Did anyone feel the earthquake last night?

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• • Danmairen
    December 26, 2008
    427 posts
  • I am an earthquake virgin so please be gentle. Anyway,, on the 26th at 2.20 am I experienced my first earthquake here in Kunming. It wasn't a big deal I guess but I could clearly feel the building move and I saw lose hanging objects swing around. My neighbours ran downstairs but the whole thing only lasted about 10 seconds. Did anyone else notice it?

• • Philou
    December 26, 2008
    29 posts
  • didn't feel it.... but there was actually 2 earthquakes at the Myanmar-China:
    http://tinyurl.com/8l5tp8

    On USGS website (American), it seems there was only one: not the one you felt (2:20 - 4.3 - Myanmar) but the 2nd one at 4:20 am in China. it was stronger : 4.9 according to China, 4.7 according to USGS.

• • Lester
    December 26, 2008
    9 posts
  • I felt quite a strong shake, a bit after 2 am, near the intersection of Long Quan Road and the Second Ring Road, a rather smaller one, around 3:15. No damage to buildings, glass, etc.

    Lester

• • Ishmael
    December 26, 2008
    15 posts
  • I felt a little one about 2:30, was asleep by 4:20.

• • fairyp
    December 26, 2008
    4 posts
  • I was sleeping deadly and didn't feel anything at all...

• • Ashlee
    December 26, 2008
    4 posts
  • i felt it strong,lots of my classmates ran downstairs

• • Xiefei
    December 27, 2008
    135 posts
  • Kunming's not that far from Myanmar, so I bet you felt that one.

    Philou, your url appears broken. Where was the China one?

• • zlif23
    December 27, 2008
    157 posts
  • It is in Yiliang, 4.3, only 32km from Kunming

• • Philou
    December 28, 2008
    29 posts
  • yes, sorry for the broken url, i wanted to point to this chinese article using google translate, but let me give you the chinese article directly:
    http://tinyurl.com/7vok3b

    32 km from Kunming, are you sure?????? 4.3? and it didn't wake me up? shoot! I thought it was also near Myanmar-China border.
    Reports of the earthquakes are as bad as the salvador bombing. really wonder why this 4.3 earthquake is not on USGS:

    http://tinyurl.com/7l4xgg

    <img src="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/[...]

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