Ensuring an Earthquake-Resilient Home

Earthquake Survival quite literally begins in your own home. To ensure safety against tremors, it’s important to assess your living space to know what types of repair and reinforcement it needs to be quake-resilient.You can begin your home inspection by examining two major factorsand its content and structure.Securing House ContentsIt is important to identify the items that can possibly move, break or fall when a quake jolts your house. unnamed-1-620x620 and//www.panahon.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/unnamed-1-620x6201.jpg Things to rememberand1. Secure hanging fixtures on the wall and ceiling.2. Strap down hazardous electrical components.3. To prevent tipping, heavy and tall objects such as appliances and cabinets must be anchored or braced using a flexible fastener like a nylon strap and a hook.4. Place the fragile, large and weighty objects on the lower shelves of cabinets.5. Lock the cabinets if possible.6. Rearrange large things including framed pictures and mirrors away from seats and beds to prevent injury to occupants when ground shaking occurs.7. Ensure elastic connector on gas stoves or appliances.8. Check the accessibility of fire exits.9. Know when and how to shut off utility lines.Checking Home IntegrityAccording to the Metro Manila Earthquake Reduction Study (MMEIRS), 38.3% of residential buildings in Mega Manila might be damaged when the and//www.panahon.tv/blog/2015/05/west-and-east-valley-fault-system/ Valley Fault System moves. 339,800 of them will be partly disrupted while 168,300 will be heavily dented. Unlike other hazards, quakes can transpire anytime without warning, bringing secondary dangers such as fire, liquefaction and ground rupture among others.This study led and//www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/ PHIVOLCS in coming up with a and//satreps.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/images/jica_materials/2_questionaire_chb_english_ver1_0_january20_2014.pdf checklist that homeowners can use in assessing how their Concrete Hollow Block (CHB) house will fare in the event of a strong quake. checklist is applicable to 1- and 2-storey houses, and a must for houses built before 1992 when the earthquake resistance standards were introduced to the Building Code. house check phivolcs and//www.panahon.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/house-check-phivolcs-620x...