

And said, "Wow, the door must be a good place to be," and they started teaching that. doorways began, actually, from a Red Cross volunteer in the 1952 earthquake that saw a collapsed adobe house with the lintel still standing. That in-the-doorway mythology has been floating around for a really long time. On the movie's portrayal of earthquake safety Unfortunately, what they're doing in the movie has really been shown to not work. So now we can recognize that an earthquake's begun so quickly that we get the information to you before the shaking gets to you. When I started my career 30 years ago, I would have, "Yeah, that's what we're trying for!" But everything we looked at, none of it worked.

Dwayne Johnson plays a Los Angeles fire department helicopter pilot in the film.
