TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY
1) Most everyone who simply 'ducks and covers' WHEN BUILDINGS COLLAPSE are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.
2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.
4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on The back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a sofa, or large chair.
6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be killed!
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different 'moment of frequency' (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads - horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged.
8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible - It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.
9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.
10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.
In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul , University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did 'duck and cover,' and ten mannequins I used in my 'triangle of life' survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly observable, scientific conditions , relevant to building collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover.
Extracted from a foward mail. Why does these mails comes to you AFTER the disaster happens. Isn't it a lil bit too late? O_o It might be true that it's for our future use but sigh.... Tian Suan Bu Ru Ren Suan! Direct translate : Sky count more accurate then human count. xD
~*What i think doesn't really mean I will do it. Everyone acts differently when it comes to certain matters. No matter how well things are planned, there are always possibilities for accidents or sudden change of matter. *~
I'm working on filling in the forms to postpone my serving to the Country's National Service. So many forms. But all i need to fill in is just ONE form. 4 pages - 1 paper. -_- WASTE OF PAPER LA! One person receive more than 10 pieces of paper. There are thousands of Malaysian chosen for this. Think of how much papers are printed and WASTED! MY GOD MALAYSIA.. And tomorrow have to wake up early. Go school to ask the school make my letter.
Let me repeat how frustrated I am concerning this National Service letter.
- The inform letter was issued on the 9th May
- I received the letter on 30th May
- The start of the camp is on 14th May
- I was in miri since 29th May till today 1st June
- For me to postpone my serving in the NS, i have to submit the letter 10days before the camp starts (4th May)
- I have to get a letter from the school confirming that I'm still studying and I'm sitting for a public exam
- Tomorrow will be 2nd June (2days to mail the letter)
- From past experience, government school need fastest 1 day to process something. That means EARLIEST I will get my letter on 3rd June (1 day to send the letter)
- I think I still need to hand in another letter to the camp's office in Miri. So might have to go back Miri once more. X_x
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