Heat Waves: Safety Tips and How to Help
Children are among those at risk in extreme heat. Save the Children’s experts offer these tips to keep children safe in a heat wave.
After an 8.2 earthquake severely shook Mexico Save the Children’s emergency response team quickly mobilized to ensure the children in shelters are protected and learning, with access to safe spaces to learn and play.
Earthquakes are caused by the breaking and shifting of rock beneath the earth’s surface. They can strike without warning and can occur at any time. In the U.S., 45 states and territories are at moderate to very high risk of earthquakes. Save the Children’s emergency experts share 10 earthquake safety tips including what you can do before, during and after an earthquake.
American Red Cross: Earthquake Preparedness
Earthquake Country Alliance: Welcome to Earthquake Country
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Earthquake
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