It would seem from talking to a colleague and students today that nobody here at BeiGongDa felt either of the quakes, which suggests that either our buildings are nice and solid or we’re on good, solid soil. Or quite likely both. Unlike those up in the CBD, it would seem. And I was thinking about this and realised that Building 1, where I teach all my classes and where I was when the quakes hit yesterday afternoon, probably survived the ’76 Tangshan quake, which did some pretty serious damage in Beijing and Tianjin when it flattened Tangshan. That makes me feel a little more comfortable.
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