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The exPeRIenCE

On Saturday morning , 25th April 2015 I felt too lazy to get up early.Laziness resisted me to study. Somehow i overcame my laziness and decided to start studying at around 11:45. But to my horror as soon as I picked up my maths book I felt something weird happening,this weirdness was never felt before-"My bed was shaking". I immediately understood what was going on..i told my roomies...they said that too felt the same. The three of us immediately picked our phones and ran outside asking everyone else around to do the same.We were six good buddies,while 5 of us were out ,our one friend was inside.The three of us again ran inside to get her. Actually she was sleeping and their roomies ran away without telling her anything..!!! (later i thought that why wont god punish us ?? Selfishness was now included in our discipline chart ).All of us within 30 seconds came out, trust me..the shaking of the ground was unbelievably terrible. The weather too was dreary..Black clouds and...

What to do when Earthquake hits

A series of frequently occurring earthquakes made it important for us to know how to reaponse when caught in midst of earthquake .Unlike other calamity earthquake comes without any warning , When ever earthquake comes , one should immediately take following steps(whichever is possible ) : If Inside a House : Drop to the ground and take cove under any piece of furniture until shaking stops. Try to stay way from things which could fall such as glass window , Lightening fixtures  etc . One can use doorway shelter if it is nearby and strongly supported. Since earthquake jolts may come in series once shaking stops run to open place and stay there for sometime . If Outside House : Move away from buildings , street lights. Stay in open till the shaking stops . If in a Moving Vehicle : Stop as quickly as possible avoiding proximity of buildings, trees, overpass , wires etc Once shaking stops start moving cautiously avoiding bridges,...

Shock in the midnight

It was around 11pm in the night of 7th September 2011, I was feeling very sleepy and was lying on the bed. As soon as i went into deep sleep , I felt as if someone is shaking me . Immediately i woke , what i felt that its not only me but the whole building is shaking . For a moment i was clueless . "what the hell is going on " i thought . Then suddenly it struck to me "Oh my god, its earthquake , am i fool not running to safer place". I came out of my room and shouted " run to safe place , else we all be buried and dead" . I was wearing minimum required clothes ,just picked up my t-shirt and ran towards first floor , so that if necessary will jump from balcony in the field . Since my area is full of buildings so going to ground floor and taking longer route towards open field was not safe. In those few minute a hell lot of thought crossed my mind, it seems to me that it may be the end .One thought which was not prominent was that i got good enough ser...

Learning from Fukushima

This article i have read long ago in one of the newspaper and found it analytically good . Hope you may also find it useful Events over the last nine days at the crippled six-reactor Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) complex, since the unprecedented earthquake-tsunami combine struck Japan's north-eastern coast , seem to be slowly moving towards a stable situation. Barring the sporadic spikes during March 15-16, radiation levels at distances more than 20 km from the site have not been abnormal. The single event of radioactive iodine release on March 12 seems, however, to have found its way into the food chain. But in the unfolding story of this nuclear disaster, the third worst after Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, there are a lot of unanswered questions. Evading safety requirements seems to be an endemic problem in the nuclear industry, as is a general lack of transparency on safety issues . For India post-Fukushima, the preparedness of th...