How to prevent an earthquake?

Question

Or what techniques can you use to minimise the damage? In particular in Kobe, Japan, but any techniques will do.

Answer 1

If you mean physical prevention of an earthquake, that is not possible. If you mean mitigating the hazards posed, then there are several things you can do:

-Identify the week points in the building you live in
-Have a Civil Defence Kit handy and in a place where you can easily reach it after an earthquake
-Put valuable items such as heirlooms near the bottom of cabinets so that they are less likely to break when they fall out
-Have an escape plan
-Know your local seismic hazards - i.e is that faultline down the road going to rupture in your lifetime, or in the next millenia
(United States Geological Survey, NZ Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences and so on hold this information)
-Have fire extinguishers nearby incase of fire after an earthquake
-If you live near the coast, know the fastest route inland, because if you feel a strong earthquake, a tsunami may not be far behind - especially if any water bodies nearby behave strangely, i.e water level suddenly drops or rises for no apparent reason
-Turn on the radio and listen to broadcasts for directions if a State of Emergency is declared

Answer 2

Can Earthquakes Be Prevented

Answer 3

was going to laugh when i read your post subject! then i read the small print, it makes more sense!
to minimize the damage, you can start by using lighter building materials, such as fibreglass or asbestos roofing instead of concrete tiles, use of mroe steel, aluminium and glass rather then concrete, and making the buildings more flexible so that they don't crumble when tremors occur. you can also concentrate buildings away from fault lines if you know where they lie, so that when an earthquake happens there, it will be further away from the focal point. also ensure that there are caterpillars available on standby to assist in clearing rubble both on roads and when searching for people. have trained canine units in the rescue teams because dogs are better at finding people in tight places than any people or machines can ever do.

Answer 4

#1 get out of the way and stay away from dangerous faults to avoid damage. if you insist on living on a active fault do as the japanese do they put beams on their houses where when an earthquake happens their house will wobble from the shaking but will not collaps because the beams are fitted like a puzzle that fall back into place

Answer 5

1- the design of ur house: the design is so important also the substances u use 2 build it .
2-a place 2 go : if u r living n country like ME - japan - u should know that earth quacks r our best friend so u have to know place u can use if an earthquake happened
3-don't b afraid nothing big can b happen always feel cheerful !!

Answer 6

You can not predict or prevent the earthquakes. If you are so much afraid of your life try to live in seismic zones 2 or 3. Don't live in 4 or 5. I am the man issued the warning 2 hours before Tsunami struck our Indian coast. I have used the quake alarm designed by me. The character of the alarm is given below.
What is unique in this Quake Alarm!

There are several instruments available to sense and measure seismic waves. They are broadband seismometer, seismograph, accelerometer, transducer, and geophone and gravity meters etc.

All these equipments are converting the mechanical movement to electricity either by moving magnet or by moving coil systems. The electricity produced in these types of sensor will be in the order of few mille volts only. This feeble volts developed by the sensors are filtered and amplified to get required output in the form of analog or digital signal. The problems encountered in these methods are enormous. The spurious electricity produced by fluctuation in operating current, electricity produced by induction due to moving vehicle, lightening, radio frequencies, force of air, noise and several other factors will affect the performance of these equipments.

Even though these sensors are capable of sensing the movements in nanometer, they will work only for particular direction. Therefore minimum three sensors are used in these seismometers one for east west, second for north south and third one for up and down motions. The body waves produced by earthquake namely primary and secondary will strike these equipments at an angle when they are on the path of propagation. It depends upon the distance and depth of focus from the location of measurement. Therefore only a part of the force depending upon the angle of attack will be recorded by these sensors as per the parellogram law of forces. The sophisticated equipments such as broadband seismometer are very sensitive but cost more than 40 lakhs rupees. Therefore only the meteorological department can afford to have it. The problem is the communication of information to the common public. In case of earthquake the warning time will be in order of few seconds to few minutes only.

To overcome these difficulties we have designed and manufactured fairly reliable warning instrument called TSS quake alarm. This can be made and sold at cheap rate even a poor person can afford it. This single mechanical sensor is designed to sense the waves generated from earthquake from all directions at different angle. The sensitivity of this equipment is more than what is required to alert the people who are at risk. This will respond only to the physical movement due to the arrival of waves. No spurious electricity will trigger this alarm. The required threshold force to activate this equipment can be set and checked using in-built calibration system that is available in this equipment. This instrument is working on the principle of Newton’s first law of inertia and the difference in acceleration between the gravitational force and that of earthquake. This has proved its capability in several occasions.

Answer 7

no one will do that

Answer 8

all you have to do is jump in a plane and crash it into the ocean

Answer 9

DO NOT PANIC !!! :))