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Originally Posted by RickM
When you get hit by a quake do you run out to the yard or street to get out from under potential hazards?
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Depends on where you happen to be. If you are on landfill, your house is going to fall down, which is good to know, but if it hits at 0500 and you get up at six to go to work that does not help much.
If you are in a solid structure, they say get in a doorway, stay away from windows if you can, don't take the elevator down if you are in a tall building. Even if you are in the street, maybe some old lady has a harp in her second story bay window and it falls out(I mention this, as it happened to a friend of mine, fortunately the harp was bigger than the window, and we pulled it back into her living room for her)
Don't turn on the lights until you are certain there are no gas leaks. Turn off your gas at the meter if it was bad and you are liable to have leaks, better cold than dead. If you live somewhere earthquakes are likely to happen, the phone book probably has a to do list, disaster kit(food, water, radio, flashlight, it was in that duck and cover movie as I recall)