anyone feels shaky a few mins ago?

[Wai]

lets have a last min outing now to the sea side... east coast?

:nono: ;p

so far...let's go punggol jetty instead

 

[eikin]

to take photo, silly me.

:bsmilie: ... must be the time of the night ...

but you must see the devastation to know the horror of tidal waves, when i saw it in sri lanka it was already one month over and can still see the impact physically and mentally for the people lor, if strike again it's going to be so sad

 

[DaNi3L]

It's horrible news, in every aspect of it. Hope the information reaches those who need to hear before their lives are put in danger again. The emotional scar has yet to heal and another blow is dealt again.

 

[zhuozehai]

lets say that you are living somewhere near the quake.

Imagine this : things falling, ground shaking, trapped in the building that you are sleeping 3mins ago. fear of the tsunami sweeping throu before you can get any help.

 

[jopel]

lets have a last min outing now to the sea side... east coast?

:nono: ;p

punggol jetty better can bring along my fishing gears. might get some fish that are running for their lives from sumatra.

 

[Ian]

excuse me, tidal waves hit also not here in singapore, shout to you for what? :dunno:

According to the maps I've seen the quake's epicentre was on the southern side of Sumatra. It's all open water to Perth lol ... Singapore is on the North side of the Sumatra so no tsunami for Singapore.

This link is to a half decent map of Sumatra (online)

http://goasia.about.com/gi/dynamic/...s/middle_east_and_asia/indonesia_pol_2002.jpg

The Epicentre is between Pulau Nias island and Palau Siberut islands, near Padang.

Map of the exact epicentre:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/10/95_0.html

Ian

 

[look4mi]

working in raffles place...

evacuated my bldg for as short while

everything fine now =p

 

[CYRN]

gadrian made an uncanny observation just now.

tsunami quake = day after christmas
this quake = day after easter

hmmmm..

aiyo... if you follow the link on the first page by wai... you'll know that EVERYDAY there are several quakes all over the world. :nono:

 

[Pablo]

Can I take it that you guys in Singapore are all ok ? and are getting your surf boards out for a ride ???

 

[AgnesKjaer]

this is the first time i feel so much for such natural disaster... i was on the verge of tearing...

 

[Sjourn]

I just had a sip of guinness and felt the vibrations..I thought that was effective..... :bsmilie: :bsmilie:

Until someone sms me to ask..staying in Punggol.

 

[cast123]

Can I take it that you guys in Singapore are all ok ? and are getting your surf boards out for a ride ???

Tks for your concern, Singapore here is quite safe

 

[jimtong]

watching CNA now...

 

[CYRN]

Can I take it that you guys in Singapore are all ok ? and are getting your surf boards out for a ride ???

we are sheltered from the surfs of this quake :sweat: other than the shakes, I dun think there will be increase in swells.

 

[AgnesKjaer]

its so sad already, can pple show sympathy rather than sacarsm pls???

 

[eikin]

I just had a sip of guinness and felt the vibrations..I thought that was effective..... :bsmilie: :bsmilie:

Until someone sms me to ask..staying in Punggol.

me lah :sticktong ... wah, u still drinking ah? u stay so high up no headache meh?

 

[PhotoDog]

Can I take it that you guys in Singapore are all ok ? and are getting your surf boards out for a ride ???

Got this from http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/article.asp?pid=1199

"Singapore is located in an area sandwiched by the Java trench in the west and south, and the Philippine plate and trench in the east.
Thus Singapore is located in a seismically stable zone, free from earthquakes.
Most of the shallow and bigger earthquakes are in western Sumatra and Java because of the deep subduction zones to the west-east and south-north of the Java trench. Earthquakes that occur near Singapore are usually deep earthquakes and weak."

So I guess Singapore is safe.

 

[Pablo]

aiyo... if you follow the link on the first page by wai... you'll know that EVERYDAY there are several quakes all over the world. :nono:

Over here we don't get Tsuna....

Oh, it was just some dude driving past with a 1000 watt car stereo playing doof doof music :bsmilie:

I thought I was a gone :bsmilie:



Only meaning to put a different light on it guys.. sorry if un tastefull.

 

[Wai]

me lah :sticktong ... wah, u still drinking ah? u stay so high up no headache meh?

he cant tell if the headache was due to quake or beer

anyway...

It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage. :sweat:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/facts.html

 

[CYRN]

its so sad already, can pple show sympathy rather than sacarsm pls???

relax lah... natural disasters happens all the time...juz because it's not in the (local) news dosen't mean it dosen't happen.

Anyway, this time the authorities are responding already and evacuation warnings are issued throughout the indian ocean rim liaoz.