Then to localize your information talk to emergency management personal in your area. Usually police, firefighters and medical responders can help. If you live in a big enough place, there should be some sort of local director for emergency management.

But, just to be dutiful, I think I should point out that running out of the building is not really the recommended course of action in an earthquake unless the building you're in is all full of stuff toppling off of shelving. From FEMA's “What to do During an Earthquake” info sheet: “Research has shown that most injuries occur when people inside buildings attempt to move to a different location inside the building or try to leave.”

That quake, of course, wasn't quite strong enough to cause any major damage, at least not in a place with as strong building codes as we do here. Remember, that an equally-strong quake would have done a lot more damage not just in a third-world country, but even places like the Midwest or England, where they have a lot more unreinforced masonry buildings. Notice that you hardly see any brick here?

So the good thing about a quake like the one we had this week is that it didn't really hurt anybody but at least shook us up to remind us that we do have quakes, and that we need to be aware of earthquake safety.