About midnight last night I was working on my laptop when I felt the whole house shaking, our cement house. I yelled for Denise to wake up and stand under a doorway, although in retrospect all of our doorways have glass overhead. It lasted for about a minute, pretty minor shaking, similar to the tremors we’ve felt back in Seattle. Apparently the epicenter of the earthquake was in Jakarta, about 7.5 magnitude, which makes it a pretty major earthquake. Fairly harmless here in Bandung, but I kept thinking about the predictions of a Bandung earthquake that I’ve heard lately. Thankfully it was no big deal.
Here’s a link to a news story about the earthquake.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Andy // Aug 9, 2007 at 3:17 am
Oops. That might have been me, Billy. I ate something last night that gave terrible gas…
2 DLT // Aug 10, 2007 at 2:14 pm
As long as no one was hurt, it seems fitting that you should feel the shaking in that country of earthquakes. However, I bet it really scared some people, which is not good.
3 Billy // Aug 12, 2007 at 6:26 am
Yeah, I think it did scare a lot of people. Our neighborhood is generally very quiet at midnight. But after the shaking, there was an audible hubbub as people came out of their houses and started talking.
4 DLT // Sep 13, 2007 at 9:03 am
So glad that you weren’t affected by the September 12th earthquake either. It’s hard for us in the west to realize what a very big country Indonesia is. God help the families of those dozen people who died in Sumatra.
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