Where to be During an Earthquake

I was just going to say "not at the epicenter", but your advice was much more helpful.

thanks op

I hope to be outside

I was thinking "In an airplane". But this is interesting info.

Thank you, OP! You probably just saved my life, if I'm ever in an earthquake---because I've been rehearsing where I would hide during an earthquake---under my huge, heavy, wooden Sears desk, or in a doorframe. I will pass this info to my sons, too. Thank you so much!

BUMP

i read this a few years ago, makes sense

i have only been in one, i much prefer tornados

This man (Doug Copp) is a fraud.

Just Google him and see all of the articles about how he causes more harm than good when "rescuing" people, he inflates his stories, apparently received money from the 9-11 victims fund FRAUDULENTLY, has duped unfortunate trusting people for thousands of dollars, claims to have "the first" dead body detecting machine which is actually just a gas detector and you can no longer buy on their website.

The department of justice is investigating him for fraud and his "tips" are potentially deadly.

Please stick with the REAL experts like the Red Cross.

[link to www.abqjournal.com]

" Copp's persona as an international rescue expert has its roots in 1985 when Copp said he dispatched himself to his first disaster.
He was watching a television report on the Mexico City earthquake and saw bulldozers approaching a collapsed building. Copp, who has said that he worked for demolition companies in the early 1980s, said he realized that anyone trapped in that building alive would be killed.
He went to Mexico City and began his career as a volunteer responder to earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, tornadoes and other disasters.
Seven years later, Copp was living in Alameda, Calif., and had organized his American Rescue Team International when he criticized the state of California's approach to earthquake safety, saying that people who "duck and cover" as the state recommended would be killed.
He advocated a technique called the "triangle of life," a phrase he coined, in which people in earthquakes are supposed to get next to solid objects such as beds or desks instead of under them for safety.
He pointed to his Mexico City experience to support his claim.
When a county official sent an inter-office memo to his staff saying Copp's advice was "nonsense," Copp sued for defamation.
Copp lost the case and the Superior Court judge ordered him to pay about $4,800 in court costs. Copp appealed and also lost on appeal."

I would have thought about 1000 miles away

Great info.
Thanks, OP

Sad but my conception of physics tell me that he's right.