Earthquake? There Must Have Been an Earthquake Near Beijing!
2006/7/4 12:00:48
Earthquake? There must have been an earthquake near Beijing! Just got home and the piano was shaking. Must have been an earthquake! Lasted about 3 to 4 seconds. I wonder if this is what it felt like in '76. I didn't have the chance to experience it back then -- this was the first time I clearly felt one. Not sure how many degrees it was.
Sure enough, it was an earthquake. Just saw the news. Coming back to add a few words. Magnitude 5.1 -- the shaking was already very noticeable. Not sure if there'll be more. The weather in Beijing has been a bit strange this year. I was just telling someone not long ago -- how is it that by June it's still not very hot, and it keeps raining? Could there be a major earthquake? The most critical reasoning is: from 1976 to today is exactly 30 years. In stock market terminology, this is a "time window" -- exactly 360 months. Does anyone know what month it was in '76? I didn't experience it personally so I'm not very clear. 360 is exactly the number of degrees in a circle, which means we've completed a full cycle. It's very possible this one isn't the biggest. Of course, I hope this possibility remains just a possibility. If one on the scale of '76 hits, it would be catastrophic.
A few more words -- I can't help but ask: over these past 20 years, how efficiently can our emergency systems still operate after being battered by so-called marketization? How much essential public emergency knowledge education have we actually carried out? If something major and undesirable happens, how reliable are the buildings that today's developers have put up? Many things are too late to reflect on and mobilize for after they actually occur. A solid, comprehensive, public-facing emergency response system is probably the only viable approach to dealing with such disasters. There's still so much work to be done in this area, and it cannot be addressed with makeshift measures.
缠中说禅 2006/7/4 13:20:18
Thank you. I saw it.