Ouuu - Shaky!
This is the first time I kind of experienced a vague tremble related to a quite strong earthquake roughly 800km away from Singapore (off Sumatra; 8.5 magnitudes on Richter scale).
There have been several trembles, but I only felt one on Wed-evening and one on Thursday morning.
Strange that the Singapore newspaper (the free paper Today for example, cf. http://www.todayonline.com/pdf_main.asp?pubdate=20070914) focuses exclusively on the effects of the shake on Singapore - even thought it is clear that Indonesia is much more affected. The main message here seems to be "everything ok, our buildings are good" (at least for once they couldn't cite the otherwise omnipresent PM Lee for this event:-).
Are the S'poreans a bit too concerned/preoccupied about themselves and how good they are?
You need to google to check that the effects have been detrimental for Indonesia (cf. e.g.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0912/breaking74.htm).
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ah ya, the Americans report also about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/world/asia/14quakecnd.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
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