296 reported dead in 8.7 quake near Indonesia
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – A major earthquake struck late Monday off the west coast of Indonesia, and a local government official said 296 people were killed in collapsed buildings. Thousands panicked in countries across the Indian Ocean as tsunami warnings were posted.
(Earthquake in Indonesia.)
The quake collapsed about 70 percent of houses and buildings in the town of Gunungsitoli, said police Sgt. Zulkifli Sirait.
The only tsunami reported within four hours was a tiny one – less than 4 inches – at the Cocos Islands, 1,400 miles west of Australia, meteorologists in Sydney said.
The Dec. 26 quake triggered a huge tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean at the speed of a passenger jet. More than 1.5 million people were left homeless in 11 countries.
Source: MSNBC
This occured when a day after I say that Singapore has no earthquake, the earth seems to be agreeing and adding that there could be tremors instead. Check out Mr. Brown’s for more information. Singapore is affected in areas like Punggol and Seng Kang. I don’t think anyone is hurt. I am not affected and is continuing debugging a Visual Basic .NET program and have absolutely no idea such an event occured.
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I saw the news coverage on BBC World (channel 13, cable) just about after midnight. I only managed to watch it for about 15 minutes. I was just too darn tired.
by Event Horizon (Mar 29, 2005 at 12 PM)Event Horizon: I didn’t know even. I just saw it at Mr. Brown’s blog and I was still wondering what’s happening. I even thought it’s a repeated report of the previous tsunami. It’s unfortunate that Mother Nature decides to strike Indonesia twice in such a short time, I can imagine the people still trying to recover from their losses.
by Mr. Dew (Mar 29, 2005 at 1 PM)My friends felt tremors at their hostel near the Katong area…
by Serene (Mar 29, 2005 at 6 PM)Serene: I wish I felt how it’s like somehow, hahaa.. I never come across tremors before. I noticed most of the tremors occur at night. Perhaps it’s made as such by Mother Nature so that I’d be sleeping or something..
by Mr. Dew (Mar 29, 2005 at 7 PM)Hmm come to think of it, I don’t know if I actually felt the tremor. I was at the computer some time around midnight when I felt a steady shake in my body – twice. I thought it was just the nerves tweaking in my body (since I had quite a gruelling training at the gym earlier yesterday), or that I had some giddiness or something. I didn’t notice anything else that may be shaking around me. I was rather tired at that time. About 15 minutes later, I shutdown my system and went outside to watch BBC World. That was when I saw the breaking news. But it didn’t occur to me that the shakey incident in my room had anything to do with it. And no I was not anywhere near Katong.
by Event Horizon (Mar 29, 2005 at 7 PM)Event Horizon: I don’t think I’d have linked it to an earthquake too. I’m quite ignorant of these news. And if I came back from the gym, I’m probably lying in my bed and would never have a chance of feeling an earthquake.
by Mr. Dew (Mar 29, 2005 at 10 PM)i felt the earthquake slightly. the computer was swaying distinctly in front of me for quite a while, and i thought the table was unsteady. but it was rock steady, and so i thought i was dizzy.
only realised just now that it was the earthquake…
by milky (Mar 30, 2005 at 12 AM)milky: If my table were to sway around that way in the night without any reason, that’s not a good sign, hahaa
by Mr. Dew (Mar 30, 2005 at 6 AM)milky you sound like a poet
by Event Horizon (Mar 31, 2005 at 2 PM)Event Horizon: She does? 2 pairs of words rhyme in there, lol
by Mr. Dew (Mar 31, 2005 at 5 PM)I am not a religious person, but has anyone realized that the earthquake and the aftershock each took place the day after Christmas and Easter (catholic) respectively?
by nilo (Apr 2, 2005 at 12 PM)nilo, hmmmp.. I didn’t realize. But you’re right. God is in fury?
by Mr. Dew (Apr 2, 2005 at 1 PM)fresh//tremors
Usually I wake up at around 8 to 9 in the morning. Yesterday is one of the super rare occasions that I slept till 10 because of my late sleep. And because of that, I missed the tremors….
by //beconfused (Apr 10, 2005 at 7 PM)The same day 41 years earlier on Good Friday(Mar 27-28 1964) a 9.2 hit in Alaska.
by mike (May 16, 2005 at 8 PM)Last year on Dec 26 was the 9.0.in Sumatra. On Dec 26,2003 30,000 died in Iran from an earthquake. Now is that wierd or what? And 3 in a row of 8.0 or better is the first time in history……what does that mean? Is God just waking up after a long nap drinking His coffee while He prepares another one anyday now? Today is the 16 of May,2005. Could Japan be next with a 9.6?
mike: I don’t quite get what you mean here:
It can be a mere coincidence. More occurrences are required to convinced me. It would be disastrous for Japan if it would be 9.6.
by Mr. Dew (May 16, 2005 at 8 PM)