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UW grad recounts ‘scary’ quake in China

A former Wisconsin resident working in Shanghai was shaken by last Monday’s tremor in China, but at first he didn’t even realize it was an earthquake.

“I thought I was not feeling well because I suddenly felt dizzy. I felt the room was reeling for no reason,” wrote Frankie Ko, a 1973 University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical engineering graduate working in Shanghai, hundreds of miles from the quake’s epicenter.