Earthquakes & tsunamis
How seismic risk actually presents on the ground, what to do in the first sixty seconds, and the regional briefings travellers should pack.
- Live14 min readHow to survive an earthquake while travelling
The Drop-Cover-Hold-On rule, why doorways are a myth, what to do in a high rise hotel, and how to read a tsunami evacuation sign in a country you don't know.
Sources: USGS · FEMA · Red Cross · JMA · Earthquake Country AllianceOpen the guide → - Live14 min readTsunami evacuation, for travellers
Reading the natural warning signs your phone won't get to in time, how the global PTWC network actually works, and country specific signage.
Sources: UNESCO-IOC · NOAA NTWC · JMA · BMKG InaTEWS · SHOA · GeoNetOpen the guide → - Live12 min readAftershocks: what the next 72 hours look like
The Båth's-law rule of thumb, why the largest aftershock often comes hours later, and how to evaluate hotel re-entry safely.
Sources: USGS · FEMA · ATC · JMA · ECA · Red CrossOpen the guide → - Live13 min readEarthquake Early Warning, country by country
JMA's mature system, ShakeAlert in California, SASMEX in Mexico, GeoNet's Long-or-Strong rule, what the alert sounds like and how much warning you actually get.
Sources: JMA · USGS ShakeAlert · SASMEX · GeoNet · CWA · INGVOpen the guide →
Every claim in a Safe Trip survival guide cites a source you can re-verify. We start from primary agency guidance (USGS, NOAA, FEMA, WHO, CDC, IFRC, country-level alert services), supplemented by peer-reviewed literature where the agency record is incomplete. Travel-blog content is never used as a source.
/sources lists every dataset feeding our country scores; /methodology describes how scores are computed.