Sue Graves, a safety coordinator for the Lincoln County School District, told lawmakers that high school students in her district take semester-long classes that teach CPR and other survival techniques in the wake of a giant earthquake.

NPR: Report Makes Chilling Forecast On Northwest Quake

And yet every summer legions of living-dead rock bands from the 1960s and 1970s rise up from their graves and drag their decaying carcasses across the stages of America's arenas, stadiums and county fairs.

FORBES: Dinosaur Rock