Earthquake Magnitude 6.6 - Southern Sumatra, Indonesia

[Miracle]

http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007zpah.php

As usual, I was one of the first people in SG to feel it coz I am staying on the 15th floor in Punggol. The aftermath was great and the duration was quite long as well.

The CBD, East and West of Singapore reported that tremors were felt. CNA reported that even JB felt it.

My mom's reaction was to get out of the house and so were those interviewed via telephone on CNA. Most of these people must be really uneducated about earthquakes coz what people should do is take cover. For people like me, I advised my mom if we were to avoid it, we should be hiding in the bomb shelter in our house instead coz if the building were to collapse, we won't be trapped. For those in the office, hide under the table or something sturdy to protect your heads instead of running off the building.

Seriously, people need to be educated more adequately.

[Leslie]

Commonly-received wisdom has it that one should take cover while the earthquake is in progress - however, once the shaking stops, it should be safe to evacuate, and safer to get into the open away from buildings. Either that or you could trust your bomb shelter if you have one and it hasn't been coverted into Mr. Toy Storeroom.

So, I think it really depends on at which stage of the quake people began to evacuate. I'd definitely bugger off out of a building once the swaying stops and appears unlikely to start up again (say after a 5 minute no-shake period).

[darkmaul]

heard diff part of singapore can feel the shack man!! :o

[mohn]

People from town all the way to Toa Payoh definitely felt it. Heard in Singapore it was about 2.0

I definitely felt nothing though some of them in other parts of the building did.

[mohn]

now! happening again

[Miracle]

Yupz... Felt it too. But this time was less than 10 seconds.

Which area are you guys in?

[mohn]

Toa Payoh in the north

[yunrui]

if u noe a lil bout the architectures in sg, u'd know that the buildings wont collapose so easily like 911 due to structures wadsoeva.
a mere shake lidat wont cos any of us to lose a home, yet.

[Miracle]

if u noe a lil bout the architectures in sg, u'd know that the buildings wont collapose so easily like 911 due to structures wadsoeva.
a mere shake lidat wont cos any of us to lose a home, yet.

But the new plaster type HDB is unlike the old brick and steel. Every time got shake like this, cracks appear on the wall. Even the mild sinking of the land here in Punggol also will cause such problems... Guess it's HDB's method in maximising profits...

[jdelpiero]

Strange.. didn't feel nothing here.

[Leslie]

I think that's because Aboriginal mud huts sway in time with the earth.

[cyc]

the thing abt feeling the earthquate in S'pore is such that some will feel it, some won't, even if they in the same building... strange, isn't it? my wife juz told me her dept felt it, some other dept didn't, while one dept took the initiaite to evacuate 'emselves... cool man, don't need to work liao :D

[Miracle]

the thing abt feeling the earthquate in S'pore is such that some will feel it, some won't, even if they in the same building... strange, isn't it? my wife juz told me her dept felt it, some other dept didn't, while one dept took the initiaite to evacuate 'emselves... cool man, don't need to work liao :D

On the same level? Usually people on the higher levels will feel the most. And places like Marine Parade etc which were once reclaimed lands will also tremble the most.

My sister took geography last time and she said some parts of SG have extremely hard lands and those are the least affected areas. They sure are missing out the "fun". :)

[Miracle]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/262263/1/.html

In the news.

[cyc]

On the same level?

dunno leh, juz know it's a 5 storey building

[Anomaly]

Felt a little vibration twice. Feels somewhat like my stomach when its hungry.:laugh:

[des_yeo03]

Happen twice in the afternoon in AMK area, all the aunties busy packing their belongings and running out of the building...For safety purposes, i m also ask to leave the building together with the rest of my colleugues by my management....-_-

[Miracle]

I heard from my dad people in town knock off at about 4+ today due to the quake sia...

[Koo]

I sadly cannot feel the quake at my place dun to the great amount of granite rock at my area to buffer the shocks.:|

[Miracle]

Wow... Heard from the news it's 6.6 not 6.3. Time to change the title.

[cutieboy86]

i oso nv feel any tremors in tampines

[Miracle]

Just saw from the news, those people evacuate and stand under the buildings. What's the point sia. :laugh:

Should like go to an open field mah.

[cutieboy86]

singaporeans not really educated in what to do when things like this happen

[rookiyong]

I felt it twice in my office, and we are not even in a tall building.

It was reported that a company let its staff leave for home at 2pm. Actually I don't see much point about granting people to leaving early, except that management don't have to be responsible should something happen.

[Jankdev]

Somehow i'm numb to these tremors, My colleague who felt it feel so sick that she take half day off to recover.

Really feel for the victims, after shaken by the quake this afternoon,the rescue work might be hinder follow by the heavy downpour in the evening.

God help them.

[KiraDude]

i din feel it this mornin until i rcvd calls fm fellow colleagues in millienia tower, informin of e tremor.

my office was ok but my boss asked all staff 2 evacuate e buildin n go for early lunch

after an hr or so . . . she declared half day off. :D

[Hades]

I feels nothing in my coy too. Looks like I've missed out the shaking experience :( My colleague's husband who was working at the Suntec area, called her up for reporting that he feels the earthquake in his office at lvl 45.Somemore the glasses break also inside his coy :o

[Ebichu]

Didn't feel any tremors but my hamster's instincts did indicate an earthquake somewhere to the west.

[bingren]

Did anyone duck under the tables or under door frames when they felt the tremors?

[Urahara_Store]

Sigh my whole office was like everyone just jam into anxious state asking all around did you feel it. I am the only one who feels nothing sigh......think my senses buangz liao. Worse still, most of them say the shake was really obvious :(
Hope this quake wont clock up to too many damages or deaths.

[Leslie]

See excerpts of CNA report below ... dunno wad kind of wussmaster society we live in. Behave like frikkin preschoolers lor.

"Everyone was panicking. One of my colleagues was crying because she had never felt such an effect before. We were all rushing out of the building."

Another office worker told Channel NewsAsia he saw people screaming as they went out.

[mohn]

Wish we also had a half day off or longer lunch hour here but my office will be one of the last places to be evacuated .... haiz...

[Anomaly]

I think just an excuse to go back early lah.:laugh:

[Miracle]

I think just an excuse to go back early lah.:laugh:

The bosses themselves are scared of death lar. :laugh:

[quanyew]

Didn't feel a thing at my workplace at Jurong East.

All my gashapon figures on top of my monitor are still standing still :laugh:

So are my gashapon figures inside display cabinate at home :D

[Koo]

I wonder if Singapore will be still sending aid packages to help the afffected area of this quake, due to the recent bans they imposed. I often feel we at the same time have hidden agendas in helping them in the past, not good hearted. :|

[Miracle]

Not only bans, they held SG ships in custody too!!

[cyc]

I wonder if Singapore will be still sending aid packages to help the afffected area of this quake, due to the recent bans they imposed. I often feel we at the same time have hidden agendas in helping them in the past, not good hearted. :|

I trust S'pore to be stupid enuff to send 'em aids... it's always like dat one, we're like the little kid in the neighbourhood always looking for pple to play with us... I guess S'pore is too small and need to suck up to the big boys all the time... the other time they called us little red dot, we also help 'em... this time would be no different

[Leslie]

It's called taking the moral high ground la ... George Yeo oredi say liao that we help cos it is the rite ting to do.

And of course, in future, nobody can say that we all nebber offer to help - even if we not sincere, they oso wun noe for sure mah.

[Koo]

Not only bans, they held SG ships in custody too!!

I think you mean are those barges carrying garanite to Singapore. They are summugglers as some papers said, dun think the barges are registered to SG. Dun have garanite, SG can dig some that my area. (lots of garanite rocks)

[rookiyong]

See excerpts of CNA report below ... dunno wad kind of wussmaster society we live in. Behave like frikkin preschoolers lor.

I read the reports on Yahoo also. Although it is possible, but it sort of amused me that somebody is actually crying because of the shake. I guess Singapore have always been too safe that people can't handle sudden events.

[Hades]

I read the reports on Yahoo also. Although it is possible, but it sort of amused me that somebody is actually crying because of the shake. I guess Singapore have always been too safe that people can't handle sudden events.
Shamed to those who crying. Imagine that they are not the 1 who suffered in Sumatra, cry for what??? WTH!!! :duh:

[cyc]

these earthquate and the recent plane crashes... I hate to think of 'em as bad karma, but look at the things the Indonesian govt are doing... juz like the Thais, sometimes pple doing things thinking that they can get away with everything... I don't want to sell u sand, wht can u do to me? I take over ur TV station, wht can u do to me? yes, we can't do anything to 'em (that's for sure), but someone above will take care of things for us :)

[cutieboy86]

since the start of the year, things have not been goin smoothly for indon

[jdelpiero]

..... really?