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Barely a couple of hours ago, I suddenly felt nauseous. At first, I thought that it was just a reaction from the bad tummy I’ve had all afternoon. But then, I noticed a couple of my friends’ status on Facebook which made reference to feeling the earth move and I thought, Oh oh, not again.
The last time I felt like nauseous like this out of the blue was in 2003 when the tsunami happened. Even then, I wasn’t sure what happened. I was in the office with a colleague when suddenly we heard sound of crackling all around us. We thought it was ghosts, so we said, we’ll just leave only to get the SMS messages and all alerting us to the news.
My mobile phone was on silent, so I didn’t get hear The Star News Alerts come in.
“Tremors felt in the Klang Valley and Malacca when an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale occured at 10.26pm in Sumatra, 336km SW of Klang.”
Checking online, there were blogs and posts all mentioning different measures of the earthquake. The Malaysian Life quoted two different measurements, one from Jabatan Meterologi Malaysia website (5.1 on the Richter scale), and another from the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program (5.9).
So many different numbers! Maybe it’s like what Delta’s Dark Den of Destruction mentioned, that there were in fact, two earthquakes in the same area in the same hour.
Checked The Star and NST online sites, no updates as yet. Hope no one’s injured or worse, dead.
Why so many tragedies at the same time?
Tags: earthquake, Jabatan Meterologi Malaysia, tsunami, U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program
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so it is true! my bf felt it as well. i tried checking cnn and yahoo but no news yet.
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I felt it too at about 10.30pm. Remember the last time that happened? we felt it and we were on msn :p I felt that my apt was swaying :s Same thing, no news update immediately till I saw the news in newspaper the next day.
Hey Beng,
Am rather late with comments as just read your blog on the tremors….what do you know…my chair rocked gently just as I switched on my comp to check e-mails (was away for the long wk end). I had experienced a series of minor tremors,since the tsunami, but after the Wenchuan deadly quake; enough to give you the shake, I got scared and went down to the poolside along with other residents !
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..