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Protect Yourself: Step 1: Secure Your Space

Secure your space by identifying hazards and securing moveable items. Create a disaster plan and decide how to communicate in an emergency. Organize emergency supplies in convenient locations. Minimize financial hardship by organizing documents, strengthening property, and considering insurance. Drop, cover, and hold on when an earthquake strikes. Improve safety after an earthquake by evacuating if needed, helping others, and preventing further damage.

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Protect Yourself: Step 1: Secure Your Space

Secure your space by identifying hazards and securing moveable items. Create a disaster plan and decide how to communicate in an emergency. Organize emergency supplies in convenient locations. Minimize financial hardship by organizing documents, strengthening property, and considering insurance. Drop, cover, and hold on when an earthquake strikes. Improve safety after an earthquake by evacuating if needed, helping others, and preventing further damage.

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PROTECT YOURSELF

No one can predict when or where an earthquake will strike, but you and
your family can be prepared before the next big one hits. The following
earthquake preparation tips take a few hours to create a plan and
organize supplies that will keep you safer.

Step 1: Secure Your


Space

Secure your space by identifying


hazards and securing moveable
items.

Step 2: Plan to be
Safe

Plan to be safe by creating a


disaster plan and deciding how
you will communicate in an
emergency.

Step 3: Organize
Disaster Supplies

Organize disaster supplies in


convenient locations

Step 4: Minimize Financial


Hardship

Minimize financial hardship by organizing


important documents, strengthening your
property, and considering insurance.

Step 5: Drop, Cover, and


Hold On

Drop, cover, and hold on when the earth


shakes.

Step 6: Improve
Safety

Improve safety after earthquakes by


evacuating if necessary, helping the
injured, and preventing further
damage.

REFERENCES
https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/California-Earthquake-Risk/Personal-
Preparedness/Seven-Steps-to-Earthquake-Safety

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