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Thursday, 5 January 2012

Spot the difference

I recently watched a video on the news. It was taken during the earthquake in Japan on the 1st of January 2012. Someone recorded it in an office space. While I was watching it I had the feeling that something was not right. It took me some time to spot it. I was unable to find online the same video. But I found something close to it taken during the March earthquake again in Japan. 

Watch this, 0.23-0.53. 



In the video I watched the other day there were 5 people in an office. Even though the earthquake was quite strong, nobody tried to somehow protect themselves which is supposed to be an instinctive reaction. All 5 of them were holding/protecting the monitors of their desktops. More or less like in this video. Weird. Who are we?
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3 comments:

  1. Angela Vidal6 January 2012 at 15:27

    i spotted that difference too but i think,the reason behind it, is they have full confidence of the stability of their buildings, they are not worried about their safety. Blame the engineers..

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  2. Mando R.7 January 2012 at 03:07

    hmm yeah ok point taken. but i am not sure whether this is strong enough to impact on an instictive reaction. maybe.

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  3. Angela Vidal8 January 2012 at 20:22

    then trust on engineers by instick :P Dont you know the following quote: "
    Feel safe from earthquakes at nights,sleep with a civil engineer"

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