The Philippines is located at a strategic position or location that is in favor for various disasters. The Philippines lays at the west part of the Pacific Ocean resulting for us to suffers from huge number of typhoons every year. Another disaster that can threaten us is earthquake. We are prone to it because we are in the Pacific Ring of Fire, which can locate a massive quantity of active volcanoes. The most terrifying characteristic of an earthquake is that it gives no signal before it will srikes.
The Government repeatedly encourage the public to be always ready for unexpected calamity such as earthquake. DepEd together with other department and agencies, trains the students in every school quarterly to practice the proper responds or actions when earthquake occurs. Specially since according to experts, Manila and nearby province will suffer from a strong earthquake, that is termed as “The Big One”.
And thus, they made us practiced the earthquake drill. They made the duck, cover, and hold printed in our mind because it will help us to preserve our life when facing the said disaster. They also emphasized that we need to protect our head more than the rest of our body. And also, they educated us to be calm and not to panic when the earthquake or other disasters happens because it is the basic and most important technique that we need to learn and master so that we can act more logical and rational even when facing a catastrophe.
In fact, it is not enough for us to be only knowledgeable about earthquake and earthquake drill, we also need to prepare for it, so that we can minimize the damage that the said disaster will inflict to us.
Reference:
https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/205455-ndrrmc-local-government-units-national-earthquake-drill-2018-photos
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