How to survive an earthquake

[Topper]

I just got an email from a friend of mine where she sent me a copy of Doug Copp suggestions
on how to survive an earthquake.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/triangle.asp

[Judee]

I just got an email from a friend of mine where she sent me a copy of Doug Copp suggestions
on how to survive an earthquake.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/triangle.asp

I remember reading about the 'triangle of life' a year or so ago, and thought it made perfect sense. Then I read that it had been proven incorrect. And so, I'm left wondering and confused about it. It still makes sense to me though.

[pyrite]

first of all, in my opinion,...survival in an earth quake depends on which type of earth quaking is going on....survival is as good as your building you are in, and as good as the ground you are standing on....,and some of what this guy says isnt true...there wasnt time for people to escape their cars when the freeway collasped in SF...it just dropped down crushing everything....i talked to people who were near that freeway when it just came down...
http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/eq2.htm

[Dera]

I lived in So. Calif. most of my life and rode out some fairly good-sized quakes. All of the advice has many pros and cons. So much depends on where you are and when. I did carry a kit in the trunk of my car with some stuff such as a flashlight, comfortable tennis shoes, a warm sweater, a blanket, different sized plastic bags, water and munchies. I can't remember all of it right now, but it didn't take much room and gave me some peace of mind.

We had a couple of rather "big ones" one morning. They were both in Calif., but not close together, really. Without looking it up, I think one was centered in Landers (desert) and the other, Big Bear, in the mountains. The first one woke me up. I slept in a water bed and always got a good sloshing around and rather stupidly had the head of my bed in a picture window that rattled loudly. Seemed like the EQs came mostly in the mornings. I always got up and put on a radio and TV to see where the epicenter was to see if was near any family or friends.

Since I was up and not in the mood to go back to bed that morning, I went out in my backyard in my robe with my coffee and began to water my plants. When the second one came, I actually leaned up against the house as I felt like I might fall over. The Oleander bushes across the yard were swishing hard, all in unison--like they were "dancing".

I actually felt the big Frisco World Series quake. I was alone working late in my office on the third floor above two underground parking garage levels. It didn't amount to much at all, but was enuf of a kind of dizzy feeling to make me put my office radio on to see if it was just my imagination or what. I hated that building.

When we had a quake while I was in that building, they rang a bell (school bell-type as it was School District HQ) Then we were all required to walk down the stairs (no elevator, of course!) and go stand in the parking lot until they rang the bell again as an "all clear". One time we had just gotten back to our desks when we got an aftershock and had to go back downstairs. When they rang the all-clear, I went down into the underground garage and got in my car and went home. Enuf is more than enuf for me. Luckily, I didn't get in trouble over that!

One morning I was on the freeway on the way to work. The quake was about a 6 and centered in Pasadena. It felt really weird, like I had gone over a big speed bump. I actually wondered if I could possibly have run over something or someone, looked back, and there was nothing there. I went on to work that day and I don't remember any aftershocks.

I think it is sort of a thing like "when your number is up, it is up and bye-bye". There really isn't enough time to react much and get situated. In the waterbed, I just grabbed a pillow and put it over my head in case the window broke.

[Project]

The guy who wrote that stuff is apparently a fraud, I read a ton of stuff about his scamming his way into 9/11 after collapse, and he got awarded $650,000 from the victim's fund because he apparently slipped while walking around and hurt his back. Real winner.

[Topper]

The guy who wrote that stuff is apparently a fraud, I read a ton of stuff about his scamming his way into 9/11 after collapse, and he got awarded $650,000 from the victim's fund because he apparently slipped while walking around and hurt his back. Real winner.

I found it interesting that the US Gov't sanctioned SNOPES says the opposite, that these suggestions are bang on.

[Judee]

That is an interesting point Topper.

[Project]

I found it interesting that the US Gov't sanctioned SNOPES says the opposite, that these suggestions are bang on.

snopes says the story is "mixed" truth. The whole dirt on this guy, from one of the reporters with him: http://www.abqjournal.com/terror/copp.pdf

[Topper]

What a triangle of stories