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Aftershocks & Earthquake Safety Training Center

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Aftershocks & Earthquake Safety

The main quake is over but Trembling Hollow hasn't stopped moving. What you do in the next ten seconds decides whether you walk out.

What you're training for

In Trembling Hollow, grit is pouring off the ceiling and an aftershock is rolling through. Getting out means making the right call, instantly. Train here first; prove it in the simulation.

The science

  • Aftershocks are smaller quakes that follow the main one — sometimes for days — as the fault settles into its new position.
  • In shaking, the thing that hurts you is falling objects, not the ground itself.
  • The rule is Drop, Cover, Hold On — get low, get under something sturdy, protect your head, and hold your cover so it stays over you.
  • The doorway trick is a myth from old unreinforced buildings — modern doorways are no stronger than the rest of the wall, and running outside puts you under falling debris.

Teach it today — no prep

Hazard hunt + drill. First, students survey the room: what would actually fall in a quake? List it. Then run Drop, Cover, Hold On for real — ten seconds, timed. Finish with the myth check: doorway, running outside, or under the desk — which one does the science back? It's a drill they may genuinely need, taught as a game.

Trained and ready? Prove it at Stop 6 — Trembling Hollow. Free, no logins, progress saved on the device.

Enter the Realm at Stop 6

Resources in this training center

Worksheets, reading passages, flashcards and printables for this lesson are being added — new resources land here first. Get one email a month when they do, or browse the whole free library.

The hands-on half: the Quake Escape Adventure Kit puts six real specimens, six Digs, six Gemlings and the Realm map in your students' hands — $19.99, or $15 a student for classrooms. The rarest Gemling in the set glows in the dark.

More Quake Escape training

Plate Boundaries · How Earthquakes Happen · Earthquake Vocabulary · Seismic Waves · Earth's Layers · Earthquake Safety · Enter the Adventure →

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