American California city belongs to global earthquake to send one of areas high, coast of its Chinese and Western is the biggest urban los angeles is the 2nd big city of American, be in fitly inside belt of the most active at the whole world earthquake of annulus Pacific Ocean, how to answer seismic calamity to become the task that American federal and California local government explore ceaselessly, this theres is no lack of among them a few experience and lesson.
20 thousand have los angeles underground in rice left and right sides a fault. Seismologist is forecasted, the possibility that los angeles produces earthquake of 8 on the Richter scale inside 9 acting people is very large. In frequent small earthquake and likely big earthquake menace falls, a few regulations of the United States and formulate of branch of California local government, place's perfect infrastructure, shock-proof consciousness to adolescent grooms the core advantage that answers seismic calamity for the United States.
The building ordinance of California place sets compulsively, the building design of all buildings must satisfy aseismatic requirement, and outskirts a house owned by a citizen is independent type monolayer or building of two woodiness structure more, can reduce a building to break down when producing major earthquake calamity so the harm that collapse, reduce personnel mortality. In addition, california highway extend in all directions, seismic hind rescuing job is in very easily short when inside spread out smoothly. These advantages are in got reflecting in earthquake of mountain of los angeles north 1994.
Forecasting an earthquake still is world-class difficult problem, raise shock-proof consciousness to become the main link that answers seismic calamity accordingly. Bureau of American geology investigation and door of Ministry of Education reach the education that has seismic knowledge in school student to the public from beginning to end for years, popularize the knowledge that the ego in seismic calamity protects. For example the middle and primary school of California asks in every semester the student prepares bag of an earthquake lash-up to give in the begining the school is unified and custodial, content includes necessary medicines and chemical reagents, solid food and the connection means with the parent and nonlocal relative to wait, in order to have in case.
Although have a few successful experience and advantage, but the place that the United States still has a few lessons and inadequacy when answering seismic calamity.
Area of mountain of los angeles north produced li of family name 1994 6. 7 class earthquake, in this earthquake, the building that has 11 hospitals in all is differred to degree is damaged and cannot be used, this makes these hospitals not only cannot get hurt for ground epicenter personnel offers medical treatment to serve, the original patient in needing a hospital instead is scattered go to other hospital, the hospital that serves to the around medical treatment after assuming shake thereby increased a burden. In view of this, california legislative passes a legislation after this earthquake, all hospitals of deadline requirement California must set serious illness ward and emergency call room inside the building that has aseismatic capacity.
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