Earthquake Response
Take cover immediately, direct others around you:- Under a desk, table, or chair
- Between seating rows in lecture halls
- Against a corridor wall (cover head and neck)
- Outdoors--in open area, away from buildings
MINOR QUAKE (brief rolling motion)
- Restore calm
- Examine your area for damage
- Report damage/hazardous materials releases to
- Plant Ops.
- your Dean/Vice President
- Review safety procedures and kits
- Await instructions, evacuations are unlikely
- Restore calm. Assist others
- Assist with injuries to the level you are trained.
- Report damage to your Supervisor
- Evacuate carefully, be alert for aftershocks
- Take emergency supplies
- Do not use elevators
- Meet at your Emergency Assembly Point
- Do not enter buildings until they have been examined and released
- Report status to Satellite Emergency Operations Center
- Await instructions, be patient, help others
2/5/02