This seems to be an area where the simplicity required for public education conflicts with the variety of situations. In New Zealand, we've changed between hidi

This seems to be an area where the simplicity required for public education conflicts with the variety of situations. In New Zealand, we've changed between hiding under a table, standing in a doorway (has stronger framing in wooden houses), and curling up on the floor. But always stay inside if you already are. People have been killed by falling masonry while exiting a building, and by falling rocks while driving home after an earthquake. During one earthquake, I went for the doorway but then worried that it was in an all-glass interior office wall so maybe the wrong type of building to be following that advice in.