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みんな、おちついて Or みんな、おさまって

Say there's a earthquake and teacher says to his students "everyone, keep
calm." How'd he do that in Japanese?

I'm asking here because translators don't explain why they used the word they
did and not others.
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Can I use both おさまって and おちついて to say "everyone, keep calm?"
The natural choice is おちついて.

おさまって sounds grandiose and even funny, unless you were saying this to a
furious god rather than school kids. Basically, when we want to say "calm
down" out aloud to someone, おさまれ／おさまって is almost never used, except for by
stereotyped samurais, fictional
[chunibyo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_anime_and_manga#Ch.C5.ABniby.C5.8D)
characters and such.

収まる is relatively more literary, and tends to be used when someone is angry or
furious, rather than simply confused.

>   * 彼【かれ】の怒【いか】りが収まる。
>   * 暴動【ぼうどう】が収【おさ】まる。
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