The Swiss watch brands, stillshaking off the near-death stupor of the quartz era, suddenly found this German phoenix uncomfortably hard on their heels.
But many residents there were also sleeping in tents because their homes had been severely damaged, and with aftershocks stillshaking the area, they were unwilling to risk going back indoors.
Mr. NEIMAN: If you use the metaphor of an earthquake, we're in the shaking stage and it's stillshaking and we don't know when it's going to stop shaking and how much damage is going to result.