After shaking has stopped, people should move immediately to higher ground and away from the ocean.
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“One size does not fit all”, he said, but added that most buildings in Benton County should survive an natural disaster.
And the kind of attention generated by this summer’s article in The New Yorker not only scared the bejesus out of folks who call Oregon and Washington home, it has almost doubled the number of people who signed up for the Great Oregon ShakeOut drill this year.
At Sunnyhills School for ShakeOut drills with students are from left, Auckland Council’s Civil Defence chair Sharon Stewart, Tom Morton and Adele White.
Practicing what to do ahead of time is critical to safety in the event of an quake, and the ShakeOut educates participants on how to get prepared. It starts at 10:15 a.m. when participants around the world will duck and cover simultaneously. In 2011 it came to the central USA, and this year the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut involves Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. It certainly doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t prepare for earthquakes. It is crucial for the people of Hawaii to understand how to best prepare for and respond to earthquakes.
The region’s schools, pre-schools, kindergartens and other businesses including Waimate District milk processor Oceania Dairy also took part in the drill. Taking cover is the safest bet, but buildings should be checked frequently for their ability to withstand an quake.
As the clock at the Timaru District Council struck 9.15am, South Cantabrians dropped for cover.
-Vertical evacuation is also an option; in a building that is ten stories or taller, people can evacuate to the fourth floor or higher.
Each year, hundreds of earthquakes occur in Arizona.
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The largest quake ever recorded happened in 1960 off the coast of Chile, where it killed thousands and caused millions of dollars in damages.
