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Old 08-24-2011, 04:36 AM   #23
ditpiler

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It likely wasn't strong on your floor and instead the actual shaking was minor but because you were in a high rise, and because high rises are engineered to sway in an EQ (instead of structurally fail like what happened in the 1981 Mexico City quake), so you likely felt the swaying which was amplified due to how high you were up in the skyscrapper. Just a guess.
I wonder if a physicist would know such things !
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