One man said he felt the road start to buckle when the earthquake began.

NPR: Earthquake Rocks China's Sichuan Province

You pass flaming oil wells, through the emirates of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, before the endless development withers and the straight road begins to buckle towards the Musandam border, where a cliffside track winds around the fractured coast.

BBC: Oman��s sleepy Musandam Peninsula