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• Make sure you have a fire
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extinguisher, first aid kit, a battery-
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powered radio, a flashlight, and
extra batteries at home.
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• Learn first aid o Ca
• Learn how to turn off the gas,
water, and electricity. M
• Make up a plan where to meet your
family after an earthquake.
• Don’t leave heavy objects on
shelves (they’ll fall during a quake).
• Anchor heavy furniture, cupboards,
and appliances to the walls or floor.
• Learn the earthquake plan at your
school or workplace.
By ; Jaren Karl B. Mainit
BSME-1B
 What is earthquake?
An earthquake is a weak to violent
shacking of the ground produced by
the sudden movement of rock
materials below the earths surface.
The earthquake originates in tectonic
plate boundary.
What is the greatest risk
during an earthquake
The primary earthquake hazard is
surface rupture. It can be caused by
vertical or horizontal movement on
either side of a rupture fault. Ground
displacement, which can affect large
land areas, can produce severe
damage to structures, roads, railways ,
and pipelines.
What to do “DURING” an What to do “AFTER” an
earthquake earthquake
• Check yourself and others for
• STAY CALM! If you’re indoor, stay
injuries. Provide first aid for
inside. If you’re outside, stay outside.
anyone who needs it.
• If you’re indoors, stand against a wall
• Check water, gas, electric lines for
near the center of the building, stand
damage. If any are damage shut off
in a doorway, or crawl under heavy
the valves check for the smell of
furniture (a desktop or table) stay
gas. If you smell it open all
away from windows and outside
windows and doors, leave
doors). Do the Drop Cover and Hold.
mediately, and report it to the
• If you’re outside, stay in the open
authorities.
away from powerlines or anything
• Turn on the radio, don’t use the
that might fall. Stay away from
phone unless its an emergency.
buildings (stuffs might fall off the
• Stay out of damage buildings.
building or the building could fall on
• Be careful around Brocken glasses
you.
and debris. Were boots to keep
• Don’t use matches, candles, or any
from cutting your feet.
flames, broken gas lines and fire
• Stay away tribraches. Tsunami and
don’t mix.
seiches sometimes hit after the
• If you are in the car, stop the car and
ground has stopped shaking.
stay inside the car until the
• Stay away from damage areas.
earthquake stops.
• Follow the emergency plan or the
• Don’t use elevators they might
instruction of the person in charge
shutdown.