BEFORE DURING

- Make sure you have a fire

OUTDOORS
extinguisher, first aid kit, a
battery-powered radio, a INDOORS
flashlight, and extra batteries at Stay inside Stay outside
home. Stand against a Stay in the
- Learn first aid. wall near the open away
- Make up a plan of where to center of the from power
building, stand
meet your family after an lines or
in a doorway, or
earthquake. crawl under anything that
- Don't leave heavy objects on heavy furniture might fall
shelves Stay away from Stay away
windows and from buildings
- Learn the earthquake plan at
What To Do
outside doors
your school or workplace.
- Stay calm!
AFTER
- Check yourself and others for
Before, During and After the
injuries
- Check water, gas, and electric lines Earthquake
for damage.
-Turn on the radio. Don't use the
phone unless it's an emergency.
- Stay out of damaged buildings
- Be careful around broken glass and
debris
- Be careful of chimneys
- Stay away from beaches Name of the Project:
- Stay away from damaged areas
- If you're at school or work, follow “READY than REMEDY”
the emergency plan or the
instructions of the person in charge
- Expect aftershocks This project aims to raise relevance of
the knowledge of the readers to such
disasters like earthquake. Given that
Kenichi Kurashima it is a natural phenomenon, it comes
••• unpredictable and to lessen the harm
Grade 11 - Hydrogen and effects of that, People should be
•••
General Mathematics eye-opened to the possible things
••• that we should do before, during, and
Submitted to: after an earthquake. It’s always better
••• to be READY than having harmful
Mrs. Alma Ramos effects and find REMEDY.
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REMEDY
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you should be more
observant to the things ss is the Why is it IMPORTANT
around you. You must to be PREPARED before
be more considerate and only way an earthquake?
wiser for their
corresponding places. we can People also can reduce the impact of
You must also have first disasters (flood proofing, elevating a home
aid kit and be aware to combat a or moving a home out of harm's way, and
securing items that could shake loose in
the evacuation centers
and emergency numbers. natural an earthquake) and sometimes avoid the
danger completely.

disaster.
The Richter magnitude scale
During an earthquake, (often shortened to Richter
it is so important to stay scale) is the most common
standard of measurement for
calm. Don’t panic, it earthquakes. It was invented in
1935 by Charles F. Richter of
won’t help and makes the California Institute of
the things worse. Just Technology as a mathematical
device to compare the size of
follow the right things to earthquakes. The Richter scale
is used to rate the magnitude of
do and relax. Drop. an earthquake, that is the
Cover. Hold. amount of energy released
during an earthquake.

After an earthquake,
check the things that
could bring harm if
damaged. Check your
family if who was injured.
Stay alert and expect
some aftershocks.