WHAT TO DO BEFORE AN EARTHQUAKE
pagina5-2.jpg (11505 byte) If you live in a seismic zone, you must know how your house is built and if you are going to buy one, you have to make sure it’s earthquake – proof.

If it is not, you have to make the appropriate changes.

AT HOME:

  • You should have a battery radio, an electric torch and a first – aid kit. Every member of the family should know where this objects are kept. You should have some batteries
  • You should know the basic needs of first – aid.
  • You should know where the central switches for gas, water and electricity are. All the members of the family must know how to switch them off.
  • Don’t keep heavy objects on tall shelves, fix both the furniture and the boilers well to the walls. Keep the numbers for the ambulance, the doctors and the firemen next to the telephone.

AT SCHOOL:

  • Teachers etc…should talk with students about the seismic safety in the classrooms.
  • Make sure an emergency plan has been arranged.

AT WORK:

  • Check that the office has arranged an emergency plan.
 
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