Earthquake readiness
A safe spot in each room away from windows, tall or heavy furniture near the beds, and where to find the gas shutoff on site.
What it answers
Section titled “What it answers”- Where should we take cover in each room during an earthquake?
- Is anything tall near the kids’ beds?
For the agent, the tool is described as: Earthquake preparation for one scanned home (Drop, Cover and Hold On): per room, the spot along an inside wall farthest from windows; tall or heavy furniture near each bed from the bedroom panoramas (a checklist when they cannot be read); and an on-site task to find the gas meter shutoff. For Los Angeles households and anyone in an earthquake zone.
Who it is for
Section titled “Who it is for”Los Angeles household preparing for an earthquake.
Inputs
Section titled “Inputs”| Input | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
scan |
string | yes | Scan id. Filled from the selected building. | |
look |
boolean | true |
Read the bedroom panoramas for tall or heavy furniture. Saved preference quake.look. |
An input that nothing fills (the selected building, a saved preference, a persona’s preset) becomes a question to the person. The agent asks only for those.
Data used
Section titled “Data used”| Layer | Id | Needed | If it is missing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wall outline | matterport.walls |
required | The verdict is unknown, with the reason. |
| 360° photos | matterport.panoramas |
optional | a checklist per bedroom |
What it returns
Section titled “What it returns”A tool result: a verdict (pass, warn, fail or unknown), metrics, checks and findings, each with its source.
- Draws on the building: pins on what it found.
- Panel blocks:
VerdictHeader,MetricRow,CheckList,EvidenceStrip,Note,StepLog. - Speed: slow. Read-only.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”Earthquake readiness: a safe spot in each room, tall or heavy things near the beds, and what to check on site.
Reliability
Section titled “Reliability”Sources this tool gave on the test home:
| Where it came from | Layer | Method | Reliability | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measured from the scan | matterport |
geometry |
high | Wall graph: windows and walls shared with another room |
| Seen in a model | model |
vision |
low | Vision model reading the bedroom panoramas |
| Looked up in a model | model |
lookup |
high | Earthquake Country Alliance and ready.gov guidance |
The tool sets the label for each value. A model never does. The tools give a scan’s wall graph the layer matterport whichever device made the scan, so a phone scan’s geometry carries that label too.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- Needs: wall outline. On a scan without it, the verdict is
unknownand says why. - It is slow: progress steps reach the workspace while it runs.
- A result is a planning aid, not an inspection.
On the made-up test home
Section titled “On the made-up test home”This section was written by running the tool when the docs were built, on a hand-made RoomPlan export (no real place was scanned), with no sponsor keys and the network switched off.
Pass Safe spots found in 6 of 6 rooms. Bedrooms get a checklist; the panoramas were not read. The gas shutoff is a job for someone on site.
| Value | Result | Where it came from | Reliability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rooms with a safe spot | 6 | Measured from the scan | high |
| Tall items seen | 0 | Seen in a model | low |
| Check | Measured | Against | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living Room: safe spot, distance to the nearest window | 4.01 | pass | |
| Bedroom 1: safe spot, distance to the nearest window | 3.6 | pass | |
| Bedroom 2: safe spot, distance to the nearest window | 3.6 | pass | |
| Kitchen: safe spot, distance to the nearest window | 2.9 | pass | |
| Bathroom: safe spot, distance to the nearest window | 1.55 | pass | |
| Hallway: safe spot, distance to the nearest window | 2.54 | pass |
Findings: 6 pass, 3 unknown.
What it reported while it ran:
- Finding a safe spot in 6 rooms, along an inside wall and away from windows
Run it
Section titled “Run it”threshold run quake_ready --scan <scan-id>curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8787/api/tools/quake_ready/run -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{...inputs}'Over MCP the tool is named quake_ready. See MCP server and CLI.