The first time I felt dizzy, it was like this. The laptop and books on the desk suddenly started to shake. Would the clocks turn into liquid and flow away like in Salvador Dali's paintings, causing me to fall down too? When I looked at the clock hanging on the wall in front of the desk, I noticed the calendar next to the clock swaying from side to side. Oh, the building was shaking. It was an earthquake. So I quickly grabbed my phone and ran towards the elevator.
The elevator was already crowded with people trying to get out of the building. "Earthquake... Earthquake..." People who ran out of the building tried to stay as far away from tall buildings as possible in open areas, standing there looking at the skyscrapers, trembling with fear. Suddenly, someone among those using their phones to make calls shouted: "An earthquake happened in Sichuan... Tongzhou also shook..." It was reported that a strong magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province 1500 kilometers away, and the earthquake in Tongzhou, eastern suburb of Beijing, reached a magnitude of 3.9. The crowd was noisy. "What should we do? Can we go back into the building?... I should have brought my wallet..."