Selasa, 03 November 2009

Addressing Earthquake Tips

Our country is a series of islands with a series of active volcanoes is indeed is one of the few countries that often have earthquakes. Not only because of the volcano, the Earth's plates move around our country was also contributing threat we must not take for granted.

Several times our country was rocked by an earthquake in this year, and the earthquake that hit so many brothers took the life around us. Lots of things we can do to prepare themselves in facing the earthquake there, or at least reduce the impact that may arise if an earthquake occurs

Geology.com share useful tips you can do to reduce the harm that can occur before, during and after the earthquake.

Before the earthquake occurred:

1. Nothing wrong with you to prepare yourself by learning to prepare for an earthquake, remember that earthquakes often appear without warning and it is this that makes are often victims of falls, because they do not know what to do when an earthquake comes.

2. Teach all your family members about how to deal with earthquakes. Existing ways include:

* What do you do when an earthquake occurs

* Make sure family members know where the firm for such protection under a strong desk, along the walls in the room, and
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3. Prepare an emergency supplies such as: Radio with a battery (plus extra batteries), flashlight (with extra batteries), P3K equipment, bottled drinking water, food for two weeks and a variety of medicines, blankets, cooking fuel and light equipment you can use to turn off the electricity.

4. Prepare your home, keep a heavy object on the bottom and store the objects in china cabinet with a lock. Avoid hanging a heavy mirror or picture at the place where people gather, or sleep.

5. If There's heavy equipment in the home such as water heaters, refrigerators and bookcases, do not let these things move easily, if necessary, planting it into the floor or the wall.

6. Avoid storing fuel or flammable liquids near the fire source, or near the stove.

7. Make sure you know and ready to turn off the power source with existing tools.

If you've done all the above in preparation, at least adverse effects that occurred will be reduced. Now if a sudden the walls vibrate and the floor moving, what should you do?

1. If you are indoors, remain calm and stay in the room. Try to shift or move to such a strong place under a sturdy table, or near the wall of the room. In this way, you'll avoid the falling objects. Avoid dangerous places such as windows, large mirrors, hanging objects such as paintings. Avoid too heavy furniture and a stove, immediately move away from this place.

2. If you're in the kitchen, quickly turn off the stove and find shelter

3. If you are outside the room, quickly find a place open field to avoid objects thrown at you. Avoid places filled with trees, power lines and tall buildings.

4. If you're in a vehicle, do not panic, stop, but do not suddenly and immediately pulled over. If you stay in the car, still lives in the car. Stay away from places such as under bridges, under power lines near trees or large signs and billboards!

Immediately after the earthquake was over, there are some things you should do:

1. Please check, if you or your family or people around you get hurt, if any, immediately give the necessary aid, and make sure you maintain security around you!

2. Check for damage. If you are building near the badly damaged, immediately leave, let the experts help or officer conducting the examination

3. If you smell gas, immediately remove all people from the room, and open wide the doors and windows. Report gas leaks to the nearest workers, and avoid using electricity at the place which was leaking gas smell, fear will trigger an explosion or fire

4. If electricity is off, check to be sure there is a damaged electrical equipment, and tried to smell if there was the smell of burning, if it detected a smell like this, or you see sparks of electricity, immediately turn off the electricity from its center.

5. If the power out, you better remove the cable from the first outlet, for fear if the electricity on again, some equipment could be damaged, and can even trigger a fire.

6. If there are puddles of water, approach with caution, fear of electric shock may threaten you!

7. Immediately contact the next of kin to ensure that each condition
Hopefully not much longer occur due to the earthquake victims in our country ....

Overcoming tips frosted glass

Heavy rain is very disturbing ride comfort. Especially if the car driven by an AC problems or die, so complete was 'suffering' the driver.

As rain, we will automatically close the window of our car meetings. Well, if our car air conditioner was not working properly when it rains, it is often frosted glass windows, because of the difference in air pressure. As a result, visibility to the front would be affected over time, due to the fogged windshield.

To help make going home was delayed due to this problem, can do some emergency tips to eliminate the fog on the windshield. We can apply the way the driver is often done by public transport, namely by using hair shampoo, which is certainly very easy to find.

The trick is to spread the liquid shampoo to the entire inner surface of the glass to taste, because if most could even interfere with vision. Also do not be mixed with water, because the glass surface will gradually spread with more nodes.
Liquid shampoos contain chemicals that can block water vapor deposition, so that moisture due to heat in the cabin could not be attached to the glass surface which had been spread with hair shampoo.