A calm guide to preparing your household for disasters, protecting children, elderly relatives, and loved ones who need extra care and planning.

Understand why aftershocks remain dangerous long after the main quake, and learn how staying alert helps you avoid injuries during unstable periods.

Learn why the first 72 hours after an earthquake shape survival and recovery, and how to cope while emergency services remain overwhelmed.

Understand why nighttime earthquakes are so dangerous and how simple preparations before sleep help you move safely through darkness and confusion.

Learn how to react safely if an earthquake strikes while you are driving, including where to stop and how to avoid roadway and structural hazards.

Find out why most earthquake injuries happen indoors and how securing furniture and heavy items keeps your home safer when the ground moves.

Learn how to stay safe outdoors during an earthquake by moving to open space and watching for falling objects, glass, and unstable structures.

Separate common earthquake myths from facts, and see why mistaken beliefs, not the shaking itself, cause many avoidable injuries and deaths.

Understand how high-rise buildings react during earthquakes and how to judge when staying put is safer than rushing down crowded stairwells.

Learn practical steps adults can take to shield children during an earthquake, since a young child's survival often depends on nearby grownups.