[Em-announcements] Student Services Building Participating in The Great California ShakeOut 2010

[Cecily Julien]

Student Services Building Tenants, 

 

The Student Services Building will be participating in The Great California ShakeOut 2010 exercise scheduled for tomorrow, October 21, 2010. Please plan to follow all of the instructions outlined below and safely evacuate the building at 10:30am.

 

Emergency Assembly Area/Evacuation Location: Student Services Building Plaza Area. 

Instructions: Check-in with your Department Safety Coordinator (DSC). Please see attached list of DSCs.  

Department Safety Coordinators: please be prepared to check-in staff using an emergency staff list.   

 

Campus Instructions

 

Immediate Actions

 

During shaking

 

·        Remember to duck, cover and hold

·        Duck or drop to the ground

·        Cover yourself by getting under a sturdy desk, table, between rows of auditorium seats, or against an interior wall

·        Protect your head and neck with your arms

·        Stay clear of windows, hanging objects, mirrors, or shelves where objects may fall

·        Hold on to the furniture that covers you

·        Protect your head and neck until the shaking stops

After shaking stops

·        Be prepared for aftershocks

·        Do not run outside or immediately evacuate as falling debris can cause major injuries

·        Quickly gather personal items and critical work or research that needs to be saved

·        If working with high heat, open flame, or a hazardous experiment or procedure, complete safety shutdown procedures if it is safe to do so, and then evacuate the building

·        Follow evacuation routes directly to building's Emergency Assembly Area (EAA); do not attempt to use an elevator for evacuation

·        Assist evacuating people with disabilities if they need help

·        Check in with emergency staff at the Emergency Assembly Area and notify them of injured people, hazards or damages observed

·        Stay at the Emergency Assembly Area and follow directions of emergency response personnel

 

Thank you, 

 

Assistant Vice Chancellor Enrollment Management (AVCEM) Office

 

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From: staff-bounces at scotmail.ucr.edu [mailto:staff-bounces at scotmail.ucr.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Walker
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 5:58 PM
To: Staff at scotmail.ucr.edu
Subject: [Staff] The Great California ShakeOut 2010

 

The Great California ShakeOut 2010

 

Since 2007, the State of California has been conducting an annual earthquake preparedness exercise that is known as “The Great California ShakeOut.”  The ShakeOut exercise, designed to simulate our responses to a magnitude 7.8 earthquake along the southern San Andreas Fault, is now held on the 3rd Thursday of October.  This statewide “Drop, Cover, Hold On” drill is organized by the Earthquake Country Alliance (www.earthquakecountry.org <http://www.earthquakecountry.org/> ) a statewide "alliance of alliances" linking the public information efforts of organizations and individuals that provide earthquake information and services. ECA alliances include the Southern California Earthquake Alliance <http://www.earthquakecountry.info/socaleqa/> , Bay Area Earthquake Alliance <http://bayquakealliance.org/> , Central Coast Earthquake Alliance <http://www.earthquakecountry.info/centralcoast/> , and the Redwood Coast Tsunami Workgroup <http://www.humboldt.edu/~geology/earthquakes/rctwg/> .  ECA members include: scientists and engineers; emergency response managers, non-profit organization and business leaders; community groups and activists; federal, state, and local government leaders and agencies; tribes; and others who share a passion for making a difference towards reducing California's earthquake risk. 

 

A key aspect of the ShakeOut is the integration of comprehensive science-based earthquake research and the lessons learned from decades of social science research about why people get prepared.  The result is a “teachable moment” on par with having an actual earthquake (often followed by increased interest in getting ready for earthquakes).  ShakeOut creates the sense of urgency that is needed for people, organizations, and communities to get prepared, to practice what to do to be safe, and to learn what plans need to be improved.

 

UC Riverside has registered the campus as participants in every ShakeOut exercise, lending to last year’s record number of nearly 6.9 million Californians participating through a broad-based outreach program, media partnerships, and public advocacy by hundreds of partners.  The 2010 ShakeOut drill will be the largest preparedness event in U.S. history, and UCR is planning to participate in several ways.  Campus planned events for 2010 include:

 

October 19th

 

6:30 p.m.        An evening educational program at regarding earthquake science, earthquake technology, and campus city preparedness efforts held at the HUB, Room 379.

 

October 21st

 

10:21 a.m.      The campus will use the Emergency Warning Siren to signal the start of the “Drop, Cover, Hold On” exercise.  The campus community is urged to take part in this drill, whether at work or at home, indoors or out, in office spaces or classrooms, to practice the actions they will need to take in the event of an actual earthquake.

 

10:21 a.m.      KUCR will broadcast a 2 1/2 minute audio clip which leads listeners through the Drop, Cover, and Hold On process.

 

10:21 a.m.      Strategic Communications will test their webpage emergency drop down alert tool.  This will also serve to remind people to participate, and will provide a link for participants to click and listen to the same recording as the KUCR broadcast.

 

10:30 a.m.      The start of multiple building evacuations on campus.

 

11:00 a.m.      An earthquake information fair in the Coffee Bean plaza lasting until 1:00 p.m..  UCR subject matter experts will be on hand to answer questions raised by the ShakeOut drill.  Also featured at the fair are earthquake preparedness tips, displays on historical earthquakes and their effects, demonstrations, and educational activities on the science of earthquakes.  Additionally, there will be a demonstration of how earthquake faults operate; a simple seismograph that displays people's jumps and stomps; a laptop-based seismograph network, and emergency supply vendors.

 

Everyone's participation is greatly appreciated and remember:

 

"Don't Freak Out, ShakeOut!"

 

The contacts for UCR’s involvement in the ShakeOut are Associate Professor of Geophysics in Earth Sciences, David Oglesby (david.oglesby at ucr.edu) and Campus Emergency Manager in EH&S, Paul Walker (paul.walker at ucr.edu).

 

 

Paul Walker

Campus Emergency Manager

University of California Riverside

900 University Avenue

Riverside, CA 92521

951.827.2609 o

951.212,5482 m

951.827.5122 f

paul.walker at ucr.edu

ehs.ucr.edu/emergency

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