Educational materials for school earthquake safety: from guidelines to practices

This document introduces UNCRD’s project “Reducing Vulnerability of School Children to Earthquakes” in Asia-Pacific region and presents educational guidelines and practices on earthquake preparedness and disaster management carried out in Fiji, India, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. It describes teacher’s guides and handbooks, and student workbooks that have been prepared in order to assist in creating earthquake resilient schools and to ensure school children and local communities in seismic regions have the capacities to cope with earthquake disasters.

It also discusses how to create evacuation plans and how to do an earthquake drill, and presents examples of disaster safety plan, community earthquake safety plan and emergency utility kit.