• Is Your Home Protected From Earthquake Disaster? A Homeowner's Guide to Earthquake Retrofit, prepared by the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), is an excellent booklet that presents comprehensive information and diagrams on non-structural and structural retrofit projects, as well as other earthquake preparedness advice.
  
  
• Making San Francisco Safe During Emergencies is a policy brief outlining Mayor Newsom's promises and plans to best prepare the City for major emergencies.
  
  
• The Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) Training Program, sponsored by the San Francisco Fire Department. "The goal of this program is to help the residents of San Francisco be self sufficient in a major disaster situation by developing multi-functional teams, cross-trained in basic emergency skills." For more information, visit the NERT Web site or call (415) 970-2022.
  
  
• Planning for a Disaster: Protect Your Pets, from the Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA. Look here for helpful tips on keeping your pet safe during an earthquake, including how to assemble a first aid kit for your cat.
  
  
• The Web site for the San Francisco Office of Emergency Services "provides information, ideas and resources to help you to prepare for, and respond to, a disaster."
  
  
• San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Friendly Plumber's Drinking Water After an Earthquake provides you with questions and answers about the safety of water and post-earthquake drinking-water hazards.
  
  
• Visit the State of California: Earthquake Preparedness and Information Resources Web site for a full range of disaster resources, including a lending library and for-sale videos and publications.
  
  
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program - Northern California is an excellent comprehensive resource for quake information, including safety tips, "Real-time Shaking Maps," and registration for "Earthquake Notification E-mail."