Los Angeles residents participate in annual earthquake drill
Up and down the U.S. West Coast, the ShakeOut drill began with a test alert from the region’s ShakeAlert earthquake warning system.
























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A worker practices "drop, cover, and hold on" under a conveyor belt as boxes fall during a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19. Up and down the West Coast, the ShakeOut drill was scheduled to begin at 10:19 a.m. PDT with a cellphone-rattling test alert from the region's ShakeAlert earthquake warning system.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Workers participate "drop, cover, and hold on" at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles Food Bank custodian Maria Recinos is found safe by her team members as they practice a "drop, cover, and hold on" simulation at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Workers practice "drop, cover, and hold on" at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People participate at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19,ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles Food Bank custodian Maria Recinos practices "drop, cover, and hold on" at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles Food Bank custodian Maria Recinos, left, is found "safe" by a team member looking for people left behind inside the building, as they practice a "drop, cover, and hold on" simulation at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Workers evacuate a sharehouse as they participate on a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People participate at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Workers practice "drop, cover, and hold on" during an after shock simulation at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
KTLA-5 television reporter Annie Rose Ramos, right, reports from inside the Big Shaker, the world's biggest mobile earthquake simulator as her cameraman tries to record a video during the ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.ASSOCIATED PRESS
KTLA-5 television reporter Annie Rose Ramos, right, holds on to a table inside the Big Shaker, the world's biggest mobile earthquake simulator as her cameraman tries to record a video during the ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19.