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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
DIVISION OF PARANAQUE CITY
PARANAQUE NATIONAL HIGHSCHOOL-BACLARAN

SCHOOL EARTHQUAKE DRILL NARRATIVE REPORT I.INTRODUCTION

Cataclysm or disaster is given. It can ruin or worst make our lives vanish in just one click; but then, it’s not the end already because we all know that we can be unharmed or let say protect ourselves by the help of this two-word “PREPAREDNESS & AWARENESS” if ever the earthquake comes as well as other calamities. Always remember that being prepared and aware are very abundant not only for the others but for all of us.

Mock drill or much well-known as earthquake drill is an exercise that commonly practiced in schools which is also called as a scenario organized to access the level of preparedness and check the outcome procedure pertaining to any disaster follows. It trains teachers, school staffs and student as well on how to practice proper actions during an earthquake. Earthquake is the result of sudden release of energy in the Earth’s Crust that creates Seismic Waves. It caused by faulting, a sudden lateral or vertical movement of rock along a rupture (break) surface. There are three main types that may cause an earthquake: normal, reverse (thrust) and strike-slip. So the question is…….If ever an Earthquake will surprise you tomorrow, next next day, next week, next month or next year are you prepared? Or much better, how prepared you are?

II.ACCOMPLISHMENTS

16th of July 2013 around 8:15 a.m when a long bell heard as a signal for an earthquake drill’s pre-arranged and while the bell was ringing the students ducked, covered their head below the chair with a book handle by the students on the top of their head. Until, the bell stop to ring; it was second period so that, the teacher who assigned in each classroom during that time was the one who guide the students to went downstairs as much as possible in a safest way. At

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