Earthquake

How to survive an earthquake - Guide for children and youth

Earthquake Safety

If you are indoors

1. Drop, cover and hold on. Get under a table or bench, hold on to one of legs and close your eyes.

2. If there is no table or desk, sit against a wall away from things that might fall on you and away from windows, bookcases or tall, heavy furniture.

3. Wait in your safety spot until the shaking stops and check to see if you are hurt. Check others around you too. More carefully and look our for fallen things.

4. There may be aftershocks - smaller earthquakes quiet soon after - so be prepared to return to safety spot.

5. Be on the lookout for fires. Even if there isn't a fire, alarms and sprinklers may go off! If you have to leave the building after the shaking stops, use the statirs - Never use lifts!

Earthquake Destruction




If you are outside:
IF you are outside... stay outside and move away from buildings, tree, lights and power lines. Crouch down and cover your head!

Chaos in Haiti as huge earthquake hits island

Hundreds are feared dead in Haiti after the strongest earthquake to hit the country in over two hundred years.

The island, considered the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is said to be suffering 'a catastrophe of major proportions.' Tens of thousands of people are now homeless after 7.0 magnitude quake and the Presidential Palace and the UN headquarters are in ruins. There's been a united plea for international aid and hundreds or even thousands are estimated to have died in the tragedy.




You see more...

• How to survive an earthquake - Guide for children and youth
• Earthquakes — an educational booklet by Kaye M. Shedlock & Louis C. Pakiser
• The Severity of an Earthquake
• USGS Earthquake FAQs
• IRIS Seismic Monitor - maps all earthquakes in the past five years.
• Latest Earthquakes in the World - maps all earthquakes in the past week.
• Earthquake Information from the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Geo.Mtu.Edu — How to locate an earthquake's epicenter
• Photos/images of historic earthquakes
• earthquakecountry.info Answers to FAQs about Earthquakes and Earthquake Preparedness
• Interactive guide: Earthquakes - an educational presentation by Guardian Unlimited
• Geowall — an educational 3D presentation system for looking at and understanding earthquake data
• Virtual Earthquake - educational site explaining how epicenters are located and magnitude is determined
• CBC Digital Archives — Canada's Earthquakes and Tsunamis
• Earthquakes Educational Resources - dmoz
• USGS: Earthquakes for Kids

And more...

• Reports on China Sichuan earthquake 12/05/2008
• Kashmir Relief & Development Foundation (KRDF)
• PBS NewsHour - Predicting Earthquakes
• USGS – Largest earthquakes in the world since 1900
• The Destruction of Earthquakes - a list of the worst earthquakes ever recorded
• Los Angeles Earthquakes plotted on a Google map
• the EM-DAT International Disaster Database
• Earthquake Newspaper Articles Archive
• Earth-quake.org
• PetQuake.org- official PETSAAF system which relies on strange or atypical animal behavior to predict earthquakes.
• A series of earthquakes in southern Italy - 23 November 1980, Gesualdo
• Recent Quakes WorldWide
• Real-time earthquakes on Google Map, Australia and rest of the world
• Earthquake Information - detailed statistics and integrated with Google Maps and Google Earth
• Kharita - INGV portal for Digital Cartography - Last earthquakes recorded by INGV Italian Network (with Google Maps)
• Kharita - INGV portal for Digital Cartography - Italian Seismicity by region 1981-2006 (with Google Maps)
• Interactive world map, showing recent earthquakes (day/week/month) – Quake-Catcher Network, BOINC