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RE: Experiencing a 5.3 Earthquake 37 Floors Up in a Panama City Apartment
Hahaha :-) A friend of mine lived in Santiago, Chile, and said people didn't really worry until it was a 7 or 8. Apparently, the structures are pretty earthquake-resistant, there. It sounds like they must be pretty good where you stayed, too! The apartment certainly looks nice. I bet the view was pretty amazing from up there.
They could install some sort of collapsing building escape pods, like those human-sized inflatable hamster balls paired with high-pressure helium tanks... I was thinking about that earlier, considering whether I could get patron funding for a trip off of Niagara Falls that way... :-)
Hey, I like the idea of the hamster ball! ;) I mean, if you're in a high rise and there is a major earthquake, there really isn't much to do. We went through a few larger earthquakes in California, but you just never know if they're going to start out small and grow or if you'll have a large aftershock. The view was pretty good. It was mostly of the hotels around, Panama Vieja and the Cinta Costera. It was so cool to watch the pelicans diving into the water for fish during high tide, but I couldn't get pics of them thanks to only having a phone camera. When it was low tide, all you saw was mud for about a mile.