Snopes Report on Earthquake Safety

Less than a week after the blog post went out about the big earthquake that shook us in San Diego, I received an email called the “Triangle of Life” which has hit the internet and gives differing advice about how to protect yourself during an earthquake.  Not wanting to give out false information, I investigated.

Here is the results of advice in “Triangle of Life”: 

1.  The Triangle of Life is written by a gentleman basing his advice in the case of an earthquake on building codes in Turkey and not in the U.S.  The American Red Cross has disputed his article since the  construction of buildings and the building standards are not the same here.

2.   The basis of the advice in Triangle of Life wasn’t based on an actual earthquake.  Earthquakes come in rolling waves.  The experiment that was conducted for “Triangle of Life” didn’t produce anything resembling shaking so it doesn’t tell us anything at all about what would happen during an earthquake.

3.  There are quite a few articles linking the writer to fraud. 

Whether this is true or not, the bottomline is to stick to the original advice.  See more here.