Oh yeah. It scared me because I was upstairs and I had never felt one before. I didn't know what was going on but I ran out of the house in my bathrobe.. lol
I can't believe you sheep eating the government grass on this. Natural Quake my ass! We shall call ourselves "Quakers." Or is that taken? Also: That Chair hated Freedom. Also: He msunderstimated the time it would take him to pushify all the chairs over. Also: Even though there were no weapons of mass destruction under the chair, the rest of those chairs can now enjoy the sweet sweet taste of liberation and freedom. (So long as they do not start a civil war with one another.) Also: The table and chairs are white so we all know who the real culprit must be. Ok, I'm done.
It was a Pokemon that did it, one of them was learning the move Earthquake and this is what happened. Duh. Don't you guys know anything?
It used to be recommended to stand in a doorway but they're not structurally that reliable as you point out. Now the advice is to find a place that's likely to shelter a 'void'. If you're in the house that would be near a solid piece of furniture for example.
They say that if it blows like it has before that Jackson will be leveled and everybody in it as well will become dust. After all we are just 55 miles south of the crater.