Earthquake: The possibility of experiencing it in india(bangalore) is very less, so I am in japan to get a hang of it (infact i have already experienced my 4th earthquakes & counting.....).
First one: (5 days ago) It was right in Tokyo, about 4.2 on Richter scale ... all I can remember about this was a next room girl screaming at 5:00 am in the morning. Sleep deprivation didnot allow me to experience that.
Second One: The Big One: (yesterday) This is an amazing, scary, not for the light-hearted kinda experience. That morning I was really feeling sleepy coz previous day I had bought a canon camera and was testing it whole night. I was working on my comp, i felt sleepy .... so I just kinda slept on my desk.. when i got up it was already 10:10 am, so i was getting ready for office.
Suddenly it struck, first i thought the building is swaying because of strong gust of wind(happens sometimes), but when it started to sway even more and more ... i started getting scary .... I went to my window and just looked down. ... man if I had shot that, it would have been an amazing video ... hotel was literally swaying like a train! Then I just came out of my room and saw people ... even japanese hotel staff running. That was not the end, the hotel itself was creaking like hell.... I thought the hotel would collapse. Luckily, the quake was not strong enough for me to tell this story another day. The hotel kept on swaying for 2 mins .... even if the quake lasted for 30 secs, the hotel sways just counter balance the forces. That made me think i should immediately leave for office ... or rather get out of this big building. So I immediately packed off and left for office.
Third One: (yesterday afternoon) I was chatting / explaining how I experienced a M6.8 earthquake .... the dizzy experience. I am still feeling that while i am typing this, earth quakes kinda upset your equilibrium ... you always feel that earth is swaying. Suddenly it strikes again .... this time it was M5.6 quake or rather aftershock. I was in office (4th floor) ... so it was not as magnified or powerful as previous one, but it was enough to scare us in office.
Fourth One: (yesterday night) We were about to round up a days work, we were doing some functionality tests. It struck again, this time it was a midrange quake about .... M6.6 on richter scale. Again it was powerful than previous one, lasted about 10-20 seconds .... that set the tone for the night.
The whole night i felt my hotel or ground beneath me was cheating US. It just kept swinging or my balance was lost.... i dont know! Finally I had to have couple of beers to console my self. Luckily no quakes & hence i survived one more day to write this.
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