Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Earthquakes occur all over the world, but many people don't know what the safest thing to do is when shaking starts.
www.iris.edu and shakeout.org
If you live in earthquake-prone regions, it isn’t a question of IF, but WHEN the earthquake will occur. We do not know where we will be when it strikes, but we can know how to protect ourselves when it happens. This animation shows quick steps to take if you are in a building, outside, in bed, in a classroom or lab, in a wheelchair, in a store, in a high rise, in a car.
WA Emergency Management Division/IRIS/ShakeAlert collaboration.
Narrated by Brian Terbush, Washington Emergency Management Division (mil.wa.gov/earthquake)
Animated by Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated for the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (www.iris.edu)
Reviewed by Robert DeGroot, U.S. Geological Survey.
Earthquakes occur all over the world, but many people don't know what the safest thing to do is when shaking starts.
www.iris.edu and shakeout.org
If you live in earthquake-prone regions, it isn’t a question of IF, but WHEN the earthquake will occur. We do not know where we will be when it strikes, but we can know how to protect ourselves when it happens. This animation shows quick steps to take if you are in a building, outside, in bed, in a classroom or lab, in a wheelchair, in a store, in a high rise, in a car.
WA Emergency Management Division/IRIS/ShakeAlert collaboration.
Narrated by Brian Terbush, Washington Emergency Management Division (mil.wa.gov/earthquake)
Animated by Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated for the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (www.iris.edu)
Reviewed by Robert DeGroot, U.S. Geological Survey.
![M7.2 Haiti Earthquake, August 14, 2021 [Tectonic setting extracted from 2 IRIS animations]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xzKQLmdAodA/mqdefault.jpg "M7.2 Haiti Earthquake, August 14, 2021 [Tectonic setting extracted from 2 IRIS animations]
Animation made to accompany the Recent Earthquake Teachable Moment PowerPoint presentation here: https://www.iris.edu/hq/retm/event/7042
This animation is a composite of TWO separate IRIS animations:
2010 Haiti Earthquake—10-yrs later: www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/650
and
Hispaniola Tectonics & Earthquakes: www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/714")
