Tips for survival in case of an earthquake:
Extract from article by Doug Copp on “Triangle of Life”, edited by Larry Linn. ‘My name is Doug Copp. I head for disaster rescue and manager of American International Rescue Team (ARTI), the most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake ”
COPPA DOUGG advises:
1) Avoid hide under objects, furniture, cars are plummeting while the buildings (there are likely to fail than those objects)
2) Dogs, cats and young children are sometimes naturally curled in fetal position. And you should do so in an earthquake. It is a natural survival instinct. You can survive in an empty bed. Go near an object, next to a couch, near a large and bulky object that will compress in some
measurement, but will leave a void next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest building an earthquake happen. The reason is simple: the wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building that collapses, are set high goals for survival. Also, wooden buildings have less weight may be concentrated
collapse. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks.
4) If you are in bed at night and an earthquake occurs, simply rolls up out of bed. A security vacuum will exist around the bed. Hotels may get a higher survival rate in earthquakes, if you put a sign on the back door of every room, telling occupants to lie them on the floor near the bed during an earthquake.
5) If an earthquake occurs while watching TV and you can not easily escape leaving the window or door, then lie down and Crouch in the fetal position, near the sofa or a large object.
6) All that is put under the door of the building to pieces when an entry may be victims. If you sit under a door to an entrance door and door frame falls forward or backward, can be hurt by the ceiling above. If the pen falls in parts, will be hurt by the entry door.
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different frequency point (the swing separately from the main building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until the collapse occurs stairs. Even if the building is not crumbling, not walk the stairs. The stairs are the expected part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, it could collapse later,
you could be crowded with people. It should always be checked even if the rest of the building is not damaged.
Go near the outer wall or outside their buildings if possible – it is better to be near the outside of a building than inside. The higher estimated inside towards the outside perimeter of the building, with the greater probability that your escape route be blocked.
9) People inside the vehicles are crushed when the road above 9poduri, tunnels) falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; what happened with slabs of highway bridges crossing the Nimit. Victims of the earthquake in San Francisco stayed inside the vehicle. It could easily survive coming out and stretching near their vehicles, says the author. All the crushed cars had holes about 1.5 m near them.
10) I discovered as I land inside a journalism institutions and other institutions with more paper, the paper does not taseaza. Large gaps are found around piles of paper.
I hope these tips will be useful and go well over the earthquake that knocks on the door.
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