Once in my childhood I had heard that it was earthquake early morning and the utensils n all were making sound. That was wall I had experienced about earthquake. I was fast asleep that time…
This day was completely different. It was bright afternoon and I was happily chatting on gtalk in the middle of my work. People around in office were busy in their own works. In office you hardly hear anyone chatting with loud voice during noon.
There was small shake in my 5th floor office building. Till then I was adjusted to small shakes as it happened 2 days back as well sometime earlier. I was looking forward to something like that and it to end in few seconds. I kinda got scared when it did not stop instead started shaking increasingly, with sounds of window glasses cluttering, along with some colleagues hoo hoo sounds.
I was awestruck and got up from my seat as none was beside me. I switched off monitor and could not stand to the shake it was giving. I was holding the cubicle firmly and looking out and other colleagues.
Most of the native ppl were not panic by that time, lady beside me was saying don’t worry it will end soon. Nothing gonna happen, before she could finish those words everybody were really pissed off to the sake and noises around. Things near the walls started falling off; building was swinging madly, same with the nearby high rises. I was staring at the roof like when it ll fall. Seriously I was thinking all the people I know back home and imagining it as my last day. I never saw death to so near. This blood shaking was still continuing and every corner of the building was making crack sounds, door outside my floor was closed towards lift automatically. None allowed using the lifts, there were many announcements were going on but none were paying attention.
Things were getting worse with bigger shakes and never ending swing of the building. It extended almost 5-8 minutes of building shaking. Finally it slowed down. Not stopped!!.
I looked out as other buildings were swinging like coconut trees in the wind. It’s crazy. Nobody believes if building swing like that n they won’t fall down. It was shaking again and again in intervals. People were confused like whats happening. People were advised to stay inside building rather than going out on road, I came to know buildings are safer in that condition. Some of my colleagues had gone out to see how the building front my office were doing as they were newly built with 40 floors each. I found lots of people walking on the roads as if nothing big happened!! I learnt that even though they were frightened they were not showing it. Goodness..
When I came back to my desk, internet was not working, phone networks were down.
Luckily 3G on my phone was working and I could chat with my cousin and told him that I am safe and we just stuck with biggest earthquake of Japan. It is 4th biggest in the history of world. 8.9 M on rector scale!.. I guess I heard of 6 to 6.5 till then.
The rest of the facts of that day everybody in the world knows now….
