On the friday night people in our area heard some unknown sounds and there was a rumour about earthquakes. Well, I didnt hear anything, and i came to know about those on the later day in the news channel and our relatives called us to enquire our safety. That day there was a commotion near temple with TV channels vans and few police. When enquired, an old man told us that tv channels were there to cover the earthquake story. Our area is a nice and calm place which usually wont attract media attention. Lot of cameramen were there so people surrounded them, and kids were waving at the camera. With all this hungama geological department installed equipment in our area to check if its really the earthquakes which caused the anonymous sounds. This is the story of Saturday.
On sunday night i went out to market by walk, the moon light is great , the weather is cool, so i walked a lot and by the time i reach home my relatives scared my mom about the earthquakes and made her stand outside for sometime. They have got the news that there are few more earthquakes in our area and tv channels broadcasting that people are panicked and running on the streets. I switched on the TV to watch a commotion of people and few kids waving at the camera in broad day light. That was the video coverage from the saturday. At the time, they were broadcasting that coverage, people were eating mirchi from the nearby sweetshop at the exact same location. . A geologist requesting people to calm down on tv. These tv channels are showing cracks in the paint of a wall (which is common in every old building). The whole program was giving an impression that there was a earthquake of at least 4.5 Richter scale reading. The commotion of people and the cracks on the wall is giving the visual support to that. And all the mobile phones and landline in my home are ringing like in a call centre getting calls from my relatives and friends. And the geological equipment have not found anything yet. And this news only covered in local news channels especially TV5 and none of the national news channels covered it. I am at home, safe and sound , writing blog.
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