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Earthquakes are rough. They come from out of nowhere and can be extremely serious very quickly.

They often lead to other circumstances: fires quickly spring up from broken gas lines and downed power lines.

And they almost never happen one at a time, aftershocks a commonplace and can be even more damaging than the original quake.

Updated December 2025

Learning never ends. If you've managed to read all the other articles on this site, congratulations! It's a lot of information.

But we've only begun to touch the surface of many of the prepping and survival subjects and topics introduced here.

We think the books below are a great addition to your collection.

Some you should keep print copies of, and all you should have on your emergency Kindle/iPad.

Back in the late 1980s, an oral surgeon was in the middle of a two-week raft trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, when disaster struck.

He and two other men were on the bank, getting their 18-foot (5.4-meter) raft ready for a trip down the Crystal Rapids when it got caught in a wave, filled with water and ripped the line from their hands.