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NEA: Tremors Felt in Parts of S’pore Were Due to 6.2-Magnitude Earthquake in Northern Sumatra

2022-02-25 , 2:44 pm

According to the Nation Environmental Agency (NEA), if you felt some tremors or what you assumed to be an abrupt dizzy spell around 9:40am this morning (25 Feb), it’s because they were caused by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that took place in Northern Sumatra at the same time.

Reports of the Trembling Feeling

At around 9:40am, some people reported feeling the tremors from several locations across the city-state.

It’s kind of amusing to imagine the tiny island of Singapore shaking like a boat on shifting waters, but that’s really what it was like in Ang Mo Kio, Bugis, Choa Chu Kang, Kallang, Queensway, River Valley, Punggol and Simei.

(P.S I was in one of those areas and I didn’t feel anything though!)

According to a Channel News Asia (CNA) reader, who prefers to be known as Alvin, he had been situated in the Marina Bay Financial Centre when the tremors started.

He recounted thinking that he was going through a bout of vertigo, but when he exchanged a look with a nearby female colleague, who had also stopped typing, she confirmed that she felt the building shaking too.

Alvin elaborated by saying that the building management received a few calls from the other tenants reporting the same sensations.

Likewise, for Nurul Hadaa Mohamed Daud, who had been in the Parkway Parade office building, she thought she was merely having a dizzy spell when her classroom started swaying.

However, the tremors immediately stopped after three to four seconds.

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A 6.2-Magnitude Earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia

The US Geological Survey (USGS) later reported that an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 had struck Sumatra, Indonesia, at around 9:39am Singapore Time.

Honestly, it’s almost shocking how fast ground-to-water-to-land vibration moves, for Singapore to feel even a bit of the aftershocks despite being approximately 482 kilometres away from the epicentre of the earthquake.

Freakin’ physics.

The earthquake, which was 10 kilometres deep on land, was felt in Malaysia as well.

Nearby cities of Padang in the West Sumatra province and Pekanbaru in the Riau Province vocalised that they had felt the tremors.

By virtue of the fact that the natural disaster just occurred, Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency has yet to make any media releases concerning the damage report.

Since Indonesia sits along the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a highly active zone where the Earth’s tectonic plates frequently shift and collide seismically, the country frequently has earthquakes and has a lot of volcanoes.

Just last month, there was a 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struck near Java Island, causing some residents from the capital of Jakarta to flee in panic.

Then in December last year , a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in the Flores Sea, causing a tsunami warning to sound.

Fortunately, that tidal wave coming upon shore only caused minor damage.

Sometimes, living in a small country surrounded by many larger countries has its perks, even if we’re looked down and barely seen on the world map as a little red dot.

NEA: Tremors Felt in Parts of S’pore Were Due to 6.2-Magnitude Earthquake in Northern Sumatra

Reports of the Trembling Feeling

A 6.2-Magnitude Earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia

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