http://cbs11tv.com/

breaking news. click on live coverage about the earth quake. it goes to la channel 2

Doorway, but away from windows, is for quakes.:wink:

If in a vehicle, supposed to stop. (Learned that after I had continued driving during a quake. :eek:)

HOLY CARP WOMAN! Grab the bottle and find a safe place! Check in when you can. :hug:

Yowsa!!! Stay safe and under cover! I agree with Cin, grab a bottle, a safe place and claim it!

I was just watching the news coverage. I'm glad you're OK. I have a niece that lives in Berkley. I tried to call her but didn't get an answer...hope she's OK.

Ya'll stay safe and watch out for the aftershocks. Keep us posted on what's going on.

Victor lives out that way. Anyone heard from him? I'll have to check the other posts as he's probably already posted somewhere.

Keeping ya'll in my prayers. Don't ya wanna move to GA? :)

The USGS site -
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/

stay away from glass & any tall or heavy things that could fall on you.
If you have a sturdy desk or table - get under it.

Glad your'e ok, Shappy! Geez, what's w/all these earthquakes? When we had them in Illinois, I freaked!!!

Hope all is safe and HEY, nobody told me to grab a bottle when we had ours. Dang it, another missed moment!

take care everyone; that's way too scary!:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

THey are doing construction on our floor and the architect just walked through to check if anything was damaged from the quake.

I was talking to him about the quake and he told me that the doorway was a an old wives tale and that for a quake there was nothing structural that it would do for anyone.

He recommended finding a large object and laying on the floor next it that way in the ceiling or wall collapsed it would creat a pocket since the object you are next to would bear the brunt of it. So for next time I have a safe place picked out. :p Did I mention the architect was cute?

Kelly if I move to GA can I have my own room?

*passing whats left over in the bottle to DM* Drink up!

Now why do I think that I heard the following:?

"When in an earthquake, the safest place in the house is the bathroom, because of all the sound structural piping".

I could swear I heard that somewhere.

I wonder why FEMA advises people to get to a doorway - if it's a loadbearing one?

http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/earthquakes.shtm