Reply #71: Taipei, Republic of China

[dpbrown]

Several were a little like standing on a board that was slowly swaying back and forth.

But one we were only about one mile sideways and six miles up from the epicenter.

That one was like sitting on top of a jackhammer that went on and on for 15 seconds.

Fire alarms, car alarms all started, then the electricity went out and we started hearing crashing as pieces of buildings fell nearby.

I was in another gentle one in New Zealand, that hardly bothered anyone. I was sitting in a wooden table chair that suddenly started moving like its pieces were loose. Back and forth. Then I looked up and saw a picture hanging on the wall swaying back and forth and I knew it was an earthquake.

The other two Americans (who had drunk quite a bit of wine already) didn't believe me when I told them we had just gone through an earthquake, until I asked the person at the next table and had it verified by a "native Kiwi."

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota