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) interactive tsunami hazard map

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Earthquakes

• My Shake: CA earthquake early warning system app - get this NOW

• Why apps like My Shake are worth it

• USGS interactive recent earthquake map

• USGS Earthquake "Did you feel it?" questionnaire

• USGS earthquake hazards

• USGS National Seismic Hazard map

• ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) Earthquake hazards map**

• Learning from San Francisco Bay Area 1868 Hayward Fault earthquakes

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US West Coasts Volcanic Eruptions

• USGS California Volcano Observatory

• USGS Volcano Hazards Program

• Alaska Volcano Observatory

• Cascades Volcano Observatory

• Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

• Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program current eruptions

• Smithsonian Global volcanism Program: earthquakes, eruptions & emissions time map

• Mount St Helens volcano monitoring camer

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Communicable Disease Outbreaks: Epidemics & Pandemics

• Sonoma County (+CA + USA + worldwide) COVI-19 map & graphs

• John Hopkins COVI-19 maps & graphs: USA + global

• National Geographic COVID-19 maps & graphs

• ESRI Impact Planning for COVID-19: USA by county

• Google News COVID-19 maps & graphs

• Best materials for making mask

• How different masks compare

• How COVID-19 spreads & where you need to protect yourself most

• How to use heat to kill viruses & bacteria

• How scientists know COVID-19 is more deadly than influenza

• COVID-19 compared to other pandemics

• Visualizing the history of pandemics