http://cbs5.com/specialreports/local...249213006.html



"I think it's fair to say that there are very few people that are focusing on earthquakes and certainly very few people who are focusing on it full time," Tubbesing said. "It's terribly disturbing,"

Tubbesing says the pleas for funding from her organization, which focuses on reducing earthquake risk, seem to be falling on deaf ears in Washington.

"We've never been able to get that message through to the Department of Homeland Security. The funding has systematically gone into terrorism and away from natural disasters," she said.

In fact, she says in the West Coast region -- covering the Bay Area -- the number of federal specialists dealing with earthquakes is a simple number: just one.

"I think it's terrible. I think it's a travesty," Tubbesing said.

 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

saw the author on the daily show, he made a few compelling arguments..