Preparedness
This is the FEMA website that has preparedness information for making a plan, building a kit, and staying informed.
What is www.ready.gov?
One of the four examples of FEMA social media that supports mitigation.
What is the FEMA Facebook page, the FEMA Twitter page, the FEMA YouTube page, the FEMA Smartphone Application, and the FEMA Blog? (any of the four are correct answers)
Use these to keep a mobile home from becoming mobile on its own during a tornado or earthquake.
What are Earthquake Tiedowns?
Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days or even a week, or longer. This item should be kept in the event those services are out.
What is disaster supply kit?
This natural disaster appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour.
What is What is a tornado?
This program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
What is the Citizen Emergency Response Team (CERT) program?(Citizen Corps is also a correct answer)
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.
What is a biological threat?
Do these three when the ground starts to shake.
What is Duck, Cover and Hold?
You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.
What is water?
To prepare for this natural disaster, secure your water heater, refrigerator, furnace, and gas appliances by strapping them to the wall studs and bolting to the floor.
What is What is an earthquake?
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Plan or a Family Communications Plan?(Both are correct)
By doing this mitigation action on houses, buildings are more likely to stay on their foundations.
What is bolting the house to the foundation? / what are foundation bolts? (Both are correct)
Pet Owners should familiarize themselves with these locations before a disaster strikes in case of a potential evacuation.
What is identify pet-friendly hotels or shelters?
Immediately following a disaster, a community can become easily overwhelmed by the amount of generous people who want to help. This is the best way to help.
What is donating cash or affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area? (either answer is correct)
Changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes (especially the places where runoff water converges), land movement, or progressively leaning trees are all signs of this natural disaster potentially occurring.
What is What is a landslide?
This logarithmic scale, named after the seismologist and physicist who developed it, classifies earthquakes by magnitude.
What is the Richter Scale?
To reduce damage during earthquakes, this should be used on water heaters and high furniture pieces.
What are retaining straps or clips?
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies to for at least this many hours.
What is 72 hours?
This guide enables effective recovery support to disaster-impacted States, Tribes, Territorial and local jurisdictions. It provides a flexible structure that enables disaster recovery managers to operate in a unified and collaborative manner.
What is What is the National Disaster Recovery Framework?
This natural disaster can be accompanied by other natural hazards, including earthquakes, mudflows and flash floods, rock falls and landslides, acid rain, fire, and (under special conditions) tsunamis.
What is What is a volcanic eruption?
Businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.
What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) or a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?
This privately funded publicly managed organization was created in 1996 by the Legislature to sell earthquake insurance through participating insurance companies.
What is the California Earthquake Authority?
Volunteers should never do this after a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.
What is self-deploy?
This is operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and activated during Presidentially-declared disasters. Its mission is to assist in reuniting children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster.
What is What is the National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)?
This natural hazard caused the most fatalities in 2012 with 155. This hazard also has the highest 10-Year Average (2003-2013) with 117 fatalities according to the National Weather Service.
What is What is a heat wave or extreme heat?