Monday May 12, 2008
Earthqauake in Beijing
I have experienced earthquakes before. Living in
California for a while, and even once in Tel Aviv, I remember clearly -
it was not a pleasant experience. But today was a completely different
experience. I was sitting in my office on the tenth floor of the
Chuangxin (Innovation) Plaza at the Tsinghua Science Park in Beijing,
China. I was on the phone, and I found my self saying: "excuse me, but
my building is moving, I think we're experiencing an earthquake". The
person on the other line yelled: "then what are you doing talking to
me? Get the hell out of there".
I went to the hallway to see a bunch of people, like me holding
cellular phones, looking confused, not sure what to do. The swaying
subsided. I returned to the office only to realize that we were
advised to leave the building. We did. Downstairs, a large crowd, all
or most holding cellular phones, was waiting for further instructions.
The All Clear came relatively quickly.
Turned out to have been a powerful earthquake, between 7.5-7.8 on the
Richter scale. That's no laughing matter. Anyway, all is well. It
was a scare.
Posted at 04:37PM May 12, 2008 by Amiram Hayardeny in Personal | Comments[4]
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