From: ws@mbpdo.UUCP (Wolfgang Schelongowski)
Newsgroups: comp.object,eunet.misc
Subject: Re: call-for-participation
Summary: Earthquake experience
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:20:42 GMT
Followup-To: eunet.misc
Distribution: eunet
Organization: mbp Software & Systems GmbH, Dortmund

In article <1992Apr14.114419.10951@inra.fr>, 
	jldurand@lusignan.lusignan.inra.fr (Jean-Louis Durand) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to have some reports on personnal experience of the 13 april
> earthquake in Bonn. Did anybody notice it ?

In article <1992Apr14.114419.10951@inra.fr>, 
   jldurand@lusignan.lusignan.inra.fr (Jean-Louis Durand) writes:
> I would like to have some reports on personnal experience of the 13 april
> earthquake in Bonn. Did anybody notice it ?

Yes, I did. But first: It was NOT in Bonn. The epicenter was north 
of Aachen at the Dutch / German border, just on the dutch side, but
a german border town (name forgotten) got hit hardest. The people 
of Bonn and K"oln got their share, but the Dome still stands.

I live in the eastern part of the town Bochum in the Ruhr area
(do not confuse the rivers Ruhr and Rur). I woke up, didn't know why,
was dozy, got up anyway, left the sleeping room. Then I heard a strange
sound from above - yes, above. It seemed like a combination of tinkling
and somebody moving a broom on the floor above me. I was confused.
I don't recollect any "moving of the ground". About ten seconds later
the same thing happened, and a two paperbacks which had been lying flat
on a shelve fell on the ground. Now I got alarmed and really awake 
(adrenalin working !).

Burglars ? Poltergeist activity ? Or had I been playing too much
Ularn (rogue-variant game) recently and was now developing halluzin-
ations ? I looked for burglars. Then I got back into bed. Later that day 
all was explained by literally "down-to-earth" reasons. The followup
on Tuesday morning woke me up, but I didn't notice anything. 

I haven't seen any damages done by the earthquake HERE. Some people 
at my office were not even woken up. Of course they were not sleeping
at the office, but at their home :-)))

A cousin of mine who slept in D"usseldorf that night told my mother 
that she had definitely felt the earth moving. That town is about
50 km closer to the epicenter.

Amusing coincidence: One of the fallen books was Robert Heinlein, 
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Haug. It is about an art critic 
who lives inside the object he will be reporting on - the universe! 
But I'm just reporting on the earthquake.

By the way, there is a discussion on the earthquake in the newsgroup 
de.soc.misc. As all newsgroups starting with "de." are in German 
language, you have to understand German to read it. IMAO a posting 
in English would have been understood and you would not have been 
flamed for it.

> Subject: Re: call-for-participation
Do you really want to participate in the earthquake ? Too late ! :-)))
Besides, I do not understand what the Newsgroup "comp.object" has to do 
with earthquakes. But I am rather new to news, so I will not change it.
As my postnews forces me to set a Follow-Up-To and the other newsgroups
mentioned are unknown here, I will choose eunet.misc.

dsw
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