Earthquake

An earthquake occurred in Chengdu yesterday. I had never experienced anything like this before. I was talking to a friend on skype when the windows started rattling. I thought it may be a big truck or something, but the rumbling didn’t stop, instead it intensified. At that point I went outside. The ground was shaking like some sort of amusement ride. Crazy.

There have been no injuries in our university as far as I know. People were advised not to go to floors above the second floor in our building, s a lot of people started sleeping outside until it started raining, when they came into the main hall.

I didn’t feel many aftershocks sitting on the grass, but others felt them. Chengdu got away pretty lightly, but according to the news on TV, many people have died in other places. Troops are trying to get to mountainous areas to rescue people.