What are you supposed to do when you feel an earthquake starting?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

Hide under a table? Do jumping jacks? What?

[soothsayer]

1. Stand in a doorway? (sturdy, supporting structure)

[AlGore-08.com]

6. They actually discourage standing in doorways now

Here's the checklist from the LA Fire Department :patriot:

http://www.lafd.org/eqtips.htm

[intheflow]

19. This was helpful.

Thanks for posting! :hi:

[kick-ass-bob]

2. I jump in the air so

I don't actually feel it happening.

[shoelace414]

3. move to the midwest

[davidinalameda]

8. heard of tornadoes and blizzards

I'll stick with earthquakes

[shoelace414]

21. Blizzards aren't bad

they just stop people from going places for a day or two.

[swag]

27. Somewhere near the New Madrid fault perhaps?

[bertha katzenengel]

4. get under a STRONG table, or under a desk, or in a pinch, stand in a

"true" doorway....

Hell, for having lived through every huge So Cali earthquake since 1963, I don't really know how to answer this. I'll only tell you what I have done: get under stuff I know is sturdy, or get outside in the middle of the street (residential).

[Terran]

26. Preferably away from a window

That and getting under a sturdy table are the two things I alwasy think of. Windows can shatter suddenly. I saw some big plate glass windows fall outward onto a sidewalk in Oakland when Loma Prieta hit.

[BootinUp]

5. Usually

they are so short you barely have time to do anything except enjoy the ride. But standing in a doorway or getting under a table are good answers.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Usually they are so brief that you don't need to do anything...

If it goes on a bit, then you want to be away from windows, and you do want to be in a secure, well-built part of your house, such as a doorway...

We just sort of sit up and take notice of the time, and of how long it lasts...Will it make it into the history books, or some such...

Are you living in earthquake country? Not to worry...

:hug: :pals:

[BootinUp]

12. jinx n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I AM not...ROFLMAO!

:rofl:

[flamingyouth]

9. We always learned to get under a desk.

At least that's what they used to teach in schools in the '70s.

[truebrit71]

10. Head between your knees....

...purse your lips, and kiss your arse goodbye....

;-)

[photuris]

11. According to the movies

Freeze, stare at a shelf of glasses until, until, until finally one falls, then grab your screaming, helpless wife and flee the building. You can use your extended forearm as a shield against falling ceilings.

[nini]

13. Welcome to DU.

:hi:


good one.. and so true!

[photuris]

18. Thanks, good to be here. n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

20. Run screaming from the building

with George Kennedy helping you out.

[Taverner]

15. under a bed is best

besides that under a table.

Doorframes give you zero protection, and you cant hold yourself up in them anyway.

[KamaAina]

16. "I'm from San Francisco. We stand in a doorway."

"I'm from Portland, Oregon. where do we stand?"

-overheard during the San Fernando quake in 1971 :-)

[miss_kitty]

17. the last two we had in Seattle I rode out on my sofa

yelling "WOOHOO!"

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[maveric]

22. I watch the hanging lights sway and say "Cool!"

Generally I sleep through earthquakes. Or they happen when I'm driving and I dont even feel them.

[cally]

23. I remember watching an earthquake expert

saying that she sat in her bed next to the wall. :shrug: I just move away from anything that looks like it will fall. Move away from bricks, windows, mirrors, heavy things overhead. Otherwise just stay put. Many get killed moving in and out of buildings.

[trackfan]

24. For the Northridge quake, I was in bed.

So I just pulled the pillow over my head and rode it out.

[bikebloke]

25. Duck, Cover...and something else

When I lived in Seattle and worked for this shite corporation, they'd have an annual drill where everyone was supposed to dive under their desks. The management-bots sternly forced everyone to comply with the silly exercise. As if knowing was not enough. Finally, a real quake occurred. Where were our nepotistic leaders? Standing by the windows trying to see other buildings sway.