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6 mars

Bad earthquake Strikes.

Today is the first time I feel the big earthquake in reality, that doesn't mean this is the first earthquake I've ever experienced, The one I had memory is in Yanlin county, when I was in primary school, I missed one that everybody felt in the university in 1999 because I was in a bus at that time. This one is by far the biggest.
 
I was sitting in a meeting room with many colleagues, having a conference call with our US colleagues, suddenly, I felt the chair is somehow moving back and forth, and the initial feeling was maybe somebody is touching my chair, but then one colleague asked " Is this an earthquake?". I looked at everyone, everybody was quiet. We realized it is an earthquake. During lunch we felt it again.
 
With the very advanced communication channel nowadays, a sms was sent to one of my colleagues who is Indonesian Chinese, there was a 6.3 degree earthquake happened in Indonesia, at Sumatra.
 
It's a little bit odd that no one really evacuate in the office we were visiting, some said because this type of feeling is so normal to Taiwan people. It's really hard to imagine that Taiwan get earthquakes at this magnitude very often, and even under this kind of conditions, they can still built so many fabs and tall buildings.
 
Many bad things happen in these days, massive snow in North China, and then this earthquake, hope my family is doing ok in China. Afterall, safety and peaceful life is most important.