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The document discusses safety measures and tips for surviving earthquakes. It recommends making an emergency kit before an earthquake with first aid supplies, food, cash, and important documents. It also advises securing heavy furniture and breakable items. During an earthquake, it instructs people to drop down, cover their head, and hold on until shaking stops. Additional tips include moving away from windows and staying inside until the earthquake ends. Proper preparation can help reduce damage and casualties from earthquakes.

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Script Demonstrative Speech

The document discusses safety measures and tips for surviving earthquakes. It recommends making an emergency kit before an earthquake with first aid supplies, food, cash, and important documents. It also advises securing heavy furniture and breakable items. During an earthquake, it instructs people to drop down, cover their head, and hold on until shaking stops. Additional tips include moving away from windows and staying inside until the earthquake ends. Proper preparation can help reduce damage and casualties from earthquakes.

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Demonstrative Speech

How to Survive Natural Disasters: Safety Measures and


Tips Before and During an Earthquake

Earthquake is a weak to violent shaking of the ground


produced by the sudden movement of rock materials below the
earth's surface. Earthquake is not a new problem for us Filipinos
because as we all know the Philippines is located within the Pacific
Ring of Fire where volcanic eruptions and earthquakes commonly
occur. According to PHIVOLCS (Philippine Volcanology and
Seismology) our country records an average of 20 earthquakes per
day . Our country has been threatened by a big earthquake which
is named as “the big one” where researchers fear about so much
damages and casualty if ever this is not prepared well. The
government are doing it’s best to prepare for this so as citizens we
should also do our part because recently we are experiencing
earthquakes frequently and more fault lines emerged which
indicates that “the big one” might happen sooner. If I am going to
ask you a question , how prepared are we if an earthquake happens
now? To get the answer for this question, I present to you “How to
survive Natural Disasters : Safety Measures and Tips before and
during an earthquake “.

I am going to start on “before an earthquake

Step 1, Make an emergency kit that includes the following: first aid
kit, hygiene kit, personal medicines, foods, flashlight, whistle, cash,
beddings, paper and pencil, and important family
documents(etc).;and
step 2, Secure It Now. As a general rule, you should secure
anything that can be dangerous when it falls, and fragile/expensive
enough when destroyed inside the house. To secure this do the
following:

 Anchor bookcases and filing cabinets to nearby walls.


 Place heavy objects on lower shelves
 Place breakable items inside closed cabinets with latches (so
they are less to swing).
 Use closed hooks/eye screws for hanging objects.
 Put non-damaging adhesives (earthquake putty or gummies)
on tabletop objects
 Install safety film to windows and glass doors.
Next is “during an earthquake”. Official rescue teams
Majority of all the countries agree that “Drop, Cover, and Hold On”
is the appropriate action to reduce injury and death during
earthquakes.
Step 1,
DROP down onto your hands and knees(before the earthquake
knocks you down). This position protects you from falling but allows
you to still move if necessary.
Step 2,
COVER your head and neck
(and your entire body if possible) under a sturdy table or desk. If
there is no shelter nearby, only then should you get down near an
interior wall (or next to low-lying furniture that won’t fall on you),
and cover your head and neck with your arms and hands.
Step 3,
HOLD ON to your shelter
(or to your head and neck) until the shaking stops. Be prepared to
move with your shelter if the shaking shifts it around.

As a rule for indoors,


 Move away from windows, skylights, doors and things that can
fall.
 Stay inside, and do not leave the building you may be hit by
falling debris.
As a rule for outdoors,
 Move quickly and safely into the open, away from electrical
lines, trees and buildings.
 Drop to the ground and cover your head with your arms until
the shaking stops

Disasters like earthquakes can happen in a blink of an


eye, though there are research and studies done by scientists to
know when an earthquake strike it is still a long way to go. So as of
now the best thing that we can do to predict an earthquake is to
prepare for it. It is important for every Filipino family to learn the
basic doe’s and don’ts whenever an earthquake strikes. If we are all
knowledgeable enough to learn this tips well we can assure of a
lesser damage and a lesser casualty if ever a big disaster strikes. As
the saying goes by “ better safe than sorry”. Thank you.

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