Everyone, everywhere, should know how to protect themselves in an earthquake. Even if earthquakes are rare where you live, they may happen where you or your family travel.

Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are an annual opportunity for people in homes, schools, and organizations to practice what to do during earthquakes, and to improve preparedness.

Most participants are in one of the Official ShakeOut Regions shown below. People and organizations in other states or countries can also register to be included.

To register or learn more, click a map below or choose from this list:

All current ShakeOut drills shown below will be held on 10/15/2015 unless specified.

REGION		CURRENT DRILL (as of today)	PREVIOUS DRILL	REGION		CURRENT DRILL (as of today)	PREVIOUS DRILL
	California		10.4 million		Central U.S. (AL AR IL IN KS KY MO MS OH OK TN)		2.76 million
	Japan	3,955,527 (Various Dates)	2,337,230 (Various Dates)		SouthEast (DC DE FL GA MD NC SC VA WV)		2.19 million
	Washington		1.08 million		Utah	()	834,000 (4/17/2014)
	British Columbia		743,000		Puerto Rico		595,000
	Nevada		571,000		NorthEast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY PA RI VT)		505,000
	Oregon		398,000		Montana		157,000
	Quebec		152,000		Arizona		123,000
	New Mexico		106,000		Alaska		80,000 (10/16/2014)
	Guam		78,000		Idaho		75,000
	Colorado		35,000		Hawaii		30,000
	CNMI		12,000		Southern Italy		12,000
	Wyoming		10,000		Yukon		9,000
	U.S. Virgin Islands		7,000		American Samoa		5,000
	New Zealand	2015: Coming Soon!	()	Other States and Countries			1.1 million

The ShakeOut began in California and has also been organized in many other states and countries. Official ShakeOut Regions require significant local or regional coordination, typically by an emergency management agency or an alliance of many organizations. If you are interested in establishing a ShakeOut drill for your region please contact us. If your state, province, or country is not yet participating you can register yourself or your organization as part of the global participation total.