Primary guidance for developing “next generation” scenarios, with emphasis on earthquake and landslide hazards.

Follows a family impacted by a major earthquake in central China, where the deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556. This version, in graphic novel format, is for non-technical readers including rural families and youth. There is a separate more technical version for public officials and decision makers (see below).

Follows a family impacted by a major earthquake in central China, where the deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556. This more technical version for public officials and decision makers. There is a separate version, in graphic novel format, for non-technical readers including rural families and youth (see above).

This workbook follows the steps to implement a messaging program about what to do during earthquake shaking given the local risk, building types, and other factors. This is a companion to Guidance on Developing Messages for Protective Actions to Take During Earthquake Shaking.

What people should do during earthquake shaking, to protect themselves from injury or death? It depends. Evidence-based guidance describes a process and key considerations for creating effective messages for different contexts.

Industrial designer Ido Bruno's journal of training a team of carpenters and welders in Bhutan to produce Earthquake Desks, designed to protect schoolchildren from heavy earthquake debris.

1. Epidemiology of Deaths and Earthquake Injuries, 

2. Protective Action in Immediate Fuse Events: a Literature Review, 

3. Designing Risk Communication Programs to Promote Adaptive Human Behavior During Earthquakes and Tsunamis, 

4. On the Nature of Strong Ground Motions during Damaging Earthquakes, 

5. Understanding and Mitigating Building Collapses, 

6. Public perceptions of protective action, survey in three countries, 

7. Summary of discussions with an international group of disaster messaging professionals

This manual for engineers and designers explains how the building type known as concrete-frames-with-masonry-infill-walls can be designed and built for greater seismic safety. Around the globe, this common building type has been lethal in earthquakes. Five affordable strategies are presented.