Experienced an earth quake again A couple of weeks ago, one morning, when I had just got up and was sitting on the bed with my wife, I felt a slight swaying. Then I said "An earthquake is coming." My wife didn't believe. "I don't think so." she said. But, in just a while, the whole building was shaking very hard as I leapt out of bed. I took my wife into the bathroom, we couldn't think about anything; just wait till it stops, she cried. We both were terrified, and I thought again that I'm going to die. The earthquake went on for one minute; after it stopped, we went down to the garage as quickly as we could. Then we drove out of the building when someone was beeping nonstop behind my car. It was a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake I learned later; the epicentre was 120km from Chengdu. It killed 200 people, and about 10,000 people were hospitalized. A lesser than 8.8 Richter scale earthquake had happened here 5 years ago, and about 100 thousand people were killed in the big one.