NEW RESOURCE: Why Don't People Prepare for and React to Earthquake Hazards?

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Comment by Justin Sharpe on October 13, 2011 at 5:33pm

Hey Yoli,

How are you? Thanks for the comments! That is such GOOD NEWS about the County Teen CERT programme, I know you have been working on that for a while now! So well done! If you guys can get it into High School elective courses that would be absolutely fantastic! If you have anything that you want to add to the site about it, start a new blog and add materials that way! Thanks for sharing, especially on IDRR Day!

Comment by Yolanda (Yoli) McGlinchey on October 13, 2011 at 4:57pm

This is really good material. Thank you for all your work and encouragement being the liaison between all the members. I wanted to let you know that we completed our first County Teen CERT program in August. It was a huge success and we are looking to possibly adding the CERT program to the high school elective courses.  

Comment by Justin Sharpe on October 4, 2011 at 5:08pm

Hi Marla,
Thanks for the comments! MEDC means More Economically Developed Country. I understand what you are saying about tendenko, but was trying to simplify the message for the mystery exercise (and squeeze it into the cards!) Unfortunately, when developing resources like this something is lost in translation, both literally and metaphorically but I will include some notes in the lesson plan to help with this. Some interesting points on what the right thing is...

Comment by Marla Petal on October 4, 2011 at 4:23pm

A Q and couple of comments:

1. Way to go!  Justin, please give yourself credit and add your name/date to the materials (which will hopefully evolve and expand over time).

2. What is MEDC?

3. Translation of "Tendenko" as 'scatter' really misses the point. The message is: do not do anything except head away from coast to higher ground".  "Scatter" could easily be read as 'wrong', but "Tendenko" is right!

Quite a bit of interesting research on problems with "loss aversion" decision-making coming out (Popular book "How We Decide" (Jonah Lehrer) makes quite accessible. While we have to prove the EFFECTIVENESS of certain actions, we have to argue for them in terms of AVOIDING LOSSES. We also have to make the distinction between the false feeling good you get when you think about doing the right thing, vs. the REAL feeling good you deserve when you do it.  Such complicated creatures that we are....