By Derrick Miller

The City of Duncan’s Emergency Management Team will be participating in a regional earthquake
drill that will include 14 states. The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut is scheduled for 10:17 a.m. on Oct. 17.
According to a post on the City of Duncan’s Facebook page, “Our Emergency Management team will be joining The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut multistate earthquake drill event and residents can join in by practicing your earthquake drill. “At 10:17 a.m. local time on October 17th, we encourage residents to join more than a million people across the Central U.S. in practicing earthquake safety.”
Aside from Oklahoma, other states set to participate in the regional drill include Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Tennessee.
According to the ShakeOut website, about 1.8 million people are currently registered to participate in
the drill. About 2.4 people participated in the drill last year.
Oklahoma currently has 34,582 people registered to participate in the drill.