Saturday, April 10, 2010

My Earthquake Experiences in America

Hyojoeng Kim(Jeong)


Every day, the earth is suffering much kind of natural disasters. Natural disaster is happening constantly in the worldwide. The earth has six lands. In each land, different disasters occur even though we don’t know about disaster. All disasters damage country’s society, economics, cultures, and other things. Therefore, many people are scared every disasters and tried to prevent those disasters. Especially, In California many different disasters sometimes suffer like fire, floods and earthquakes. Places where I live happened earthquakes very often.

The California’s big issue is earthquakes. Furthermore, I already suffered earthquakes while I took not only during in class but also in my house. When I was learning in grammar class, I felt something. I skipped that feeling, but other classmates started to talk about that. It was earthquake! However, the grammar teacher also didn’t care because earthquake occurs very often in this area.
In addition to that experience, I had studied about California earthquake class. That class’s name was Field Study of the San Andreas Fault: San Bernardino to Mecca Hills. I went to there and saw that earthquake’s origin happened in there. I felt nervous when I stepped near the center of an earthquake.

A week ago, I and my roommate’s bodies suddenly were shaking each other. We were very surprised that our apartment also was waving smoothly. The earthquake was happening when we took rest at each room. As I was embarrassed about moment’s earthquake, I didn’t know what I could do. I went outside and saw this situation. I felt earthquake could do anything. After earthquake, I found how to protect from that. Best way to avoid earthquake is to hide under materials like desk, chair and so on. I think people should know about how to save oneself. The earthquake continues even though we don’t know it is happening. So, we should prepare and concern about that.

3 comments:

  1. Me too! I felt earthquake last week! I was in My house, and doing computer. Suddenly, I felt dizzy, and I thought that 'I have a headache... I'm really weak nowadays......'. However, It was earthquake!!! lol I was stupid!!! After I felt earthquake, I ran out of my house, and stayed outside... alone... I was only person who ran out of house.... -Charley

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  2. I felt last week, too!
    Actually, I felt many earthquakes since I came here. First days, I was afraid of them because I had very bad experience about earthquake in Turkey. I felt an earthquake which was over than 7 magnitudes, and over than one thousand people died. Whenever I feel an earthquake in California, I remember my bad memories. However, I am getting used to live with it. I hope there won't be big one!!!

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  3. Maybe , I was in LA ,so I felt nothing. when my parents heard about the earthquake , they called me to make sure I was safe .In my country never has any earthquakes , but I don't want to felt it. It's very terrible because it make many people die.

    Jenny

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