Koala
7th February 2012, 09:16
The day after the quake that measured 6.9....It all started at 11.49am yesterday....Both my partner and I were both on computers in our office in our house.....Then the rumbling followed by the violet shaking....all the kitchen draws flew open glasses started to fall from the side board smashing on the ground.....Light fittings swinging in the air.....The walls and windows were like jelly.....It lasted for about 15 sec but it seemed like 15 min.
Its hard to explain you are just waiting for things to start collasping or the walls & floors to start cracking apart.
To look out the window and the 2m high concrete fence and the mango trees shaking......Just this power to move everything insight all around you.....Then it stops.
We were holding on to our desks and our eyes were the sizes off dinner plates.....you move around the house checking for damage.......power is gone out the phone is dead and there is no sound at all dead quite.
We sit down to take the stress level down and 20 mins later it starts all over again.....I said I hope the 1st one wasn't just a warning of the mega one that we are in now....We both took off outside of the house.....we had 9 after shocks that were 5 and above....
The worst thing about it 3 hrs after the big quake some .......s started texting that the city was about to get hit be a Tsinami......Then the txt messages swept like wild fire thru out the city and the panic gripped the community and 1000's of people started to head to the hills....The Mayor went on the airwaves at 2.00pm one hour before the txt messages started tell the public don't panick the Pilvolic (Gov't monitering center) has informed the Mayor that no Tsinami is coming after 2 hrs of the major quake...
There was no need to cause major panic in the community by these dickheads, specially for the young kids and older folks who started fleeing up to the hills which could cause accidents and creat more problems to the their stress levels and health.
Fortunately everybody here is fine.
I have been trying to add pics but they won't upload.....I have to get back to work at the building site I will try tommorow.
Koala
Its hard to explain you are just waiting for things to start collasping or the walls & floors to start cracking apart.
To look out the window and the 2m high concrete fence and the mango trees shaking......Just this power to move everything insight all around you.....Then it stops.
We were holding on to our desks and our eyes were the sizes off dinner plates.....you move around the house checking for damage.......power is gone out the phone is dead and there is no sound at all dead quite.
We sit down to take the stress level down and 20 mins later it starts all over again.....I said I hope the 1st one wasn't just a warning of the mega one that we are in now....We both took off outside of the house.....we had 9 after shocks that were 5 and above....
The worst thing about it 3 hrs after the big quake some .......s started texting that the city was about to get hit be a Tsinami......Then the txt messages swept like wild fire thru out the city and the panic gripped the community and 1000's of people started to head to the hills....The Mayor went on the airwaves at 2.00pm one hour before the txt messages started tell the public don't panick the Pilvolic (Gov't monitering center) has informed the Mayor that no Tsinami is coming after 2 hrs of the major quake...
There was no need to cause major panic in the community by these dickheads, specially for the young kids and older folks who started fleeing up to the hills which could cause accidents and creat more problems to the their stress levels and health.
Fortunately everybody here is fine.
I have been trying to add pics but they won't upload.....I have to get back to work at the building site I will try tommorow.
Koala