Sumatra Earthquakes - March 6, 2007
Yesterday, another natural disaster happened again - earthquakes. The 2 quakes that rocked Sumatra, Indonesia was both felt in my office, high up in the 20th floor of Menara PanGlobal. The shake wasn't really that bad, just felt as if you were feeling dizzy seeing the desktop swaying left and right.
While I did not feel the first quake which happened in the mid-morning yesterday, the 2nd one was clearly felt at around 1.30pm Malaysian time, not long after I came back from lunch. For KL to feel the quake, we can imagine how bad it is in Sumatra. In the 8.30 night news last night, there was already 70 deaths reported. Not sure what's the latest count today.
I've never experience earthquakes before and it does seem a little scary. Let's just hope Malaysia will never experience such tragedy and pray that the quake marks the end of the string of disasters we've been experiencing of late.
Links to Yahoo! News. It reported that the quake hit up to a magnitude of 6.3 in the scales.
Labels: earthquakes, Sumatra
posted by Eng at
09:24
4 Comments:
Even Sumatra is having a major quake it is very unlikely it can cause commercial building Fail in Malaysia. Malaysia do not sit on top of earth plates. You will not get earthquake here.
on top of that, commercial building such as the one like your Menara PanGlobal must meet certain requirement in order to get its design plan approve to built it. These tall buildings have much stronger palling. They are design to resist wind. Wind blowing post more treat to Malaysia building than Earthquake. For your info KLCC bridge is use to resist the towers to sway too much because of wind blowing. It is normal for them swaying left & right because they are design that way. Swaying is part of the building defense.
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BillyTong, at 13 March, 2007 21:35
er... thanks for the information
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Eng, at 14 March, 2007 09:20
I thought I felt the 3rd quake, but not sure about that..haha... must have been terrible over there
By
Jyrenze, at 14 March, 2007 12:12
all I know was there was only 2 quakes... how did you ever felt the 3rd? maybe you were really feeling dizzy
By
Eng, at 15 March, 2007 11:54
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