How to formulate an earthquake countermeasure plan

What is the impact of a mighty earthquake?

If your soft-story conditions are met, your home has some structure such as foundations, obstructed walls, wall fixation to floor and roof, masonry chimney, garage opening and large window opening etc. It may cause serious damage. On the other hand, damage to unstructured elements and contents is caused by interior partitions, external wall panels, suspended ceilings, electrical and mechanical equipment, ducts, water and gas pipes, water heaters, hangers, furniture, houses electricity, gas, water, sewer, transport system Is most likely to be confused for days, weeks, or months after a strong earthquake. Emergency response organizations and hospitals can not receive excessive assistance and provide immediate assistance. In order to deal with your family during and after the future inevitable earthquake you need to establish, update or maintain your own earthquake countermeasure plan.

What is earthquake countermeasure plan?

Earthquake countermeasures is to know how to set up various disaster plans and how they respond during and after the earthquake before medium to large earthquakes reach your area. The goal is to protect you and your family from destructive earthquakes and to minimize the damage of earthquakes to your home and its contents. Seismic reinforcement and content relaxation are the two main elements of earthquake countermeasures discussed in a separate article. Disaster management and disaster restoration at the time of the earthquake disaster and after the earthquake will be explained in another article. In this article, you will learn the preparation of personal survival kit, household emergency kit including emergency food and water for 2 weeks, financial recovery kit, and other emergency emergency preparation items.

How to prepare a personal survival kit?

About members of each family. Keep one survival kit at home, one in the car, and the third kit at work / school. Backpacks and other small bags are perfect for survival kits. These kits are collections of first aid, survival, emergency supplies including:

1. Medicines, prescription list, medical insurance card copy, doctor, name and contact information.
2. First aid kit and handbook, dust mask, durable shoes, whistle.
3. Spare glasses, contact lenses, cleaning solution.
4. Personal hygiene goods.
5. Bottled water, high calorie snack food, and bathroom amenities.
6. Activate the flashlight with an extra battery and light bulb.
7. Extra mobile phone battery and charger.
8. Emergency cash and road map.
9. A copy of the personal identification card and a list of emergency contact phone numbers outside the area.
10. Children's games, crayons, writing instruments, teddy bears.

How do you prepare a home emergency kit?

Please keep the household emergency kit in an easily accessible outdoor location other than the garage. This kit, complementing your family's survival kit, should be in an easily moveable large watertight container and hold emergency supplies for at least a week (ideally 2 weeks) of the following items:

1. Drinking water at least 1 gallon per person per day.
2. Emergency food packaged in canned food.
3. Cookware including manual can opener.
4. Grill of charcoal and gas for outdoor cooking and matching.
5. Restraint of pet food and pets.
6. First aid supplies and pharmaceuticals.
7. Essential hygiene items such as soap, toothpaste, toilet paper etc.
8. Extra car and house key.
9. Basic tools such as wrench.
10. Activate the flashlight with an extra battery and light bulb.
11. Portable battery-powered radio with spare battery.
12. Comfortable warm clothing, baby items, extra socks, blankets and sleeping bags, and even tents.
13. Working gloves and protective glasses.
14. A rugged plastic bag for waste, it can be used for other purposes.

How to prepare the Financial Recovery Kit

Keep copies of valuable financial statements in a secure certificate so that they can be used after the damage of the earthquake. Please consider purchasing a safe at home or borrowing a safe. The essential documents of this financial recovery kit include:

1. Birth certificate, social security card, naturalization document or residential document, passport, driver's license, marriage license or dispute document, child custody document, document of power of attorney.
2. Medical prescription and records.
3. Mortgage, housing improvement records, homeowners and car insurance policies, earthquake insurance policies.
4. List of telephone numbers of financial institutions and credit card companies.
5. Bank statements and financial records, credit card numbers, stocks, bonds and other investment certificates.
6. List of your household inventory and possessions photos and videos. Appraisal of precious jewelry, art objects, antiques. This item is particularly important for earthquake insurance claims.
7. Real estate prices such as houses, cars, recreational vehicles, boats, job titles, and other ownership records.
8. Back up important files on your computer. List of important personal and business contact names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
9. Convict or letter of credit.
10. Emergency cash.

Other emergency response items

1. Provide a list of important contact phone numbers, including emergency contacts outside the designated area, that all families can tell anyone where they are.
2. Once trembling stops, meet family members looking for safe places outside your family.
3. If your house is not occupied after an earthquake, decide where you live.
4. I know about the earthquake countermeasure plan developed at your child's school and nursery.
5. Please attach a flashlight and strong shoes that work next to everyone's bed.
6. Install a fire alarm, test it monthly, and change once a year.
7. Purchase a fire extinguisher, place it in an easily accessible place, and learn how to properly use it.
8. Keep the necessary tools near utility shutoff and learn how to turn off electricity, water and gas. Please stop gas only if you can hear a stinky or leaking gas.
9. Identify safe places in every room, such as a heavy-duty desk or under a table, especially "drop me, cover and hold it" with the kids. Learn how to constantly protect your head within the earthquake shake.
10. Please decide the best evacuation route from your house and each room.
11. Please take Red Cres first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training course.

If you live in California

Every year, you need to participate in Great California ShakeOut Earthquake Drill. You can register at http://www.shakeout.org/ at ShakeOut Drill on October 21, 2010 at 10:21 am! It is a great opportunity to learn how to protect and prepare you and your family in an earthquake. More than 6.9 million Californians participated in the second earthquake training in 2009.

Conclusion

The 2010 Haiti earthquake encourages people living in active earthquake areas to formulate, update or maintain their earthquake countermeasure plans. In the United States, these areas include, but are not limited to, Alaska and the West Coast, especially California. I placed Midwest state, especially Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee around New Madrid and Wabashlee earthquake areas. It is located in the Charleston area of ​​South Carolina.