Earthquakes really pose little direct danger to a person.
People can't be shaken to death by an earthquake. Some movies show scenes with the ground suddenly opening up and people falling into fiery pits, but this just doesn't happen in real life. These men barely escaped when the front of the Anchorage J.C. Penny's collapsed during the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. One side of this Anchorage street dropped drastically during the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. These buildings in Japan toppled when the soil underwent liquefaction.