Comfort and safety can be achieved in any disaster if you have carefully planned your family’s game plan whenever there is a disaster like an earthquake.
You need to prepare first a checklist of items on what to include in your earthquake kits. To give you a guide, here is a checklist of items that you need to include in your kit:
The Essentials
1) At least one week supply of drinking water for all the members of the family
2) A kit for purifying water
3) First aid kit with new stocks of medicines
4) First aid manual
5) Easy to prepare and eat food items
6) Sleeping bags or big blankets
7) Flashlight with spare batteries
8) Spare car and house keys
9) Fire extinguisher
10) Cash (loose bills and coins)
11) Baby supplies such as diapers, bottles, milk and sterilized water
12) Transistor radios with batteries
13) Sanitation supplies
14) Pet supplies such as carrier or leash
15) Heavy gloves
16) City map
After you have prepared your kit, you need to let all your family members know what it contains and where you keep the kit.
