The Great Southern California ShakeOut of November 2008 featured the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history. Involving 5.3 million participants the drill took place in homes, businesses, schools, places of worship and communities across California with an estimated 3.3 million school children involved. As part of an international observation team put together by RiskRed three schools were observed taking part. This paper Poster Presentation focuses on a high school in Burbank, Los Angles, California, comparing it with a drill observed in an elementary school in Taiwan in May 2009 in an effort to highlight good practice while examining how the drill could be integrated into wider disaster prevention education, before during and after the event. It is argued that the current practice of isolated and abstract exercises without reflection and action by students does not help them to become better prepared now or in the future as adults.
The presentation can be viewed in pdf form by clicking the link here:
ucl_poster_sharpe_1.pdf
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