One Night in Beijing

Earthquake!!

Today, an earthquake of ritcher scale 5.1 hit 文安, a town 120km south of Beijing (circled in red).

Just before lunch, I thought someone was shaking my cubicle wall from the other side. I thought whoever it was, is quite strong to be able shake the cubicle. Man, my office at 7th floor really shook quite a bit. Then I started to feel giddy. I was quite sure the building is shaking liao. My colleagues started to make noise about the building shaking or earthquake or what. Following that, SMSes poured in from their husbands/wives from Zhongguanchun and Tianjin telling about the quake they felt. And so, we concluded that there must be a quake near us.

After lunch, we read reports on sina.com.cn (where I shamelessly pulled this map off, which they have anyway shamelessly pulled off map.sogou) and confirmed the location of the the quake ... just 2 hours' drive away only. Even my colleagues got quite freaked out a bit, coz they were reminded of the T'angshan catastrophic quake back in 1976. But well, when the quake hit us, we are still in the building. If it crumbles or what, it's already too late for us to run liaoz.

Just glad to be alive this very moment.

posted by taxi taker @ 10:38 PM