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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 02:42 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Earthquake in Shanghai?

Did you feel it just now? Our lights are swinging on the 29th floor

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Where did you feel it? Because here in pudong zhangjiang everything is normal.
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and I was thinking am I the only one who felt it. 25th floor near Nanjing Xi lu.
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mm.. thats interesting. I thought I was having some sort of moment!
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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 02:51 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Our doors are swinging here by Shanghai Railway Station. I thought I was just feeling light-headed or something. 16th floor. Some of my mainland colleagues who had never been in an earthquake before were pretty panicky

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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 02:51 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Felt something on the 53rd floor in Hongqiao while on the phone with the Mrs. She also felt something in JingAn
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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 02:56 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

One of the office buildings i (BM building on Wusong Road) just north of Suzhou Creek has just been evacuated.
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felt the same like dfoo and duguup, but then I realized the lamps are swinging quite a lot. interestingly no typical sound. I wonder if it related to this one:
http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/demo_run.pl#
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Thought I was having an embolism moving about.......getting ready to face my maker !
I am in Wei Hai Road - Zhong Kai

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Just saw the report. A 7.8 earthquake hit Sichuan close to Chengdu and was felt as far away as Beijing and Shanghai! Holy ****! 7.8?

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Plaza 66 is also evacuating people now. Strange... nothing felt here in Jinqiao.
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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 02:59 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Everybody run for the elevator when i told them about the earthquake and the felt it...duh! Thats more dangerous than the earthquake.

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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 03:00 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Yep, felt it in the office here - 27th floor, near Caoyang Station on line 3. From the postings above it was noticed more in this part of town than others. From Shanghai Railway Station just East of here to Jingan in the South and Hongqiao to the Southwest.
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http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/show_map.pl?lon =103.3300&lat=31.1100&magn=7.8&mode=each_quake&layer=background&layer= plates
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Felt nothing in here in caohejing. Pretty interesting though. Whats Shanghai's history with earthquakes?
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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 03:06 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

i'm in lu jiazui, and i thought for a moment that it was me feeling dizzy...it only lasted abt 20 seconds or so, that was all. no swinging lamps or similar here.
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Magnitude 7.5

Date-Time Monday, May 12, 2008 at 06:28:00 UTC
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 02:28:00 PM at epicenter

Location 31.084°N, 103.267°E

Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program

Region EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA

Distances

90 km (55 miles) WNW of Chengdu, Sichuan, China
150 km (95 miles) WSW of Mianyang, Sichuan, China
360 km (220 miles) WNW of Chongqing, Chongqing, China
1545 km (960 miles) SW of BEIJING, Beijing, China
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^ my bad... Source: U.S. Geological Survey
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Well the earth did move for you all......

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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 03:25 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

what now?

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hmmmmmmmm.
huashan lu is ok.
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My brother is in Chengdu.

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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 03:29 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

felt nothing in our office except it was fun watching the look of panic that came over all the locals as the heard the news. evacuations of some taller buildings around town as a precaution, though i doubt they canproperly inspect any of these buildings without condemning many of them. as many felt the swaying. rumor has it something in People's Sq collapsed though honestly not sure if related to quake or not.

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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 03:29 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Here's a real time map of world seismographic activity. Fun to look at -- if you're not actually in the midst of it. Didn't feel it in the Huamu area.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
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Post  Posted: May 12, 2008 - 03:31 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Felt it here at the Shanghai Stock Exchange. All tall buildings in the neighborhood appear to have been evacuated (because, you know, the best place to be in an earthquake is milling about beside the tall building you just exited)

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