Enhancing Youth Resilience to Earthquakes through Digital Interventions

The project is based on both the 1908 Messina earthquake, the most destructive earthquake in Europe to date, and the earthquakes in south-eastern Turkey in spring 2023, which killed more than 50 000 people and injured more than 100 000. The earthquakes have displaced more than 850 00 people in tent camps. The victims of the earthquake included both Turkish and Syrian refugees, who numbered around half a million in the region.
Using technology and academic insights, the project aims to improve resilience among young people and ensure that they are effectively informed and actively involved in earthquake preparedness and response strategies, contributing to a safer, more informed and engaged community that is prepared for seismic events.
The project team is working together to find ways to support young people in the earthquake regions, including through digital youth work.

The aim of this project is to strengthen young people’s resilience:
1. to tolerate awareness of the possibility of an earthquake
2. maintain their capacity to acency in the event of an earthquake
3. to cope with post-earthquake disaster situations.
https://www.humak.fi/en/harticlet/you-have-20-seconds-to-survive/