Set your mind back to 2007. Imagine yourself seated in your office building. Your meeting begins and the department manager starts outlining the sales forecasts for the following fiscal quarter. Suddenly you feel your chair lurch. Initially you think your stomach merely grumbled but then another jolt hits you. You gaze up to notice the office lights swaying and your colleagues all looking just as bewildered. The team realises that the office is experiencing a mild earthquake and everyone files down the stairs and out onto the street below.
Then, throughout that afternoon and evening, many Kenyans flood each other with warnings about future earthquakes scheduled to supposedly hit at midnight. Multiple Nairobi residents, along Mombasa Road in particular, pitch tents and sleep in apartment block parking lots for fear of the supposed scheduled aftershock earthquake and the commensurate feared building damage. But midnight comes and goes and no second quake hits the area.
