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Thread: Earthquake in Chongqing Municipality
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[quote=JABAROOTOO,287870]At 3.30pm today the earth began to shake............. I was having a rest and first the bed began to shake gently. this is not unusual with a lot of heavy traffic past my back door everyday and the blasting on constructions sites but this increased until the boxes on top of my wardrobe began to shake. I got up to have a look outside from my balcony. Buy now the floor was moving enough to convince me that I needed to get out of the building. I quickly checked what I was wearing, grabbed my key, slipped into my thongs and was heading down the stairs with another elderly couple who were wakened from an afternoon nap. Other residents already downstairs were hurrying away from the buildings. Looking up we could see them shaking and debris and dust was falling. Several men were trying to push the gates to the street open -these are padlocked for security reasons but cannot be opened in a hurry. I climbed over the six foot fence wearing a sarong wrap but the elderly and those with babies could only wait until the metal gave way on one of the bolts on the pair of gates. No serious damage, a few first time experiences for some. this was my second earthquake and subsequent tremors. That first one was back in the early eighties in the Los Angeles region of California. It was an eerie experience then as it was again today. Included is a photo after I went back inside to get a drink, my mobile, change my clothes.[/quote]
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