CAUSATION


 * CAUSATION: "Why is it like this?" The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.**

MARIA FERNANDA, ISABELLA OTERO: 26/05/10:

Preparation for an earthquake is based on 4 main causes. These causes helps us to be ready in case of an earthquake and to be prepared because an earthquake can affect us a lot and this preparation will help us so our damage will be less. Principal causes: - Other earthquakes around the world: One of the main causes for us to get preparated for an earthquake is because there have been many other earthquakes around the world. For example, we saw in the last 5 months how Haiti suffered and got destroyed because of an earthquake, approximately 250 000 people died because of this emergency and the country colapsed. Until now, the country is still suffering from side effects for something that happened 5 moths ago. This is one of the reasons why we need to be prepared in case of an earthquake, we dont want to become like this if an earthquake happens, we want to be prepared so the damages will not be so big and will not affect so much the city or even country. We also need to be ready economically so there is not so much damage. - Drills or capazitations: Another cause of being prepared in case of an earthquake or of making drills or capazitations is because we all need to know what we are going to do and because in case of an earthquake we need to be organized with the practices and the drills that are made before of it. Also we need to make drills and capazitations because we all need to know which are the evacuation routes and what is the exact procedures to follow them exactly and to know which is each organizations depending to their institutions. Building Constructions resistent to earthquakes: A cause for building different constructions resistent to earthquakes is because they all need to be prepared in case of this emergency because of all the incidents that have happened in the last months around the world. This way of preparing will help us a lot so the damage is reduced.

Maria fernanda: The differences are part of the preparation and are like this because we are first teaching people how to react in case of this situation so when the real one comes, everybody will be prepared and will know what to do and the most important, they will probably dont create panic.

The preparation that is applied during the earthquake is how it is because it is scientifically proved that this methods will help you or will make you survive in case of an earthquake. The preparations are how they are because they are approved by the specialists in this topic and they are proved by the peopple that has unfortunately suffer this horrible disaster and it has worked so that is why it remains like this.

When the earthquake has already happen, what you should do is to see if everything is alright, if the structure is fine, if its not fine then you'll need to evacuate the place were you are located. What you need to do first is to check if the structure is fine, if there is no damage and it will not be vulnerable to fall down because you have to be safe and know if you can continue with your activity or to tell teh indicated person if you see any type of damage to the structure of anything that could have happened because of the earthquake. If there is a serious damage, there would have to be an evacuation and every member and person will have to follow and evacuate the building, they would have to do everything that the emergency brigade tells you because there your life is in risk and also the rest of the people so you will have to follow everything they tell you because everybody should evacuate the building if they say so, so that anybody is in danger.

All this preparations are different for each institutions because of their activities and in what their based on. The preparation is how it is because is formed to save each persons life, so it adapts to the person, being old, young, a baby or a sick person.

By: Isabella Otero 25/05/10 As a result of living through lots of earthquakes, we have learned that the better prepared we are, the better results we will achieve. When we say the word results we mean less deaths and injuries to people, and less damage to constructions. Areas with more seismic activity are more prepared because they have lived with this their whole life, like Japan and Californa that shake almost every day. In these areas they are more prepared by using specific types of construction, and have more education programs about it.

DANIEL RIVERA GUZMAN 31/5/10

How you know the world is passing from a lots of difficult with the earthquake in Chile and in Haiti. We need to have a responsability. Our responsability is to have a clear procedure and a good preparation.

The procedure and the preparation needs to be very strict because many people have died because they loose the calm and they do not think what they are doing. Cali is not prepared for an earthquake as you know it will destroy more than the 70 % in Cali and the people or the government do not have the money to pay for that.

If you are in a company and your company has a procedure you only can focus in that procedure. Because if you concentrate in another company procedure you will get confused and you will make the procedure of your company bad and maybe your life can be in danger.