What is Good Storage?

[mklotz]

I wonder what the Mythbuster's shop would look like after a major earthquake ;-)

Yes, and their shop is located near San Francisco. Remember the damage the Loma Prieta temblor caused?

Living in a quake zone myself, I take a fatalistic view. No point in worrying about the shop in a big one; there will be far more important damage to worry about. Small quakes are a different thing. They can do a lot of damage by knocking things off shelves, out of overhead storage, etc. There are precautions one can take to minimize this sort of damage and that effort is labor cost effective. Tilting shelves back toward the wall a few degrees can save a lot of grief. Put the heavy stuff and liquid containers near the floor, etc..

We got thoroughly shaken during the Northridge tremor. The water heater (mounted in a shed outside the house) tore its earthquake restraint loose from the house and sheared the cold water inlet but the shop suffered no damage rather some unintended rearrangements that were soon put right.