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Subject: Where to be During an Earthquake

Remember that stuff about hiding under a table or standing in a doorway??

Well, this guy has a completely reverse opinion. This is very interesting, different from what we were all taught. Boy! Is this ever an eye opener. Directly opposite of what we've been taught over the years! I can remember in school being told to, 'duck and cover' or stand in a doorway during an earthquake. This guy's findings is absolutely amazing. I hope we all remember his survival method if we are ever in an earthquake!!!

Please read this and pass the info along to your family members; it could save their lives someday!


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!


'We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.'


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.

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Haizt...
Been reading Harry Potter during this two week break from classes...
And guess what!
As I was trying to imagine what Lord Voldemort probably looked like (he was described in the sixth book as "tall, pale, dark-haired,and handsome" and I guess he was really supposed to be handsome, because J.K. Rowling made the effort to repeat it over and over again, even stressing it by describing that "His was the most handsome face... of all the boys."), it just popped inside my head that maybe he looks just like my crush!
Oh my... hahaha... very funny thought... it's so funny, I can't resist sharing it! I mean... well, he's not really pale... Actually, he's anything but pale, really. But he is tall, with dark (and very nice) hair, and he, undeniably, has the looks most girls fall for. Ahahahaha!
Wala lang!
See?
This is how bored I am!

P.S.
Anyway... tinapos ko na yung whole series during the before and after ng summer classes ko (labo). Wala kasi talagang mapaglibangan sa bahay...except for dance mania! yey! sana lang talaga may dance pad ako para di ko siya ginagawang O2 jam. ahehehe. ayan. grabeh the boredom... kung anu-ano na ang naii-isip ko.

dahil bakasyon na....

yey. magsagot muna tayo ng surveys....
grabeh. wala talagang kwenta posts ko. hahahah. :p

1.) Pinakagusto mong name?
MAYUMI. kung ipapanganak ako ulit, yun yung gusto kong name. tagalog. proud to be pinay ako e. ayoko ng english name. hindi naman kasi ako admirer ng english culture. mas gusto ko pa japanese. tapos pwede rin sa nihonggo ang mayumi di ba? better. may dugong japanese kasi ako. pero mga 1/n na ata. hehehe.

may isa pa akong gustong name. AIYORI. ewan ko ba. fascinated ako sa pangalan na iyon since grade six palang ako. hindi siya name ng some anime character. imbento ko lang. kasi gusto ko ng japanese sounding name. dahil wala akong alam sa japanese, yung dating spelling e AYORI. after four years, hinanap ko sa isang japanese dictionary, hindi ko nakita. kaya pinalitan ko ang spelling. dinagdagan ko ng "I". ang ibig sabihin na niya ngayon ay "love from within". yata. hopefully hindi mali-mali yung online japanese dictionary na kinunsulta ko. oh well.

Atsaka, Annielyn. Wala ang. kaaliw. kung nag-org. chem most liekly gets mo to. (Oi peach never ko itong piapangaln sa ank ko. Di ako tulad ni Mikael, pinangalan niya ang aso niya na benzene.)

2.) Pinakagusto mong color?
PINK. inexplicable. hindi rin halata dahil ayoko ipahalata. kung bakit ay hindi ko ma-explain. inexcplicable. ang churva.

3.) Pinakacrush mo ngayon?
ahem! very deadly information. hindi dapat i-share sa net. nakamamatay.

4.) Pinaka-nakakabother sa yo ngayon?
rice crisis. naman. nakaka-haller!

5.) Pinakakasundo mo na tao?
PEACH, at ang dakilang VPC (vapor pressure club): gihan, jane, denise, anapat, patrick.

6.) Pinakahuling nakasama mo
LITTLE BRO. nagkukwentuhan kung anong course kukunin niya. Mag-u-UPCAt na siya!!!! oh my! please help pray for him. thankies.

7.) Pinakanamimiss mong kasama
Yung chem 31 lab classmates ko... Joke. Parang kelan lang kasama ko sila ah. AHehehe. Anyways... Bye Bye Archie! di ka namin mami-miss. pramis.^_^

8.) Pinakahuli mong nakausap sa phone?
PATRICK. para siguraduhing hindi ko sila i-indiyanin sa gimik.

9.) Pinakahuli mong katext?
PEACH.

10.) Pinakagusto mong mangyari sa buhay mo?
tumangkad. yak asa...

11.) Pinakagusto mong movie?
Cast Away... all time favorite talaga. weee!

13.) Pinakawild na ginawa mo in public?
wild? hindi naman ako wild e. hindi ako laman ng dance floor kapag parties. at hindi ako mahilig sa rave. at ayokong nag-a-act. nakow. hindi ko carry ang mga roles na mangulangot o sumayaw ng my humps ng walang tugtog o ano pang mukhang ewan.
hindi ako SK e. sinong niloko ko?

14.) Pinakamataas na grade mo na nakuha sa isang report card?
ehe. uno(?)

15.) Pinakaidol mo sa ngayon?
David Cook! Sana manalo ka sa american idol. aheheh. joke.

16.) Pinakafave mong sport?
soccer. hindi. ano pala... quidditch. ^_^. joke.

17.) Pinakagusto mong subject?
math... ngayon. magaling prof namin sa 53 eh. ^_^ chem rin. ahehehe. ayoko na sa bio....

18.) Pinakaayaw mong subject?
bio... eww. as in. eww. memorization to the nth level. shuckeners. saka dahil sa bio, na-realize ko na hinding hindi talaga ako magdo-doktor. putek. pag nakita niyo kung paano ako mag-dissect ng palaka. MADUGO. dalawang major veins at isang major artery ata naputol ko. tapos na-chip-off ko pa yung isang chunk ng liver. ehehehe. eww. ayoko nang maging frog murderer! T-T my hands are stained with flog blood na. eeew.

19.) Pinakaproud na achievement mo?
scholarship ko. buti na lang dahil nakaligtas ako sa TOFI. at saka kung hindi dahil doon hindi ako makakapag-aral. buti na lang talaga. at saka. ONCE UPON A TIME, NAKAPASOK AKO NG PISAY. kasi, in the first place, kung hindi ako nag-pisay, wala naman ako kung nasaan ako ngayon. malamang wala rin akong scholarship.

20.) Pinakagusto mong kagimikan?
VPC

21.) Pinakaayaw mong hinahalintulad ka?
huh? incomparable ata ako...wala nang katulad ko sa buong mundo so that's the least of my problems... ahehehe. joke time talaga ako.

22.) Pinakaayaw mong makaaway?
+ yung aso naming pitbull. talo talaga ko dito.

23.) Pinakaayaw mong salita?
P.I.

24.) Pinakamalaswang nangyari sa yo?
huh? wala pa naman. except yung mga pesteng naniniksik sa jeep. syomai! bugbugin ko sila e!

25.) Pinakagusto mong gawin?
matulog. :)

26.) Pinakamasamang tao na kilala mo?
ooooooooo..... wala e.

27.) Pinakaself-obsessed na tao na kilala mo?
ako? joke! wala naman.

28.) Pinakagusto mong puntahan na lugar?
Japan! wala lang.

29.) pinakahuling nagmiss call sa yo?
Ang aking ina.... hehehe.

31.) pinakahuli mong kausap?
little bro. hi jeff!

32.) best boy bud/s mo?
patrick. naku.

33.) best girl bud/s mo?
pechay. gaye. den-chan.

35.) what time ka uuwi sa bahay nyo?
nasa bahay na ako.

36.) pinakahuli mong nasabi ngayon?
ahehehehe.

grabeh.... nakaka-churva.... wala lang.

yehey! yehey!

nanalo si David Cook! go David Cook! yay!

grabeh... akala ko si Archuleta na mananalo. nagkandarapa ata ang mga fans ni David Cook dahil sa comments ni Simon eh. ehehehe. grabeh. 12 million votes na lead... that's a lot.