Sentence examples for earthquake training from inspiring English sources

Seattle, Portland, and many other cities have programs to help promote and organize neighborhood meetings and earthquake training.

DPEU earthquake training packages are Basic Disaster Awareness, Community Disaster Volunteers, Nonstructural Risk Mitigation, and Structural Awareness for Seismic Safety.

This was because our hospital continued to function and maintained its electronic medical record systems and laboratory systems, despite a devastating earthquake and tsunami which severely affected most other medical facilities, and because staff in our hospital had received earthquake training and had recorded our experiences as memos or on digital recorders for analysis for disaster medicine.

Gerrard, who limped off with a calf injury three minutes into a March 19 win over the San Jose Earthquakes, trained apart from the team Tuesday.

In Nepal's case, much of this information was already available, and indeed a great deal of work had been done by local organisations (such as the National Society for Earthquake Technology) to prepare for the next big earthquake - training stonemasons, retrofitting schools and hospitals, educating people about earthquakes and stockpiling vital resources.

When I used to live in Japan I was taken for earthquake preparation training almost once a month.

An aboveground alternative to the rush-hour crunch, bicycles also proved to be one of the more reliable forms of transportation after the 2011 earthquake; with trains halted and taxis in gridlock, desperate commuters bought out local bike shops.

"What we wanted to do is to tackle the last leg of this problem - that is where aftershocks are going to be". The team used a database of over 100,000 earthquakes and aftershocks, including Japan's 2011 earthquake, to train a neural network to recognise aftershock patterns.

"If Nepal is to become less corrupt, improvements in governance and a change of culture have to be made to state institutions". DFID's resilience programme is part of a wide-ranging programme that includes the strengthening of a hundred school buildings to make them more resistant to earthquakes, the training of volunteers and the placing of shelter kits in locations throughout Nepal.

To participate in this study individuals had to meet five criteria: they had to be (1) Haitian nationals; (2) 18 years or older; (3) survivors of the 2010 earthquake; (4) trained HST volunteers; and (5) HST volunteer workers for at least 6 months.

The Fire Department is offering earthquake-response training for residents.