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.