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    #31
    TEN 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 doorjamb 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.

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    #32
    Originally posted by niky
    thousands? think millions... it's nothing we have to worry about now...

    And the guy who wrote it is a "dream prophet"? what's up with that?
    Sa tingin ko rin exaggeration lang yan. Ang daming land nawala at konti lang umangat. Kung nangyari nga iyan, hindi rin naman biglaan. It'll be little by little in a course of thousands of years. By the time this happens, meron na tayong colony sa Titan (Jupiter) or Space stations the size of megamall orbiting Earth.

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    #33
    Just don't believe everything you read... As theveed said, there is no scientific method to predict if an earthquake is about to come. Japan conducted the survey in the Manila but they couldn't even detect the big earthquake that hit them... If it comes, then so it be it. Bahala na si GOD :D

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    #34
    Originally posted by jolog1
    Sa tingin ko rin exaggeration lang yan. Ang daming land nawala at konti lang umangat. Kung nangyari nga iyan, hindi rin naman biglaan. It'll be little by little in a course of thousands of years. By the time this happens, meron na tayong colony sa Titan (Jupiter) or Space stations the size of megamall orbiting Earth.
    That's a wish we all have.

    But land movement measured in the thousands of years is equal to meters, not kilometers... it still takes a few million years for movement on that scale to occur.

    Ang pagbalik ng comeback...

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    #35
    hehehe, there was just an intensity 5.2 quake registered this morning, 120 km offshore zambales.

    first there was this 5.0 quake centered somewhere between manila and mindoro (tagaytay fault ba yun?) last month, then the quakes in japan, then the quake this morning. saan kaya ang next? marikina fault?
    Last edited by yebo; October 30th, 2004 at 05:23 PM.

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    #36
    ti8245

    urban legend din yan. pareho yan dun sa unang nabanggit na "triangle of life"

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    #37
    After Indonesia, what's the possibility that .............

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The Big Earthquake coming soon?