Earthquake in Taiwan.. just in time for MAX2004 China

Like I don't experience enough earthquakes in Japan, I come to Taiwan for MAX China and we get a huge earthquake here... Sitting up on the 6th floor of the Westin in my hotel room and suddenly the whole room starts swaying back and forth. I can hear the creaking of the wood and walls all over the place and the water in the bathtub is sloshing back and forth so bad it's almost spilling out. Yes, we just had a huge earthquake and it went on for what seemed like forever.

But all seems fine and there aren't any casulties reported even though the earthquake was centered about 200km from here with a magnitude of 6.0 to 6.5.

Just to note, that size of earthquake in Japan a few weeks ago put thousands of people out of their homes and destroyed a fair amount of older buildings in the area that it was situated. That earthquake was scary enough but I live on the 2nd floor of the apartment building and it's not so bad. 6th floor is insane... I could've sworn that things were going to start crashing down, including the hotel.

Shoulda got some vid of it.. but that just wasn't on my mind. All seems good still for MAX tomorrow, and I can't wait :D I'll try to blog a bit on how things go here tomorrow and the next day.

Posted by Graeme at November 9, 2004 01:25 AM