Earthquake Damage in Vaults August 23, 2011 The brittle nature of concrete and brick are often the subject displayed in post- earthquake photos. Depending on your frame of reference, August 24th is a day of relief or a day of clean up. Some of the pundits jokingly refer to the earthquake as having occurred on the well known "Bush's Fault Line" — but these same writers ran out of their offices and news stations in full panic just before 2:00 PM along with Federal workers. Reporters quickly searched out the infamous concrete block walls that routinely develop large cracks or in some cases collapse when exposed to rumbling earthquakes. The rigid building material simply does not do well with the 10,000 mile per hour earthquake shock waves so they make excellent photos for page one of the newspaper and the evening news. So here we are in late August closing bridges and overpasses to assess the damage. Airports closed down and trains stopped running as experts tried to determine what to do in an earthquake. As one blogger wrote: "I was so confused. I broke out my own front window, grabbed my big screen TV and ran out on the front lawn! Can you blame me? I was confused!" What you should see in the headlines is "FIRELOCK Fireproof Vaults once again withstood the local earthquakes and experienced no damage!" So Wednesday, August 24th is just another day for the 1,700 businesses that selected FIRELOCK for their vital records protection. Nuclear Power sites, U.S. Defense Department sites and Health Organizations functioned normally because the FIRELOCK Vaults carry a Zone IV Certification. In the offsite media storage industry 85 different service providers with millions and millions of tape back up stored in these vaults had another uneventful day! FIRELOCK Fireproof Modular Vaults of Kutztown, PA is the world's largest provider of Class 125 Media Storage Vaults. The vaults are magnetically shielded to protect computer media and servers and are structurally designed to survive a fire, earthquakes while providing a perfectly controlled environment for the vital media and servers within the chambers.