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Sarte 11-Plato
1. Do not build near steep 1. Stay alert and awake. Many 1. Go to a designated public
slopes, close to mountain debris-flow fatalities occur shelter if you have been
edges, near drainage when people are sleeping. told to evacuate or you feel
ways, or natural erosion Listen to a portable, battery- it is unsafe to remain in
valleys. powered radio or television your home.
for warnings of intense
2. Get a ground assessment 2. Stay away from the slide
rainfall. Be aware that
of your property. area. There may be danger
intense, short bursts of rain of additional slides.
3. Contact local officials, may be particularly
state geological surveys or dangerous, especially after 3. Listen to local radio or
departments of natural longer periods of heavy television stations for the
resources, and university rainfall and damp weather. latest emergency
departments of geology. information.
Landslides occur where 2. If you are in areas susceptible
4. Watch for flooding, which
they have before, and in to landslides and debris
may occur after a landslide
identifiable hazard flows, consider leaving if it is
or debris flow. Floods
locations. Ask for safe to do so. Remember that
sometimes follow landslides
information on landslides driving during an intense
and debris flows because
in your area, specific storm can be hazardous. If
they may both be started by
information on areas you remain at home, move to
the same event.
vulnerable to landslides, a second story if possible.
and request a professional Staying out of the path of a 5. Check for injured and
referral for a very detailed landslide or debris flow saves trapped persons near the
site analysis of your lives. slide, without entering the
property, and corrective direct slide area. Direct
measures you can take, if 3. Listen for any unusual sounds rescuers to their locations.
necessary. that might indicate moving
debris, such as trees cracking 6. Help a neighbor who may
4. Watch the patterns of require special assistance -
or boulders knocking
storm-water drainage infants, elderly people, and
together. A trickle of flowing
near your home, and note people with disabilities.
or falling mud or debris may
the places where runoff Elderly people and people
precede larger landslides.
water converges, with disabilities may require
Moving debris can flow
increasing flow in additional assistance.
quickly and sometimes
channels. These are areas People who care for them
to avoid during a storm. without warning.
or who have large families
4. If you are near a stream or may need additional
5. Learn about the
channel, be alert for any assistance in emergency
Christine Verena M. Sarte 11-Plato
SOURCES: https://landslides.usgs.gov/learn/prepare.php
http://www.ready.gov/landslides-debris-flow