How do surgeons deal with earthquakes in the middle of an operation

Question

When the most precise dexterity is so critical and means the difference between life or death in surgery, how do patients mid-operation just not instantly get horrendously injured or straight up die during a severe earthquake when they’re getting jostled

In: Biology

Answer 1

Your impression of how often this happens may be exaggerated. For a surgeon to be doing a critical part of the surgery when an earthquake strong enough to jostle the surgeons hands against their will is crazy small. We are talking about M5.0 and up. Even so the first tremors are enough to pause before the major shaking starts.