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1. 1. Tony on Nov 29th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

   My brother and I were at home reading when it started shaking a little, we then started talking about how it’s best to stand near a doorway if it’s a really bad earthquake. About a minute later things really started to shake up and we both rushed over to our door. It was quite dizzying. (in Trinidad)

2. 2. Jeremy on Nov 29th, 2007 at 8:34 pm

   The bigger worry on islands would be tsunami, I suppose, more than the earthquake itself. I don’t know the construction methods they use down there, but the biggest danger in many parts of the world is from light wooden structures collapsing, trapping but not killing people. The dangerous part is that many of them have cooking fires, and depending on the time of day it happens, can start fires.

   Earthquakes don’t kill people, all the after-effects do.

   (Living in Japan, it gets easier to live with the prospect of impending doom)

3. 3. Celia on Nov 29th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

   When I was little, we read Minn of the Mississippi, which has the New Madrid earthquake in it, and a picture of the ground opening up and houses, people, *horses* falling into it. crazy!

4. 4. Tony on Nov 29th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

   Jeremy: Yeah I think tsunamis were a big concern, but I checked online right after and they said there weren’t a threat.

5. 5. Stephanie Lionel on Dec 3rd, 2007 at 7:14 am

   Was in class with 50 elementary students. we’d been feeling tremors a bit often lately so were not petrified until the entire building of which we were upstairs started rumbling, moving and shaking right beneath us. lights went off and students so others running and heard screaming.

   they’d been following my diretives but they literally left me there and ran downstairs at that point.

6. 6. Tobias Buckell on Dec 3rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm

   Just glad it all ended up okay!

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