{"id":6803,"date":"2018-10-02T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T19:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/?p=6803"},"modified":"2018-10-02T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T19:41:12","slug":"get-earthquake-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/get-earthquake-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Get earthquake ready!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6804\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6804\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/files\/2018\/10\/2017-Kit-items_Emergency-preparedness-600x324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency kits are available for purchase at the UBC Bookstore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Get ready to ShakeOut<\/h3>\n<p><strong>October 18, 10:18 a.m.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis October, practice the Great BC ShakeOut, an annual province-wide earthquake drill at the specified time, which is October 18 at 10:18 a.m. Emergency management experts and other official preparedness organizations agree that \u201cDrop, Cover, and Hold On\u201d is the appropriate action to reduce injury and death during earthquakes.\u00a0 It is only a one-minute commitment for something that can save your life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>DROP<\/b>\u00a0to the ground (before the earthquake drops you!),<\/li>\n<li>Take\u00a0<b>COVER<\/b>\u00a0by getting under a sturdy desk or table, and<\/li>\n<li><b>HOLD ON<\/b>\u00a0to it until the shaking stops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakeoutbc.ca\/dropcoverholdon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about Drop, Cover, and Hold On<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Quake cottage earthquatke simulator: October 17<\/h3>\n<p>Quake Cottage Canada is back on the Vancouver campus! Faculty, staff, and students are invited to ride the earthquake simulator to experience what it\u2019s like to go through a major earthquake. Our folks at RMS will also be here to answer any questions you have about emergency preparedness and how to be better prepared. The Quake Cottage will be set-up at University Commons, outside the AMS Student Nest from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m on October 17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quakecottage.ca\/\">Learn more about Quake Cottage <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Get ready to ShakeOut October 18, 10:18 a.m. This October, practice the Great BC ShakeOut, an annual province-wide earthquake drill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1989,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[881221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-es"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/esnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}