After the earthquake, you need to do an immediate damage assessment. First go turn off the gas if you smell anything, leaky gas line could explode and take out the entire home and your cats nine lives. Look for cracks in the panel or any area where the house carpet is lifted. Then walk around the outside of the house, what do you see? Do you see downed fences, retaining walls, support structures holding up the garage at weird angles or any areas where your house was knocked off its foundation? Look also for water pipes that are broken, if so turn off the main water line coming into the house. If there is extensive damage then that means that other neighbors are also of the whole area.
When the whole neighborhood were damaged and the cities have to worry about the chaos and disorder, form a group with your neighbors and block off the street with cars, if you live in a culd-a-sac. Expect more after shocks. Refer your family on the relationship between water, fill the bathtub with water, now covered with the main water supply to the town are broken. Join with your neighbors to form a support group and access to all the damage and get with other neighbors near and see what happens. In the event of power outages, make all the neighbors to turn off all devices so that no class system when everything turns back on. If power is still, after several hours, understand the plan for food and BBQs, street parties, but do not waste your food, stick together and ride it out. Also plan what to do incase of a fire or forced evacuation. Have a package ready to care for your entire family for a 5-day food and portable incase you need to pack up the SUV to get out of Dodge. The best time for planning home security in the event of an earthquake before it happens, so think about it.
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