Thank you for fact checking. The scenario below makes sense.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray1" steve.sundur@ wrote: > > > > If I am not mistaken, it is not recommended to take shelter > > underneath tables or desks. Better to be beside them as > > you are more likely to be crushed being under them. I think > > that's the case. Don't have time to fact check right now. > > I was just reading an article about the earthquake, and it > said the advice not to get under anything, which I had also > seen somewhere, has been strongly disputed; it referred to > an article on good old Snopes.com: > > http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/triangle.asp > > Snopes quotes American Red Cross officials saying this > advice is relevant only if a building pancakes, which is > unlikely in the U.S. The guy who wrote the advice based it > on earthquake studies in Turkey, where building > construction is shoddy and pancaking is frequent in > earthquakes. Also, he based the advice on a study that > didn't actually simulate the shaking of an earthquake, it > just pulled the columns of the test building down, which > gives a very different pattern of collapse. > > And finally, he made claims about his own credentials > that are highly suspect. > > So Snopes says to take the guy's recommendation with very > large grains of salt. The Red Cross continues to advise > getting under a table or other piece of furniture rather > than lying down beside it. >
