Reading, we cannot prevent natural disasters, but is there anything we can do when they hit? The news reports below described lucky escapes from two natural disasters. Before you read the news reports, think about the following questions. What do you know about the signs of a natural disaster? What would you do during an earthquake? Pupils live speed during full month earthquake by rayman tran, the eighteen th of march four months on the seventeen th of march, four hundred and seventy six students and thirty six teachers at four month primary school escaped an earthquake that hit the county at two twenty seven P. M. Only five students suffered slight injuries despite the current figures of seven killed and over two hundred injured in the disaster area at large. Alice Brown, head teacher at four month primary school, was teaching when the floor began to shake, her students reaction was quick and correct. They moved under their desks head first and held onto the legs of the desks. At the same time, miss Brown quickly opened the classroom door. In case IT became damaged during the shaking and could not open, there were a loud crashes of glass breaking and things falling to the ground, but the students remained still and waited calmly and quietly. The moment the shaking stopped, miss Brown sensed IT was the best time for the class to make their escape. SHE signalled to her students to except the classroom in an orderly line, covering their heads with their hands. Within one minute and twenty seconds, the whole class went down the stairs and rushed to the playground. Soon, students from other classes arrived too. After a roll call confirmed that all was safe and sound. They relaxed, laughing, crying and hugging each other. We practice earthquake safety procedures twice a year, said miss Brown, so the kids were calm enough to protect themselves during the earthquake. Girl saves one hundred from tsunami by Jessie cable the twenty first of december noodle on the twentieth of december, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea earthquake race across the ocean near gold shore and left thousands dead. Gold shore beach was the only local beach to survive the disaster without any loss of life. A ten year old girl, sabina and john, helped around one hundred people escape danger with her knowledge of sunnies. The day began like any other on goldtown beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the Sandy beach, enjoying the warm sea air and the soft wind that brushed their hair. Sabina was one of the happy tourists until he noticed something odd. The water was like the bubbles on the top of a beer. SHE later explained. IT wasn't calm and IT wasn't going in and then out. IT was just coming in and in and in. Sabina had just learned about tsunami in a geography lesson. IT immediately occurred to have that these were signs of an approaching tsunami. Sabrena was frightened, but SHE soon kept her head SHE warned her parents of the danger, though at first they just thought he was joking. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was on its way and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer. To her great relief, the officer immediately realised the coming danger. The beach was rapidly cleared of people just before the huge waves crashed into the coast.