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Old May 27th 2014, 10:45 am
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Anyone else feel a brief tremor around 9.45am this morning? My office chair slid a few millimeters. Thought I imagined it until I read Gulf News just now.
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Anyone else feel a brief tremor around 9.45am this morning? My office chair slid a few millimeters. Thought I imagined it until I read Gulf News just now.
I didn't feel anything but also read things about it, although the lights in the gym went out around this time too!!!! Spooky
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I didn't feel anything but also read things about it, although the lights in the gym went out around this time too!!!! Spooky
Lights going out in the gym are more likely to be the result of duff electrical systems than rumblings from Iran.
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Originally Posted by OleJanx
Lights going out in the gym are more likely to be the result of duff electrical systems than rumblings from Iran.
I don't know just was roughly the same time
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nope not in ab dabs.
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Yes - we had to evacuate the building (on SZR). After about 10 mins we decided it was too hot to stand outside for any longer and went back to work.
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felt in 22nd floor in JLT but only 2 of us out of around 50 actually noticed.
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Originally Posted by Inselaffen
felt in 22nd floor in JLT but only 2 of us out of around 50 actually noticed.
3 or 4 of us felt on 33rd in cluster W.
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I was in a meeting-didn't feel a thing, my building got evacuated- no one thought to tell us- came out to a scene from 28days later.

As in deserted not zombies, well no more than usual - boom boom.
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no, was asleep at the time so didnt feel this one
by the by, was asleep in Islamabad during the 2005 7.6 one as well and was physically thrown off the bed by the first tremor even before I was wide awake. That was a big one, by any standards. Kashmir was hit pretty bad. A lot of kids were in school then and well...
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Originally Posted by Mogs
Yes - we had to evacuate the building (on SZR). After about 10 mins we decided it was too hot to stand outside for any longer and went back to work.
Everyone used the stairs going down, of course.
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