People in panic and fear racing from the scene in clouds of dust and smoke.
Pakistani news channels showed buildings shaking in the southern city of Karachi, where people in panic came out from offices and homes, AP reported.
For example, the recently opened Tokyo Cyber Clinic is developing, with help from Waseda University, a virtual Tokyo subway (overcrowded for realism) to treat people who panic when surrounded or touched by others.
In fact many observers believe that, because people might panic unnecessarily, the Fed will wish to avoid raising interest rates in November or December though it might be ready to risk a rise in October.
His research has shown that people who experience panic attacks tend to suppress their emotions.
Severn Trent Water urged people not to panic and to do all they could to conserve water.
Wang urged people not to panic and urged them to immediately seek medical treatment if they think they were stabbed.
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Officials stressed that children would have to drink a lot of it before it harmed them and urged people not to panic-buy.
"We don't want to panic people, " West Hollywood Councilmember John Duran said.
"As expected in such situation people started to panic, started to sell Bitcoin in mass (panic sale) resulting in an increase of trade that ultimately froze the trade engine, " it said.
If the adrenalin response continues to fire off too regularly, then the body manufactures more, and eventually the mechanism fires off unexpectedly, which incidentally explains how people can have panic attacks at 2am in the morning when they should be asleep.
People were beginning to panic, but after half an hour, the power came back on.
After Mr Mandela was admitted to hospital late on Wednesday, President Jacob Zuma said people "must not panic".
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But in other parts of the city, the story is grimmer and there is panic and people are rushing back home.
Obviously, it was a bit of a panic and people were worried because they thought they were going to have to lower the lifeboats.
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Dr. Doraiswamy says he recommends meditation for people with depression, panic or anxiety disorders, ongoing stress, or for general health maintenance of brain alertness and cardiovascular health.
People very frequently make panic sales when the market crashes.
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Two computer programmes have been approved for use in the NHS - Fear Fighter for treating people who have phobias or suffer from panic attacks, and Beating the Blues for treating people with mild to moderate depression.
Once the panic eases, people will no longer be happy holding lots of non-interest-bearing currency.
"The quake has created huge panic among the people, " one resident of Tabriz told the BBC.
"It looked like people wanted to induce a panic, " said Schwartz.
President NICOLAS SARKOZY (France): (Through Translator) When financial institutions have lost all credibility, markets are in chaos and panic reigns, people look to public institutions for a solution.
"There was a panic reaction, people fear a scandal like Enron or Parmalat as soon as they hear the term 'accounting problems', " said investment analyst Thomas Veillet of Swiss firm Dynacapital.
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The news is not cause for widespread panic, but people at risk -- those who live in or have traveled to the areas where patients live, or have been in contact with pigs -- should watch out for symptoms and get tested if they occur, Short said.
Lehman Brothers ( LEHMQ - news - people ) set off another such panic last fall.
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