Quake prone cities on West Coast aim to improve countermeasures

https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2017/05/051217TB_Resilience_web.mp3Vulnerability assessments by utilities and emergency planners along the U.S. West Coast suggest it could be weeks or a month or more before water service gets restored after a major earthquake — not to mention electricity, sewage treatment and fuel supply too.
The social and economic disruption does not have to be that bad though, given adequate preparedness and investments in critical infrastructure as dem