Earthquake Survival

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings
falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects,
leaving a 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, therefore, the
greater the probability when the person 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) People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed to death.
Almost everyone who do the wrongly preached 'ducks and covers' routine
when buildings collapse, are crushed to death.
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. Your can
preserve your limbs better instead of facing amputation afterwards.
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 survivable
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 duringan earthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting
out of the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal
position next to a sofa, or large chair.
6) Never stand under a doorway ! Almost everyone who gets 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 as near to an outside wall of the building as possible
(Or Outside Of Them) *** Get yourself as near to an outside wall of
the building as possible, instead of being in 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. 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, paper do not compact. Large
voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.

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