This Tuesday, the National Authority for Emergencies and Civil Protection (ANEPC) carries out a public exercise to raise awareness about seismic risk, called ‘A Terra Treme’, which “aims for the population to know how to act in the event of an emergency.” ”. earthquake”.
HE 12th edition of ‘A Terra Treme’ happens at 11:05 a.m. “in collaboration with various public and private entities”meeting open registrations for the population on the website (www.aterratreme.pt).
Reinforcing its commitment to safety and preparation for seismic risk, the ANEPC explains that the exercise includes the gestures “lower, protect and wait.”
“The exercise consists of performing three simple gestures that can make a difference for those who practice them in the event of an earthquake”stands out.
According to the ANEPC, the “The action takes place for one minute, in which the participants, individually or collectively (families, schools, companies, public, private or associative institutions), “You are invited to perform the three self-protection gestures: download, protect and wait.”
The objective of the exercise, indicates Civil Protection, is “to know what to do before, during and after an earthquake”, learning “the preventive measures and self-protection behaviors to adopt.”
Although the initiative has national expression, the ANEPC, together with the General Directorate of Education (DGE) and the General Directorate of School Establishments (DGEstE), promotes a central event of the exercise at the Dr. García Domingues Basic School, in Silves.
At the end of the action, an exercise will be carried out with the movement of real resources on the ground.of a sector test of the Special Emergency Plan for Civil Protection against Seismic Risk and Tsunamis in the Algarve, in the scope of search, aid and rescue intervention in different scenarios in the municipalities of Portimão and Silves, in Barlavento Algarvio.
“Throughout successive editions, the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority has sought Expand reflection and debate around the topic of seismic risk and knowledge about what to do before, during and after., […] particularly in the context of the inclusion of people with disabilities,” he recalls.
Throughout the country, the Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Commands (CREPC) and the Subregional Emergency and Civil Protection Commands of the ANEPC will promote, in collaboration with local educational communities, firefighter associations, municipal civil protection services and other agents civil protection, awareness. proposing actions regarding seismic risk and self-protection measures to face it, as well as carrying out the ‘A Terra Treme’ exercise.
Inserted in the National Preventive Civil Protection Strategy, the ANEPC initiative, which this year coincides with World Tsunami Risk Awareness Day, aims to highlight “the importance of an informed and resilient society in the face of natural disasters.”
Source: Observadora
