{"id":8177,"date":"2025-10-16T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8177\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:02:09","slug":"millions-to-join-earthquake-drill-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8177\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions to join earthquake drill on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTHE EVENT IS FREE. THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO COME. ALSO HAPPENING TODAY. MILLIONS OF CALIFORNIANS WILL DROP, COVER AND HOLD ON. IT\u2019S THE GREAT CALIFORNIA SHAKEOUT. FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND BUSINESSES WILL BE PART OF THIS DRILL. IT\u2019S IN JUST ALMOST AN HOUR OR SO. AT 1016 EXACTLY THIS MORNING THEY WILL PRACTICE WHAT TO DO DURING AN EARTHQUAKE. 10.4 MILLION PEOPLE ARE REGISTERED ACROSS THE STATE TO TAKE PART. AND IN ABOUT AN HOUR, SACRAMENTO COUNTY RESIDENTS MIGHT GET AN EMERGENCY ALERT NOTIFICATION. NO NEED FOR AN ALARM, THOUGH. IT IS PART OF THE COUNTY\u2019S ANNUAL MASS EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM TEST. SO AT 1016 THIS MORNING, THOSE NOTIFICATIONS WILL BE SENT TO PEOPLE THAT ARE SIGNED UP FOR SACRAMENTO ALERT. IT\u2019S THE 10TH YEAR THE COUNTY HAS DONE THIS TEST TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS WORKING PROPERLY, JUST IN CASE OF\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

2025 Great California ShakeOut: Millions to join earthquake drill on Thursday<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 9:37 AM PDT Oct 16, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMillions of Californians will participate in the “Great California ShakeOut” earthquake drill on Thursday, practicing what to do during an earthquake at 10:16 a.m.Families, schools, government agencies, and businesses will be part of the drill, with 10.4 million people registered across the state to take part. Learn more about the ShakeOut drill here. Sacramento County residents might also receive an emergency alert notification, as part of the county’s annual mass emergency notification system test.| RELATED | ShakeOut Tour brings 7.0 earthquake simulator to UC Davis as statewide drill nearsSee more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Millions of Californians will participate in the “Great California ShakeOut” earthquake drill on Thursday, practicing what to do during an earthquake at 10:16 a.m.<\/p>\n

Families, schools, government agencies, and businesses will be part of the drill, with 10.4 million people registered across the state to take part. <\/p>\n

Learn more about the ShakeOut drill here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Sacramento County residents might also receive an emergency alert notification, as part of the county’s annual mass emergency notification system test.<\/p>\n

| RELATED | ShakeOut Tour brings 7.0 earthquake simulator to UC Davis as statewide drill nears<\/a><\/p>\n

See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE EVENT IS FREE. THE PUBLIC IS WELCOME TO COME. ALSO HAPPENING TODAY. MILLIONS OF CALIFORNIANS WILL DROP,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8231,2820,7,9,8,8226,4488,2950,8230,2951,8189,671,1459,4265,8227,8228,669,2429,2734,8229],"class_list":["post-8177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-a-m-families","tag-app","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-shakeout","tag-californians","tag-earthquake-drill","tag-government-agency","tag-great-california-shakeout","tag-million","tag-more-coverage","tag-part","tag-school","tag-shakeout","tag-statewide-drill","tag-subscribe","tag-thursday","tag-top-california-story","tag-uc-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}