Earthquake and Tsunami vids for kids

RantWoman is still busy observing National Preparedness Month, #NPM 2013   #Natlprep talking about whatever wanders into RantWoman's attention related to#disaster #preparedness.

Here in the Northwest we have EARTHQUAKES. Here are some kid friendly options for talking about earthquake #preparedness. RantWoman apologizes for visually boring presentation. RantWoman expects some will be reading on devices where they do not want to wait for videos to load--until they decide to click on links.

This scientific item is great for any kid big enough and nerdy enough to keep asking "But Mom, WHY and WHAT HAPPENS?" It is no darn help as far as getting batteries and crank radios, but SOME nerdy little (or big) kids need the WHY before they can concentrate on the batteries.
http://youtu.be/hlePrsXTGxQ


Look. RantWoman apologizes. RantWoman imagines many of her readers are just trying to make lists and help their kids stow needed items and RantWoman keeps getting distracted. This time the distraction is a video called Kids Stand Watch about kids powers of observation and a very big earthquake in China and how kids paying attention to what they observed made a big difference. If RantWoman knew when to quit, she might make this the whole lesson:
http://youtu.be/3_OtZFUenII


But now, what happens in Earthquakes and how might we prepare / be aware?
Seismo Susie and her shake table: Susie keeps doing things that would help her prepare for an earthquake and keeps getting clobbered anyway. She doesn't quite have "Drop Cover and Hold" down.

Idiosyncratic #accessibility comment: This video has a lot of the kind of visual detail RantWoman, even in her officialliy could see days, would not have noticed without being up close or having screen enlargement. Who among those who watch this might have similar issues?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbVDEzesfAs


Just to keep things simple for Seismo Susie, a Drop Cover Hold DCH video, from somewhere in the Caribbean, a famous zone of recent seismicity


And just to remember that in the Pacific Northwest we all live on the Pacifc Ring of Fire a Drop Cover Hold curl up like a turtle video from New Zealand:
http://youtu.be/1s6hfbxb0EA

Finally, also topical to the Northwest an animated tsunami item. If a kid asks, but can tsunamis happen here... a question for another day:
http://youtu.be/aiBR45Ntk_0
The video is cute. It probably works for a lot of adults too.

RantWoman is amused that the cartoon characters emerge from a major disaster looking surprisingly clean with hair mostly undisturbed and little visible results of disaster. The warnings are good, and maybe it's not so good to scare people TOO MUCH. The directions and issues are clear though.