[Rhodes22-list] FW: Earthquake survival 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE'

Tue Mar 16 04:36:20 EDT 2010

Chris, thanks for forwarding this.  Good to know living near the fault
line in Seattle.

I was sitting in the top floor of an office buidling in Sunnyvale, CA,
a few miles down the road from Milpitas, when the 4.6 (?) quake
centered there hit last month, a few days before the quake in Haiti.
Quite an experience to see the building visilbly sway from the inside.
 All of us non-Californians in the meeting were wide-eyed.  All the
Californians laughed at us.  Which of course caused us to trash their
governaor, lifestyle and economy. And then the fight started.

Dave

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Geankoplis <napoli68 at charter.net> wrote:
> My brother sent this to me, interesting, seems to make sense.  Not a big
> concern for a lot of you (New Madrid faulties excepted).
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> From: Brad Geankoplis [mailto:wanpro at pacbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 16:30
> To: napoli68 at charter.net
> Subject: FW: Earthquake survival 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE'
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> I don't have any one else's email addresses on this computer.  Please
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> From: Brenton.sahm at sbcglobal.net [mailto:brenton.sahm at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:52 PM
> To: Rasmussen Eric; Mabry Dennis; South Gene; Savage Tony; Savage Ron; Sahm
> Norm & Melissa; Sahm Jennifer; Reed Ben; Rasmussen Carol & Duane; Matzoll
> Trish; Matzoll Lindsey; Matzoll John; Matzoll Brent; Matzoll Ashleigh; Karns
> John & Andy; Geankoplis Brad; Fleischer Rich; Feick Steve; Bridget Matos
> Subject: Fwd: Earthquake survival 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE'
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> Definitely worth the read...
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> From: "David reckling" <david at moserinsurance.com>
> Date: March 10, 2010 11:43:22 AM PST
> To: "David reckling" <david at moserinsurance.com>
> Subject: FW: Earthquake survival 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE'
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> In light of what has happened in Haiti, the 'shake' in Venezuela a few days
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>  EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE'
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> My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the
> American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced
> rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an
> earthquake.
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> I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from
> 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member
> of many rescue teams from many countries.
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> I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have
> worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except for
> simultaneous disasters.
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> The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City
> during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under its desk. Every child was
> crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying
> down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I
> wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know
> that the children were told to hide under something. I am amazed that even
> today schools are still using the ?Duck and Cover? instructions- telling the
> children to squat under their desks with their heads bowed and covered with
> their hands. This was the technique used in the Mexico City school.
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> Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling
> upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space
> or void next to them. This space is what I call the 'triangle of life'. The
> larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the
> object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the
> person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time
> you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the 'triangles' you see
> formed. They are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a
> collapsed building.
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> TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY
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> 1) Almost everyone who simply 'ducks and covers' when buildings collapse ARE
> CRUSHED TO DEATH.
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> People who get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.
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> 2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal position. You
> should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival instinct. That
> position helps you survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to
> a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a
> void next to it.
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> 3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in during an
> earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the earthquake. If
> the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are created. Also,
> the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight. Brick buildings
> will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many injuries but less
> squashed bodies than concrete slabs. Concrete slab buildings are the most
> dangerous during an earthquake.
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> 4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs, simply roll
> off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can achieve a
> much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign on the
> back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the floor,
> next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.
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> 5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting out the
> door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to a
> sofa, or large chair.
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> 6) Almost everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is
> killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or
> backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls
> sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be
> killed!
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> 7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different 'moment of frequency
> (they swing separately from the main part of the building). The stairs and
> remainder of the building continuously bump into each other until structural
> failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on stairs before they
> fail are chopped up by the stair treads ? horribly mutilated. Even if the
> building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs. The stairs are a
> likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs are not
> collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by
> fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest
> of the building is not damaged.
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> 8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible.
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> It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than the
> interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the
> building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.
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> 9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in
> an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened
> with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the
> San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all
> killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and lying in the
> fetal position next to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived
> if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them.
> All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars
> that had columns fall directly across them.
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> 10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper offices and
> other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact. Large voids
> are found surrounding stacks of paper.
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> In 1996 we made a film, which proved my survival methodology to be correct.
> The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul , University of Istanbul
> Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific
> test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten
> mannequins did 'duck and cover,' and ten mannequins I used in my 'triangle
> of life' survival method. After the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled
> through the rubble and entered the building to film and document the
> results.
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> The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques under directly
> observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building collapse, showed
> there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover.
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> There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people using my
> method of the 'triangle of life.' This film has been seen by millions of
> viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe , and it was seen in
> the USA , Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.
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> Spread the word and save someone's life...
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> The entire world is experiencing natural calamities so be prepared!
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