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On my final night in Chitral, a very big earthquake, 6.7 on the Richter scale, woke me up. Watching the walls and roof of my building physically moving was a frightening experience. Fortunately, after 40 seconds, by the time I had escaped outside, the shaking had stopped and no major damage had been done