AI Chatbot ChatGPT: Boon or Bane?

By MARIAN OPAO & BEA CANJA

Students rush down the stairs in panic as a powerful earthquake ensues, amidst the heat and chaos. What would happen to our beloved school when an earthquake as striking as the one that happened in Turkey and Syria last February 2023, were to happen here?

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake happened in Southern Turkey near the border of Syria last February 8, 2023. Which was followed by an aftershock of magnitude 7.5 located 95 kilometers to the Southwest.

4,300 residents were killed and more than 15,800 were injured after the devastating quake. Centered in southcentral Turkey—where thousands of Syrian refugees stay as well as the aid organizations based around that area.

“If it were to happen here, I don’t think the school would survive, there’s so many cracks [by] just looking at the buildings.” Said Alyza Doctolero, A grade 9 student from E. Rodriguez Jr. High School, stated. If an earthquake that powerful hits our school, would our school be destroyed or would it just add bigger cracks in the school?

The school was built in the 1950s,