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5. Earthquakes Are Not Affected By Weather – Lots of kids who live in cold places look forward to blizzards and huge snow storms because they know school will be closed when the snow starts falling.
SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP — When you think of earthquakes in this country, you probably think of California. But on Thursday, students in the East Stroudsburg A ...
DERBY, Kansas – Earthquakes are becoming more and more frequent in Kansas, with a 3.9 magnitude quake shaking the region just last month. Now, Derby schools want to be prepared. On Monday ...
The U.S. Geological Survey, via Earthquake Track, reported 191 earthquakes above a 1.5 magnitude in the past 30 days in Oklahoma, but schools haven’t implemented earthquake drills.
Parent volunteers on a school safety committee pushed this school to do a full-scale reunification drill. “We wanted the parents to think about how they would reunify with their kids in an event ...
NORMAL — Kindergartners in Kathy Fitzgerald’s Oakdale Elementary School class scampered under their desks and held on tight Thursday morning.
It's a sad fact of life that K-12 students must practice for calamities such as earthquakes, fires, lockdowns or active shooters. Now a few public ...
No earthquake shook Montana on Wednesday. That’s more unusual than you might think. Rarely does a day go by without some rumble somewhere, almost always of a mild magnitude under 3.0. At 10:22 a ...