Roundup: Great Southern California ShakeOut at 10 a.m.; Delta expands service to Japan and the world; top travel tech gadgets

Good morning, travelers!

SoCal | Are you all aware of the Great Southern California ShakeOut? At 10 a.m., there will be a “duck, cover and hold on” drill for two minutes. Four thousand people in 12 counties in Southern and Central California will rehearse their emergency responses to a 7.8 earthquake. The program is called the Golden Guardian. Find out more about it in the article “Earthquake Drill Thursday Aims to Make State More Prepared” and learn how to participate at ShakeOut.org. Here are some earthquake preparation tips to go along with the ShakeOut.

Airline news | Delta expands its international profile with service to 15 new international destinations, including Valencia, Spain; Gothenburg, Sweden; Luanda, Angola; Monrovia, Liberia; Nairobi, Kenya; and Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. Japan is also a main focus of the expansion with nonstop flights to Tokyo from Atlanta, New York and Salt Lake City.

Travel Gear | Don’t miss Gadling’s Top 25 travel technology products of 2008. How many of the gadgets do you have?

– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

[Photo: Delta Air Lines jets at airport in Kentucky. Credit: Tom Uhlman/Bloomberg News]

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