■   Hide behind the solid furniture when inside the house. 

When there is an earthquake, it’ll shake fiercely for about one minute. At that time, you should consider you and your families’ body security. You need to hide behind some solid and firm table with low center of gravity, and hold firmly its legs. If there is no table or such kind of place to hide yourself, you should use some thing like cushion to protect your head.

■   Turn off the fire immediately when there is shaking.   
We can’t expect the fire engine come to put out the fire when there is a serious earthquake. Therefore, whether we can minimize the disaster of earthquake, it’s very important for everyone to make effort to turn off and put out the fire. At the usual time, we should form a habit to turn off the fire even there is a little one.

■   Don’t run out of the house in a pucker.  
After the earthquake, it’s very dangerous if run out of the house in a pucker, for the reason that the broken glasses, the tiles and bricks on the housetop and the billboard will fall down and hurt you. Besides, board walls prefabricated with concrete, automatic booths will collapse dangerously. So don’t go close to these objects.

■   Open the door and leave over the exit.    
In some house build by armored concrete, people can’t open the door because the doors and the windows will be distorted by the power of the earthquake’s shaking. There before, some people were closed in the house. So please open the door and leave over the exit.

And at the usual time you need to think about that how you can escape if you can’t get out of the house, and get ready for the ladder and some cords and so on.

■   Protect well your head if you are outside. 
When the earth shakes strongly and people can’t stand stably, people intend to rely on and clutch at something. And mostly the doorpost near you and the wall will become people’s reliant objects. But actually they are not safe even though they looked firmly.

In the year of 1987, when an earthquake happened in Japan’s Gongcheng county, the collapse of the board walls prefabricated with concrete and doorposts caused many people dead and injure. So for God’s sake, don’t go close to these kinds of objects.

In busy streets and sections with a lot of buildings, the most dangerous thing is the broken glasses and billboards. Take care and protect your head with your handbags.

■   Calm down when in place with a lot of people.
In places like marketplace and showplace that have a lot of people, the happening of bedlam is the most terrible thing. Please act according to the direction of the staffs and guards.

If there is a fire, drive down your body so as avoid inhaling the smog and never smoke.

When there is an earthquake, elevator is not available. And you should leave the lift quickly if you are using it. If you can’t open the lift’s door, please ask for help with the special telephone in the lift.

■   Park your car along the roadside.

When there is an earthquake, it’s hard for you to hold the steering wheel and drive your car. You must be careful and park your car at the roadside avoiding the crossing. In order to respect the passes of the people and cars want to go away from the disaster, you need to give away the middle part of the road.

Most part of the road in the downtown will not available. You should pay more attention to listen to the radio. If drop your car and run away is needed, please turn off your car’s windows, left the key in the car and left the door open, and then run away with other people. 　　

■   Watch out landslides, the bluffs and the rock falls.  
At the side of mountains and some steep and aslant places, possibly there will have dangerous of landslides, the bluffs and the rock falls. You had better avoid going to that kinds of places.

When at the seaside, you may suffer tsunami. If you feel like there will have earthquake and tsunami, please watch the information from the radio and TV set, and go to the safe place as soon as possible. 

■   Choose pedestrianism when you are taking refuge.

If the fire made by the earthquake spread it’s burning, and endanger people’s health, people should be organized by civil fire prevented organizations and units of different streets, and bring as less res as possible when go to the safe place in the leading of principals and policemen.

■   Don’t believe any rumors.
People will have perturbation in heart when facing the earthquake. In order to prevent chaos, it’s very important for everyone to calm down and act according to the right information. People should take the radio and grasp the correct information. Do believe the direct information form the governments, policemen and some institutions like firehouse and so on. Never trust the irresponsible scandals easily and indiscretion is not the right choice too.