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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Newsflash! Tremors felt in Punggol!
Update from BBC.com: Lethal quake rattles tsunami zone
We interrupt this blog to bring you a Newsflash. This just in via SMS from Faith-T, who lives in Punggol:
Faith-T: oh my gosh, I felt a tremor! Our block vibrated! now i'm standing around with a whole bunch of neighbours on the ground floor... Jimmy thinks its fun. I freaked
Me: That's what happens when you live in Mordor. Haha. I'm so going to blog this.
Faith-T: Yes. You blog it cuz i'm too freaked to go back into my home... i'm standing here watching more and more ppl congregate. Even seng kang felt it.
Me: Wow. Nuts. Hope it is not a big one.
Faith-T: well, its getting the neighbours talking to each other... Building social defence. lol. The dogs are barking non stop. Right now all those shows abt animal instincts is so coming back to haunt me and wierding me out. seems its quite a big shake... Got ppl saying their stuff was shaking and swaying. and i thought it was my cat playing under my bed again. Super strong kitty.
Me: Wow. If you have pictures of the crowd, email me. Too bad you cannot send me a camera phone shot. Maybe an MMS?
Faith-T: Ha ha we dont have mms phone. Lol. Very suaku one. Ppl starting to go home.
Me: Sigh. Like that how to capture the news? Haha. Time to buy new phone, you two.
Faith-T: I know! Tell me about it. Ok home now... See lah, i missed the end of frasier...
Me: Ya, glad you know you got your priorities right. Haha. End of frasier more important than end of life. Heheh.
Faith-T: Muahahaha! That's it, I'm going to buy a camera phone... tt can send email. Then can oblog like d big shot bloggers. This has been a life changing experience...
So far, no news on the regular news sites (not even "Must pay then can read" Online).
Nash_1126 of SPUG (Singapore Palm User's Group) forums reported the first tremors with a "Earthquake!!!!!: My block is shaking!!!!!!!"
cck, another SPUG member, said "hmm, didnt feel anything. Maybe i did, and thought it was part of CS (Counterstrike)!"
NEA has a brief update on this:
"The tremors felt in Singapore at 12:10 a.m. on 29 March 2005 were due to an earthquake that occurred in Southwestern Sumatra, approximately 600 km west southwest of Singapore. The magnitude of the earthquake is 8.2 on the Richter Scale. The epicentre is located at Latitude 2.1S and Longitude 97.0E."
MSNBC: 8.2 earthquake registered off Sumatra
"Magnitude is nearly as large as tsunami quake
BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 12:09 p.m. ET March 28, 2005
A large earthquake was registered Monday off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, describing it as a "great earthquake" with a magnitude of 8.2 on the Richter scale."
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Comments
Doubt the quake is big enough to cause any damage to the building here.
Anyway, hope they have fun "Building social defence".
I'm going bed. Haha.
Posted by: DK | Mar 29, 2005 12:52:43 AM
hmm, tremors were from earthquake in Sumatra. pray nobody got hurt.
update from NEA (http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/article.asp?pid=1198):
The tremors felt in Singapore at 12:10 a.m. on 29 March 2005 were due to an earthquake that occurred in Southwestern Sumatra, approximately 600 km west southwest of Singapore. The magnitude of the earthquake is 8.2 on the Richter Scale. The epicentre is located at Latitude 2.1S and Longitude 97.0E.
Posted by: Pauleon | Mar 29, 2005 12:59:51 AM
Wa lau, one after Christmas day another after Easter. Is someone trying to tell us something?
Posted by: et | Mar 29, 2005 1:15:18 AM
now we pray no tsunami for the next 3 hours. apparently, if after 3 hours no waves means safe....
Posted by: taralyn | Mar 29, 2005 1:23:23 AM
wow, et, gee... thanks... i didn't think i could feel any more weirded out, but i guess i can.... *shivers*
Posted by: faith-t | Mar 29, 2005 1:30:41 AM
taralyn, what or who gave you that 3hr rule?
Posted by: anonynonymousy | Mar 29, 2005 1:34:44 AM
a friend's sister whom is based in kl felt a pretty bad shake there too. apparently, its more on the west side but how come i don't feel it?!?! maybe my building structure more rooted to the ground. everytime got earthquake here no shake but when it comes to lights blackout, here sure kena. =P
Posted by: LiNdA | Mar 29, 2005 2:55:15 AM
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake had the "potential to generate a widely destructive tsunami in the ocean or seas near the earthquake."
"Authorities can assume the danger has passed if no tsunami waves are observed in the region near the epicenter within three hours of the earthquake," it added.
--Off Reuters--
Posted by: Cannonball J | Mar 29, 2005 2:59:53 AM
I thought I had a dizzy spell from being stressed out. Then I realised that my chair must be stressed too. It was shhshhshhaking.
Pretty spooked.
Posted by: sobiteme | Mar 29, 2005 3:01:56 AM
The magnitude has been revised upwards to 8.7:
Magnitude 8.7 - NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2005 March 28 16:09:36 UTC
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usweax/
Posted by: outdated | Mar 29, 2005 3:38:37 AM
Ohh... just woke up, slept at 9pm.. din't feel anything leh...was so tired.. doubt i will feel anything anyway..woodlands a-okay...
Posted by: Carol | Mar 29, 2005 3:55:58 AM
I'm in West Coast, my boyfriend's in Bedok, we didn't feel anything either. I just hope the earthquake isn't as destructive as the Boxing Day one.
Posted by: Sheena | Mar 29, 2005 4:10:45 AM
The last one happened right after X'mas and this one happened right after Easter -- in World's most populous Muslim nation.
I wonder how long before the Christian conservatives pounce on this as evidence that the almighty is punishing Islamic infidels for believing in the wrong prophet.
Posted by: crusade | Mar 29, 2005 4:33:25 AM
An 8.2 quake isn't nearly as large as a 9.0 one, despite what the MSNBC headline says. It's about 6 times smaller.
Posted by: Daryl | Mar 29, 2005 8:59:01 AM
Heiyo!
Oh, actually, I felt the tremour, but didn't realise that it was from an earthquake.
You see, I heard dogs barking and howling and crying and whatnot yesterday night at ard 12:30am. Having watched The Eye 10 and recalling all the symptoms of a ghost galore, I freaked out and switched off the TV and ran back to my room...
Then, when I was just nicely settled in, I felt the tremours... and the next thing that came to my mind... "oh no! the 'things' are here! argh!!!!"
Yeah.. then I realised this morning that it was from an earthquake... (=.=)|||
Posted by: angie | Mar 29, 2005 9:19:16 AM
Actually, a lot of islamic fanatics also claimed that the boxing day tsunami was "their god punishing the infidels" (ie bali etc).
I'm actually curious as to how they will spin this to their favor, since the deaths seem to be limited to Sumatra island in Indonesia at this point in time.
Posted by: qwerty | Mar 29, 2005 9:22:41 AM
We live on the 22nd floor near Bedok. At about 1215, I woke up because my bed was shaking! Even the door was swaying away. I felt like Linda Blair in Exorcist! I sms-ed my hubby (who was sleeping next door) to keep me company because I was too scared to leave the bed.
Posted by: maunderlin | Mar 29, 2005 10:14:14 AM
i saw a SMS when i woke up and turn on my phone tis morning. it is from my bro who is sleeping just next to my room. it read: "bro! the whole fucking room is shaking! is tis an earthquake or someting? run or stay?"
Posted by: jasontty | Mar 29, 2005 11:15:05 AM
holy crap 2000+ dead. http://www.todayonline.com/articles/42417.asp
Posted by: axe | Mar 29, 2005 11:25:51 AM
Now you guys know what an earthquake feels like...;)
Must come to Taiwan sometime for the real thing
Posted by: ahmad | Mar 29, 2005 11:45:12 AM
Found at Jeff Jarvis' blog
http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_03_28.html#009362
Posted by: Lancerlord | Mar 29, 2005 12:31:58 PM
i felt the tremors too. freakin' strong. must be mother nature's way of flushing out terrorists.
Posted by: yi fan | Mar 29, 2005 12:32:52 PM
Anyway i guess we must be grateful nothing happened to us Singaporeans right? We are still safe and sound and our island is still in one piece. =D cheers
Posted by: miss krist | Mar 29, 2005 2:17:25 PM
hmm... and they say that the earthquake cause another tsunami. might be the day after pentacoast...
Posted by: RaR | Mar 29, 2005 9:56:04 PM
correction. the earthquake might.... gee... my engreese going to the birds man...
Posted by: RaR | Mar 29, 2005 9:58:34 PM
