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    Community and individual preparedness through practices like maintaining emergency kits and DROP, COVER, HOLD are important earthquake risk reduction strategies. Proper planning through building codes and retrofitting existing structures can help reduce earthquake risks. Public education on earthquake characteristics and preparedness is also key. The government should enact disaster management policies and laws to establish authorities to oversee risk reduction measures before, during, and after disasters. Engineered building structures should be constructed following bylaws to withstand shaking, considering soil type and advanced technologies.

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    Community and individual preparedness through practices like maintaining emergency kits and DROP, COVER, HOLD are important earthquake risk reduction strategies. Proper planning through building codes and retrofitting existing structures can help reduce earthquake risks. Public education on earthquake characteristics and preparedness is also key. The government should enact disaster management policies and laws to establish authorities to oversee risk reduction measures before, during, and after disasters. Engineered building structures should be constructed following bylaws to withstand shaking, considering soil type and advanced technologies.

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    Community and individual preparedness through practices like maintaining emergency kits and DROP, COVER, HOLD are important earthquake risk reduction strategies. Proper planning through building codes and retrofitting existing structures can help reduce earthquake risks. Public education on earthquake characteristics and preparedness is also key. The government should enact disaster management policies and laws to establish authorities to oversee risk reduction measures before, during, and after disasters. Engineered building structures should be constructed following bylaws to withstand shaking, considering soil type and advanced technologies.

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    Unit IV Disaster Management

    Risk Reduction Measures for Earthquakes

    Following are some of the disaster risk reduction strategies for earthquake:

    1. Community and Individual preparedness: Community preparedness is vital for mitigating earthquake
    impact. Emergency survival kit containing essential supplies, medicines etc. should be properly
    maintained. Steps to be taken before, during and after an earthquake must be practiced by each
    individual within a family as well as in a community. The most effective way to save you even in a
    slightest shaking is 'DROP, COVER and HOLD'.
    2. Planning: The Bureau of Indian Standards has published building codes and guidelines for safe
    construction of buildings against earthquakes. Before the buildings are constructed the building plans
    have to be checked by the Municipality, according to the laid down bylaws. Many existing lifeline
    buildings such as hospitals, schools and fire stations may not be built with earthquake safety measures.
    Their earthquake safety needs to be upgraded by retrofitting techniques.
    3. Public education is educating the public on causes and characteristics of an earthquake and preparedness
    measures. It can be created through sensitisation and training programme for community, architects,
    engineers, builders, masons, teachers, government functionaries teachers and students.
    4. Polices and laws: Proper policies and laws should be enacted by the government for disaster
    management and there should also be establishment of authorities for works to be done before, during
    and after a disaster.
    5. Engineered structures: Buildings need to be designed and constructed as per the building by laws to
    withstand ground shaking. Architectural and engineering inputs need to be put together to improve
    building design and construction practices. The soil type needs to be analysed before construction.
    Building structures on soft soil should be avoided. Buildings on soft soil are more likely to get damaged
    even if the magnitude of the earthquake is not strong as shown in the Figure below . Similar problems
    persist in the buildings constructed on the river banks which have alluvial soil. Advanced earthquake
    resistant technologies like base isolation, energy dissipation devices should be used for multi-storey
    commercial buildings and bridges.

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