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Much is still unknown about the control of posture and postural stability within the unstable environment of an earthquake. Hence, the objectives behind this study were to investigate the lower-extremity muscular response and head acceleration of human subjects in maintaining postural stability during the event of a simulated seismic activity. In order to achieve these goals, an earthquake simulator...