Fabian <lajzar@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Kevin Gowen hu kiteb:
> 
> > I never understood the Japanese practice of hiding under things during
> > an earthquake.
> 
> Me neither. You should really hide next to something, not under 
> something.

If I'm in a Japanese-style house during an earthquake, I do look for a
sturdy table or desk, but if it's a reinforced-concrete building, I look
for a doorway or immediately under a ceiling beam (on the grounds that
there's a similar sturdy beam underneath). 

Used to hate Earthquake Practice at work, where they'd make us crawl
under those flimsy grey desks that never get cleaned and crouch there
until the wardens said the 'quake was over (didn't understand why we had
to crouch, not sit on the floor).

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