I've experienced a few.
In the US, there was one I experienced early morning, but I was too sleepy to get up 😆 so I just enjoyed my shaking bed. It was a bit like getting a body massage 😆 This was b4 I was married.
On another occasion years later, I was giving my kid a bath, when I noticed the lights started shaking and some rumbling going on downstairs. I pulled my kid out of the tub and wrapped him and ran downstairs, standing below the doorway, which is the safest spot to stand. About 15 minutes later, started watching the TV news.
In India, in Gauhati, I experienced it twice while @ my sister's place. Once early morning, and everybody rushed downstairs, and we waited sometime b4 returning. On another occasion, same thing, but happened in the evening.
After so many earthquakes, I'm very fond of them 😆 - nothing happens, just some panic among people. Ideally, if I was on the roof, it would be ideal, but even otherwise, I've never experienced any actual destruction, so don't understand why standing next to a building in the event of an earthquake is any safer. Safest place to be during an earthquake is either under doorways, where things are not likely to collapse on top of you, or on the roof, where again, nothing is going to fall on you, and that everything you are standing on is going to cushion you from a free fall & resulting injury.
Edited by .Vrish. - 13 years ago