Up to about a 5.0 you might be okay if you stayed in the center of a pool if you are swimming when it hit, for example. One hit in orange when my 20 year old daughter was little swimming in my cousins pool. I think she was about 5 so I told her to swim to the middle of the pool and stay away from the edges on her float. She asked why the water was going out of the pool and sloshing around. Luckily, she was not injured by the time the quake ended. However, I was sort of a basket case worrying about her not getting knocked out by the edges of the pool. However, she was fine and didn't understand what was happening really.
If possible you want to be out in the open away from trees and power poles and telephone poles and any buildings. You don't want to be high up in most buildings because buildings tend to sway in earthquakes. In really big earthquakes tall high rise buildings might become death traps like being in the twin towers on 9-11. If the quake is too strong to stand up, a couch or a bed might be best to protect your head and vital organs from damage. But, be careful of beds against walls because your head might be thrown against a wall and you might be knocked out. Though the 71 quake threw my head against the wall I wasn't knocked out but had a headache afterwards. I couldn't stand up in this quake. If it is strong enough standing up isn't possible. So, get outside if possible without using elevators because they are likely to fail (in various ways in an earthquake). IF you are near the ocean when a really large quake happens try to get to higher ground especially if the sea goes out suddenly because likely there will be a tsunami. Don't go gathering fish or things in the ocean or it will likely be the last thing you ever do in this life.
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