People 's reliance on self and the well-known was seen in a variety of disaster types such as the 1953 tornado in Flint-Beecher , Michigan , the 1955 flood of Marysville and Yuba City , California , Hurricane Audrey in 1957 , Hurricane Carla in 1961 , Hurricane Betsy in 1965 , and the 1971 earthquake in San Fernando , California . Both in Mexico City in 1985 and in Turkey in 1999 , thousands of local residents banded together to search for fellow victims in the earthquake wreckage . Neighbors performed more than half of the rescue activities after the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake hit Kobe City , Japan in 1995
1971 earthquake in San Fernando , California
1971 San Fernando earthquake
Human response to disasters