I've always been bragging to everyone about how safe Singapore is. We have never experience any mother nature's fury like a hurricane, typhoon, tornado, hail, tsunami, volcanic eruption or even an earthquake. Boy,I was wrong !
After the earthquake measuring 8.4 magnitute that happen in Sumatra/Java region that is more than 100 kilometers away, Singapore felt the tremors. Naturally I was worried abt my friends and family in Singapore. We know what Mother Nature can do and it's power, afterall we did witness the calamitous event and the deadly damage it caused during the 2005 tsunami. And Singapore is just a small island.
I knew about the first tremor when I spoke to my mom on Wedesday night (Singapore's time around 10pm). She told me when she was reading the papers in the living room, our maid told her abt the utensils in the kitchen moving and shaking in the kitchen. Initially my mom thought it's the wind and before she knew it, she felt movement and giddy. 20mins later from the news broadcast, she learned that an earthquake occured in Indonesia.
Then at 9am on Thursday morning (Singapore time), my BFF-Cecilia IM me via MSN and shouted abt the second earthquake that happened again on Thursday morning around 7am. Immediately I rang my mom. She and our maid felt the shake and the photo frames that was hanging on the wall swinging and swaying which was more intense than last night. As for the triplets, they were busy in a corner fighting among each other to hop onto their tricycle.
Thank God that the tremors lasted breifly a minute or two. The good news is that no one is hurt and no damaged is caused, not even a crack line on the wall. But my mom felt it's indeed an experience as she had never felt anything like that before ! However, there are some who did not felt the tremors like both my BFF Tricia & Cecilia. As for me, I am just glad that everyone in Singapore is safe and sound and that's all that matters.
After the earthquake measuring 8.4 magnitute that happen in Sumatra/Java region that is more than 100 kilometers away, Singapore felt the tremors. Naturally I was worried abt my friends and family in Singapore. We know what Mother Nature can do and it's power, afterall we did witness the calamitous event and the deadly damage it caused during the 2005 tsunami. And Singapore is just a small island.
I knew about the first tremor when I spoke to my mom on Wedesday night (Singapore's time around 10pm). She told me when she was reading the papers in the living room, our maid told her abt the utensils in the kitchen moving and shaking in the kitchen. Initially my mom thought it's the wind and before she knew it, she felt movement and giddy. 20mins later from the news broadcast, she learned that an earthquake occured in Indonesia.
Then at 9am on Thursday morning (Singapore time), my BFF-Cecilia IM me via MSN and shouted abt the second earthquake that happened again on Thursday morning around 7am. Immediately I rang my mom. She and our maid felt the shake and the photo frames that was hanging on the wall swinging and swaying which was more intense than last night. As for the triplets, they were busy in a corner fighting among each other to hop onto their tricycle.
Thank God that the tremors lasted breifly a minute or two. The good news is that no one is hurt and no damaged is caused, not even a crack line on the wall. But my mom felt it's indeed an experience as she had never felt anything like that before ! However, there are some who did not felt the tremors like both my BFF Tricia & Cecilia. As for me, I am just glad that everyone in Singapore is safe and sound and that's all that matters.
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