Experienced my first earthquake yesterday!

On yesterday morning, I took breakfast at InterContinental Bangkok's 37th Club Lounge and enjoyed a conversation with a nice Bavarian woman, Julia of the Club Lounge. Suddenly I felt dizzy. I did not drink anything the other night and I went to bed all night, so I felt it was a bit strange. But that will continue. After a while I noticed what was going on - I did not feel dizzy, but it was an earthquake. My answer is this:

Disclosure time: I have never experienced an earthquake. I am a little scared of them. In fact, this is the reason I am not thinking about moving to Seattle. With more than 20 seconds, the club floor was shaking. Like, shake seriously

Julia (club's waiter) instructed to keep calm and to climb the stairs. Now, go up the stairs, you walk through the rooftop pool, I see that the water is flowing out there, it makes me even more afraid. As if I had participated in the Olympics, I skipped the flight of 37 flights. Nobody was evacuating and I finally found out that it was very strange that I entered the first floor. Again, I have never encountered an earthquake before, so I do not know how it works. I am a little looking forward to the street chaos, the 1000 people in the lobby, and the common apocalyptic style.

Sure enough, I fell down on the door on the first floor and thought that she knew what had happened, I went straight to the concierge desk.

Me: "No, it's just an earthquake, you know, the earthquake is swaying.

Oops! This is very interesting, I have never felt this hopeless feeling so far, so I am convinced that the world is reaching its end.

Ok, they know that nothing happened. Clearly, there was an earthquake in Myanmar, and only on some high buildings in Bangkok can feel an earthquake.

As a safety precaution, Julia kept the club lounge closed, and I was happy on the ground.

Has anyone ever encountered an earthquake at the hotel? Of course it was an interesting learning experience for me and I was confused by more than 100 hotels including Park Hyatt Shanghai and The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong.

I live only in Ecuador. I experienced two earthquakes in two months, which is obviously more frequent than normal, but there are hundreds of aftershocks, but I can argue that none of them have ever experienced. I woke up around 8 AM everyday by the first earthquake. However, when I woke up from a lazy sleep, this event was recorded with exhausted consciousness as if hearing thunder etc. Later that day, I learned that this is indeed an earthquake. Because there are no damage or human damage and these events are occurring frequently, I do not think that this news will arrive in Australia, so I will post a status and not worry about family and family friends Did.

Turkey has a long history of earthquakes. Earthquakes occurred in the North Anatolian Fault in 1939 and 1967, but these earthquakes were not as strong as the first earthquake in 1999. The earthquake was the most powerful earthquake in the world for over 10 years, especially because of the large number of dead. The 2004 Asian earthquake is now beyond this. After the flood in 1916, a strong dam was built, giving people a false sense of security. Furthermore, when communication is limited, storm warnings are transmitted to many people. Most people do not have TV or night radio, most people do not have their phone, and many people do not know the future danger.

Two weeks ago, Taiwan experienced a series of earthquakes that occurred on three different days this week. One of them was quite a big earthquake at Hualien (6.4 grade), another earthquake (5.7 grade) occurred the next day, causing a lot of damage, unfortunately some people died. Fortunately, our friends and acquaintances living in Taiwan are very kind and people living in the west experience a lower scale (like me). Therefore, we must reconsider our travel destination

In the last two weeks, the island experienced hundreds of earthquakes. According to the report, an earthquake of magnitude 9 occurred on May 4, 2018. This is the strongest earthquake that bombed the island for 43 years. Immediately after the earthquake, some beaches were photographed and retreated, but no tsunami warning was issued. For those unaware, large-scale island earthquakes can cause tsunamis. It is generally considered that the tsunami is showing signs of development as the coastline retreats after the earthquake.