Today, the "Great Shakeout" will occur. Millions of people around the world will hit the deck in a massive earthquake drill to prepare for future earthquakes. Homes, schools and offices are all going to participate in the event. This is behavioral preparation. If they can prepare the generation public to react in a certain way, hopefully they will stay calm during the actual hazard. Therefore, more lives will be saved.
According to www.ready.gov, they say the best ways to react during a earthquake if indoors is to drop to the ground, get under or near something sturdy and cover your face and head. Quoted from the website, "Stay in bed if you are there when the earthquake strikes. Hold on and
protect your head with a pillow, unless you are under a heavy light
fixture that could fall. In that case, move to the nearest safe place." This seems a little too easy to protect yourself from an earthquake. What is a pillow really going to do? I understand that there is only so much a person can do to protect themselves if there is an earthquake but telling a person to cover their head with a pillow for protection seems a little unnecessary.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/18/shake-rattle-and-roll-us-other-countries-to-participate-in-earthquake-drill/
http://www.ready.gov/earthquakes
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