Share your good ideas to get safe from earth shaking...

I have never been in a real disaster, not fire, not earthquake, tho I have waited out a few tornado warnings, even got put in the hall way with the entire office once. Having said that, I probably know more about tornadoes than any other disaster, then you want to get into a small, interior room, or, even better, underground to be safe. If you are in an earthquake, the safest place is in a doorway. Because doorways are re-enforced to be structurally sound, they are the safest place in an earthquake if you can't get out of the building, sometimes even safer than being outside. With a hurricane (typhoon), the best thing is either to stay inside a building on high ground if its not a category 3 or higher. But if its higher than a 3, the best thing to do is leave if you are not in a building built to modern hurricane standards. Just to kind of let you know, this part of Texas hasn't had an earthquake in centuries, (maybe thousands of centuries) but Texas does get hurricanes and tornadoes frequently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Central_Texas_tornado_outbreak#F5_Jarrell_tornado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carla

If you are in a big earthquake you are not going to be able to run anywhere, it will throw you right to the ground unless you find something to hang on to. I have been in one and I know you need to get under something to protect you from falling things, I got under the bed and hung on to the frame until the first shaking stopped. The house did not fall down so I was able to find my way to my children and get us all outside and away from falling things before the next quake hit. Then I got the shakes myself from fear. All your planning will not help unless you are very lucky.

Hello geniustiger. As we have had the latest earthquake in the west part of China, which was 7.1 magnitude, I have learned something how to protect ourselves from earthquakes on the radio. There are three important things for us to do, the first of which is to run out of the building to a piece of flat and empty land without buildings. Do not try to get things from the house as the building will collapse in a few seconds or mintues. Try to make good use of the time available to run away from the house or the building. There are other two important points about how to make yourself safe from the earthquakes, but right now I have forgotten about them. I am so sorry for it, but if I hear it again on the radio, I will try to come back again for it. Take care.