CONNECTION


 * CONNECTION: "How is it connected to other things?" The understanding that we live in a world of interacting systems in which the actions of any individual element affect others.

ISABELLA OTERO, LAURA NAOMI GALLEGO, MARIA FERNANDA ** Earthquake preparedness is also connected to the final effects of the earthquake. A major earthquake can affect the economy by damaging businesses, roads and transportation. It creates homelesses people because their houses are destroyed. It can create health problems if there is no food and water. Agriculture can be affected because the earthquake will destroy crops and peoples ability to harvest. The better prepared we are, the less effects we will have. In many ways, preparation for earthqukes is also connected to other disaster preparedness, because many of the emergency procedures are the same, or very similar.
 * Earthquake preparedness is connected to many different areas, starting with the government, then smalller organizations and last individual citizens. The government has to create laws that require anti-seismic constructions. They also have to have emergency procedures ready for when an earthquake happens. Those procedures include the police and the army. The government also needs education programs on earthquake prepardness. These programs are connected to schools and the media. **
 * Smaller organizations are also connected to earthquake preparedness. Organizations like the Red Cross and hospitals are categorized as first response. In an emergency they are the first ones to help the people. Another category are businesses,like banks, factories, construction companies, clubs, etc. They have to follow the procedures and the laws created by the goverment in case of an earthquake. The last group includes schools, universities and foundations. These organizations have to educate people about how to be prepare for an earthquake. **
 * Earthquake preparedness connects to i ** ndividual citizens. Citizens have to be ready and prepared for an earthquake. They need to make sure their homes are built carefully following anti-seismic laws and that they have safe proof the house. They should buy an emergency kit. People need to be educated about the triangle of life and how to act during an earthquake.

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency []
 * Isabella Otero:**
 * (20/5/10)**

Earthquake preparedness is connected to other disaster preparedness because the evacuation procedures are similar. The way hospitals, goverment, police and other organizations respond to disasters is almost the same. It is also connected to construccion, to science and inovation because before building something the design has to be antisismic. Scientists and engineers are always looking for ways to be more secure.

If an area is greatly affected by an earthquake people often loose jobs and ways to survive. Buisnesses can be damaged, agriculture could be afected, even food supplies.

If a very important area is affected, other areas can be indirectly affected also for example: if an earthquake hit the middle east all of the countries that buy oil will be affected.

Countries that are wealthier than others often are better prepared for earthquakes because buildings are better made and the goverment has more infrastructure.

26/05/10 A earthquake is connected to the economy because the people can lose their jobs. To the earthquake distroy the agriculture. A earthquake to is connected with the police ,the army the goverment the hospitals and more. The govement is connected because they are the ones that prepared all the people for a earthquake and to they have the plan of emergency to they have the economy of the city .The engineers and contructures to are connected because they hade made buildings with sismoresistencia and to they are always finding a secure ways. The people to are part of the connection because they are connected to with the preparation and procedures.
 * Laura Naomi gallego**

Maria fernanda: ( []) (interview to the red cross)

24/05/10:

Preparation for an earthquake is connected to many things, for example the police, defense department and to the army that would be the security are because they need to be prepared to help everybody and safe them from the destructions that an earthquake could leave. Also to the government department and that impicates the money of the country and how developed the country is because the government has to be prepared and prepare everybody so they are ready in case of an earthquake and that they have a plan of emergency or a clear procedure for the whole country or city, and also if there is all the money needed to build construction resistan to earthquakes or if there would be money to fix all the damages that an earthquake will implicate for a city or country, to be prepared economicaly. This emergency is also connected to the supporting networks because they are the one that will be the first to be prepared to help in case of an earthquake and are the most prepared people and have clear procedures to help every individual that is in need of help. The people and the citizens are also connected to the preparations and the procedures that a city or institution has because they are part of it, they are the ones that apply it and follow it because then it will not work. Everybody is implicated and connected to the preparations and the procedures because they are the ones that need to do it so that's why it is connected.