California Public Resources Code

§ 2800

PRC § 2800 Effective Sep 29, 1985Div. 2 · Ch. 10

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The state’s major metropolitan areas are subject to potentially devastating large magnitude earthquakes and earth scientists estimate that there is a high probability that one or more large earthquakes will occur in California between now and the end of the century.

(b)Loss of life and property damage resulting from a damaging earthquake could be substantially reduced if there existed a reliable short-term earthquake prediction system capable of providing public warning of the size and location of a damaging earthquake within a timeframe of a few weeks to a few hours.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1198, Sec. 1. Effective September 29, 1985.