[StBernard] where to be in an earthquake

[Westley Annis]

Check out this article on earthquakes as well.
http://www.earthquakecountry.info/dropcoverholdon/
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    where to be in an earthquake
    
     
    
    EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"
    
    My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of
the
    American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most
experienced
    rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an
earthquake.
    
    I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue
teams
    from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I
am a
    member of many rescue teams from many countries.
    
     
    
    I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two
years. I!
    have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except
for
    simultaneous disasters.
    
     
    
    The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico
City
    during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every
child
    was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have
survived by
    lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene,
unnecessary and
    I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the
time
    know that the children were told to hide under something.
    
     
    
    Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings
    falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects,
leaving a
    space or void next to them. This space is what I call the "triangle
of life".
    The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The
less the
    object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability
that
    the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured.
The next
    time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the
"triangles" you
    see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you
will see,
    in a collapsed building.
    
     
    
    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 door jam
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.
    
    Spread the word and save someone's life... The Entire world is
    experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!
    
     
    
    In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be
    correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul ,
University of
    Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this
practical, scientific
    test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside.
Ten
    mannequins did "duck and cover," and ten mannequins I used in my
    "triangle of life" survival method. After the simulated earthquake
collapse we
    crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and
document the
    results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under
    directly observable, scientific conditions , relevant to building
collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing
duck and cover.
    
     
    
    There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people
using
    my method of the "triangle of life." This film has been seen by
millions
    of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe , and it
was seen
    in the USA , Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV
    
    
    
 mah 
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