The document provides recommendations for preparing for and responding to an earthquake. It advises making an emergency plan and participating in drills at home or work. During an earthquake, it recommends staying away from windows and falling objects, moving to an open area if outside, and evacuating safely once shaking stops without using elevators. After an earthquake, it advises against using matches, candles or flames as fires could start, staying updated by radio, and not touching downed power lines.
The document provides recommendations for preparing for and responding to an earthquake. It advises making an emergency plan and participating in drills at home or work. During an earthquake, it recommends staying away from windows and falling objects, moving to an open area if outside, and evacuating safely once shaking stops without using elevators. After an earthquake, it advises against using matches, candles or flames as fires could start, staying updated by radio, and not touching downed power lines.
The document provides recommendations for preparing for and responding to an earthquake. It advises making an emergency plan and participating in drills at home or work. During an earthquake, it recommends staying away from windows and falling objects, moving to an open area if outside, and evacuating safely once shaking stops without using elevators. After an earthquake, it advises against using matches, candles or flames as fires could start, staying updated by radio, and not touching downed power lines.
-Make an Earthquake emergency plan at your house or workplace. FOR A NATURAL -Participate in disaster drills and the evacuation procedure. DISASTER! -Get ready your emergency backpack. -Remove items that hang on the wall.
What to do during an Earthquake?
- Stay away from windows and objects that can fall and stay calm and alert. - If outside, you need to move to an open area, but, stay out damaged buldings. It can collapse. -Evacuate as soon as the shaking stops, take the safest way out. -Don't use the elevator during the earthquake. It can be dangerous.
What to do after an Earthquake?
-Don't use marches, candles, or any flames. You can make a fire. Authors: -Be updates. Monitor the situation from the radio. -Don' t touch power lines that have fallen. Rayo Dayanna -Tune in to the radio to find out about the emergency measures adopted. De La Cruz Luciana Fuentes Michelle WHAT IS AN EARTHQUAKE?
An earthquake is a sudden and
rapid shaking of the ground caused by the displacement of underground rocks far below the surface of the earth. Earthquakes can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides, or avalanches.
INTRODUCTION
When something in natural, it comes
from nature, and it si not man-made. Natural disasters can be combined the two terms and define them as catastrophes that occur in nature or by natural processes. They are not man- made.