" Tremors felt in many parts of Singapore
Update 2: Singapore Police Force updates here and here.
Update 1: second bunch of tremors felt at Suntec. Lasting about 15 seconds. About 2pm.
Ministry of Home Affairs recommends these safety tips.
An earthquake was detected at 11:49am, 6 Mar 2007 in CENTRAL SUMATRA, approximately 430km from Singapore. The magnitude of the earthquake is 6.6 on the Richter scale. The epicentre is located at latitude 0.4 South and longitude 100.4 East.
USGS reports it as a 6.3.
From my buddy in Suntec at around 11.57am Singapore time:
“wahrow, suntec building just swayed for about 10secs”
“10% in me scared that its circle line.. but think its more earthquake in sumatra”
Friends are reporting tremors in Sengkang too. Around 11.55am. We felt it here briefly in Katong too.
Wife just called from Beach Road and said her colleagues and many from her building (Shaw Tower) have evacuated and are waiting on the first floor. She said the tremors lasted quite long and they felt it quite a bit. Made her giddy.
Friend in Suntec is now evacuating too, because his boss says, just in case.
In other news, Channel NewsAsia’s website is the first casualty of the tremors.
I will update more when I get news.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Well, most of my colleagues just felt some light movement again at around 1:55 pm. We are on the 10th floor at the Atruim at Dholby Ghaut, the highest floor.
March 6th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
How come I didnt feel any. I was in CCK.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Strangely I felt nothing as I was in school…in Marine Parade.
Don’t know why I felt nothing at all.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
We work at Harbourfront and we could feel both. Most of us were quite relaxed about it though, in fact i think we were more excited than scared…
Wonder if my cats could feel it coming befor us…but i think they are too blur..probably too gone snoozing away~
March 7th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Earthquake in Singapore, wow…
In Indonesia, 9 people died, while in Singapore people just vomit…
and yet there was a big whoha about it…. wow…