It is very rare that I get an email forward that I find useful/valuable. But this one was an exception. It's about how the standard earthquake safety (under a desk, in a doorway) is totally wrong. The physics of this articles claims make a lot of intuitive sense to me: voids in a collapsed building occur *next to* things which *aren't fully crushed*. You don't want to get inside something which is going to be partially crushed, as it will partially crush you. You want to be next to it. Here are the details (with the awful font and colors removed :) ):

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