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Andrew Miller is my favorite person at Cricinfo.
I love the concept of tour diaries, and whenever anyone writes them at Cricinfo I make sure I read, if I’m not wrong, the last one was from Peter English, for the Super Series.
A thing or two about after shocks, seems like unless you’re awake, or have just gone to sleep, you don’t feel them, because they’re generally all less then 5.0 magnitude.
They’ve been coming down here in Karachi as well, especially towards the coastal area, where I am. At least 2 of them were documented by the media, for one of those I wasn’t home, but the other I did experience.
It came on October 12th, at 12:28 in the night, just two days after the big one. I was using my laptop, sitting in the exact same position as I am now, replying to a post on the KP factor, right here on the CoU when it struck. It was like some one was shaking the table, the chair, even the floor as I stood up in shock. But it finished in about 4 seconds, the Oct 8 one lasted on for well over a minute.
It was later measured to be 4.0 on the Richter scale, but it felt like a lot more, my family members who were asleep, were all to told wake up and we spent the next two hours out side our house, I didn’t sleep at all until 6 in the morning. All tall apartment building were in our locality were temporarily evacuated and their residents gathered in the grounds outside.
It was the most terrifying feeling ever, perhaps part of the way everyone reacted could simply have been down to the fact that it was just 2 days after the big one, now, after almost 3 weeks and 400 plus after shocks later, people have adjusted. And they have subsequently weakened in intensity, so fewer and fewer people notice them.
