地震

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This is interesting - DIFFERENT from what we have been told, but it makes sense!
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.

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.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a
school in Mexico City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under
their 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, and 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. They are
everywhere.

TEN 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 (space) 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 to everyone YOU care about and save
someone's life!