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I knew it. No one would believed me when I said I felt an earthquake at around 7:30pm the other night. I didn’t blog about it because I thought it wasn’t real until I read it in the news today.
On the news, it says that a tremor was felt across the city of Hong Kong measuring around 3.5 on Richter scale. If you think that’s weak, the Observatory was flooded with phonecalls about it. I was at work in the basement of the building that night where I felt the millisecond shake. I could sensitively identified it as earthquake, I guess the effect on the taller buildings were very low, so no one noticed it in some point. I didn’t panic or whatever so I ignored it. Besides, I had not seen any sign of people running outside the building whether they felt it out of panic or excitement but I really heard a bang and felt one quick shock.
I didn’t know it would happen here. Earthquakes are one of the disasters that I fear in my entire life. Back in my childhood, I often witnessed big earthquakes in The Philippines. I remembered we would hide under the table as we watch our house shakes, glasses falling, chairs were moving while holding on our dear life for about two minutes. It was one of those times that I thought we were all going to die. Think of the movie The Day After Tomorrow? This is like the Super Bowl of all atmospheric states. It shook my wild imagination in disbelief which I hope nothing like these could ever happen. “Is this how the world is going to end?”
Good news is, there were no reports of casualties or injuries after the tremor. But there was a brief loss of power at some business district in Central. However the quake was the first since 2004. I never seriously watch the news, so I didn’t realised that earthquakes really happens here. The Hong Kong Observatory said that small scale of tremors could usually be felt in Hong Kong once or twice a year. Thanks God, we are all safe.
Well things around here still looking really bright and charming. I starting to feel the cool Autumn weather. And if we say Autumn, we think about lights, lanterns, nice clothes, the time when people will eat moon cakes-pastries with family members under moonlight. From the 30th September to 15th October, Hong Kong will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. Autumn is my personal favourite time of the year when the air is fresh and drier.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn festival, the moon is fullest and most brilliant and bright because a full moon was a symbol of reunion. It is also known as a harvest festival because all fruits, vegetable and grain had been harvested by that time. Taro is a food that cannot be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival because it was first discovered under the moonlight. Traditionally thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid. This was done because it symbolized the thirteen moons of a full, complete year.
Update on Earthquake: I was trying to look for the news online since this morning and the South China Morning Post has not posted it on the internet but I have found it here. Or visit Earthquake Watch monitoring the daily earthquake activity with a list of all earthquakes around the globe with a magnitude greater than 2.5.
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K lives in Hong Kong, who loves music, homes & architectures, movie trailers and all things . My life in this city project a lot of things - it’s all about the taxis, the billboards, the sidewalks, the cinemas, the zebra lines, the lights, the cars, the sounds, the people, the skyscrapers and the shopping malls.
We’ll just have to keep cool.
I’m sensitive to small tremors. I’ve been through a couple of good-sized ones in the Philippines. They’re no fun.
Have a good weekend!
Who wouldn’t want to panic in this city?
Sounds quite scary, being in the basement. I suppose though it’s the safest place, am I wrong in that?
Take care, K!
This sounds like that little tremble (my first) that I felt a few weeks ago…scary ain’t it?
happy weekend otherwise K!
But I’m looking forward for the Moon Festival, the weather seems nice this time. A lot of times, I don’t anymore use my AC. I should be wearing the “I heart Hong Kong” shirt for this. Hahaha.
Thanks Charles, am Ohhhh-K.
listening now to your MYMP.
Glad you enjoy the music. Click ka lang ng click, Ate.
I think HOTELS these days does Fire Drill every once in a while. It’s an offense around here if fire exits are blocked. Safe naman siguro diyan. Just my little advisory, hahahaha Ms Gracie.
within the nearby countries around the philippines there had been earthquakes happening. i wonder if it’s a matter of time before we get jolted by a strong one.
oh dear…
Wag naman sanan dito.
others than that, many people and too crowded everywhere. it is getting hotter and hotter like in sauna.
never face any big typhoons. we will see in future