1. EARTHQUAKES By: Irantzu Nuin Denise Figueroa Adriana Zugasti

4. THE MOST TRAGIC EARTHQUAKES IN HISTORY. The Richter magnitude scale , also known as the local magnitude scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale. PLACE YEAR RITCHER China 1556 8 Portugal 1755 9 San Francisco, California 1906 7.9 Chile 1960 9.5 Alaska 1964 9.2 Haiti 2010 8, 5.9, 5.5 and 5.1

6. IMPORTANCE -FIRE -DAMAGE

8. ALTHOUGH IT WAS HORRIFIC, IT DIDN´T CAUSE A LOT OF DAMAGE BECAUSE HOUSES WERE READY.

10. - The poorest country in America -3,000,000 people were affected - Damages cost more than 7.900 million of dollars -10 years to complete the rebuilding

11. Haiti was the most tragic earthquake so old the world decided to help it.

12. TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE The director of a NOG: “we heard children’s voices in the rubble, but we couldn’t do anything”

13. The coordinator of an organization: “it’s really dangerous go out at night and, sometimes, in the day. People loot every places.”

14. Chris Rollings, Canadian director of the organization Clean Water for Haiti: “I’m going to have nightmares all my life”

15. SURVIVE IN AN EARTHQUAKE

16. You must not be under of something because they always fall down. You must be in a small place.

17. You should be in fetal position.

18. A house made of wood is safer because it does empty spaces .

19. If you are sleeping or watching TV, lie down to the floor or go next to the sofa, chair or big furniture .

20. Don’t be down the doorframe because it will break and you will die crushed

21. Don’t go downstairs because you don’t know when it can move and break .

22. Go to a place where you are in the external wall because you will be safer than when you are in the centre of the room. If you are in a car, go out and stay next to the car