摘要:AbstractEarthquakes occur in the region where plate tectonic activity is still going on, and have killed more than one million people during the past 25 years. Earthquakes are natural hazards, which cannot be stopped but the hazards can be prevented from becoming disasters by taking appropriate preventive measures. The prevention such as re-building by the implementing appropriate building code needs much time and cost. However, we can easily shift the direction of bookshelf and other shelves not to collapse. This is because the direction of S-wave vibration depends on the area of the estimated seismic center. To make a teaching material for the understanding of the direction of P- and S-waves vibration is easy and cheap, and has much effect even on primary students. The damage to be inflected by earthquakes can be reduced significantly by not only theoretical study but teaching materials for earthquakes.