Shweta Agarwal, 27, was sitting on couch watching TV in the bedroom of her apartment on the 19th floor of South City's Tower III when she felt a jolt and the TV, placed on the wooden cabinet shaking. As the homemaker stepped out of the room, she found glasses kept on the dining table shaking and the glass windows beside the table rattling.
"I didn't waste a second. I just grabbed the keys, locked the house and ran towards the lift. I found my neighbor from the upper floor running down the stairs and she advised me not to take the lift. I ran down all the way panting," she said.
The young homemaker said many other residents, including kids screaming and crying also gathered in the open near the lawn. Residents waited on the lawn for about 20 minutes and started moving in only after the guards announced that it was safe to go back into the building.
The picture was same at many high-rise buildings in the city.
At Shree Krishna Garden apartment in Beleghata, class VI student Shivangi Jhawar was studying when she felt the chair trembling and the books on the table shaking. She ran out and told her mother who was also feeling dizzy by that time. They ran downstairs.
"Now this is the fourth time I have felt an earthquake in two years. It has become routine procedure to run down," said the Sushila Birla Girls High School student.
Mriganka Chakraborty, 42, could not decide for a moment whether he should ask his mother, who has recently had a fracture on her leg, to take the stairs or stay put in their 8th floor flat at Avishikta apartment off EM Bypass when the building started shaking.
The two, along with Chakraborty's wife Gargi, took the stairs.
"But we went down slowly because of my mother," he said.
"I didn't waste a second. I just grabbed the keys, locked the house and ran towards the lift. I found my neighbor from the upper floor running down the stairs and she advised me not to take the lift. I ran down all the way panting," she said.
The young homemaker said many other residents, including kids screaming and crying also gathered in the open near the lawn. Residents waited on the lawn for about 20 minutes and started moving in only after the guards announced that it was safe to go back into the building.
The picture was same at many high-rise buildings in the city.
At Shree Krishna Garden apartment in Beleghata, class VI student Shivangi Jhawar was studying when she felt the chair trembling and the books on the table shaking. She ran out and told her mother who was also feeling dizzy by that time. They ran downstairs.
"Now this is the fourth time I have felt an earthquake in two years. It has become routine procedure to run down," said the Sushila Birla Girls High School student.
Mriganka Chakraborty, 42, could not decide for a moment whether he should ask his mother, who has recently had a fracture on her leg, to take the stairs or stay put in their 8th floor flat at Avishikta apartment off EM Bypass when the building started shaking.
The two, along with Chakraborty's wife Gargi, took the stairs.
"But we went down slowly because of my mother," he said.
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