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The book teaches earthquake safety, including the idea of “drop, cover and hold on” to protect oneself during a temblor and about heading to high ground if there’s a tsunami threat.
Here are ways to protect your house and family in case of an earthquake, including tips from FEMA and Ready.gov to keep you and your family safe during an earthquake.
The Apple Earthquake Survival Kit from 1986 gave critical safety instructions to employees — and it could probably still be used for advice today.
Earthquake safety: 7 tips to help prepare your family for one Earthquakes strike at a moment's notice. Here are seven steps you can take to help prepare your family, according to emergency and ...
Comic book about earthquake preparedness aims to help families develop disaster plans (video) Updated: ; Sep. 26, 2014, 5:42 p.m. | Published: ; Sep. 26, 2014, 4:42 p.m.
This week, as they do every four years, hundreds of earthquake experts huddled in Los Angeles in dimly lit rooms where complicated mathematical formulas representing such things as seismic energy ...
In a stark recognition of Los Angeles' vulnerability to a major earthquake, the city on Friday enacted the nation's most sweeping seismic regulations, requiring an estimated 15,000 buildings be ...
Mayor Eric Adams urged New Yorkers to take cover under a piece of furniture or in a doorway during an earthquake. But experts say doorways are not the best option. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons When an ...
Local residents look at cracks caused by an earthquake on a road in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo April 16, 2016. REUTERS/Kyodo ...