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Doubt this will ever happen in any other country. Such great spirit in the face of adversity. http://www.facebook.com/notes/jun-shiomits...150121176733830

Hope for the best.... SINGAPORE: A group of students from Tanjong Katong Primary School were on an excursion at Mount Kinabalu when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday (Jun 5), Channel NewsAsia understands. At least eight of them are uncontactable, along with two teachers, Mr James Ho, a parent of one of the students, said. This was later confirmed by the Education Ministry. The 12-year-old students and their teachers were understood to have departed Mount Kinabalu on Wednesday for a leadership programme and were expected to return on Monday afternoon. Anxious parents were seen rushing into the school for a meeting with teachers on Friday afternoon. One woman said her daughter was injured and is "on the way to hospital". Mr Ho told Channel NewsAsia that his 12-year-old daughter Rachel is one of eight students stranded at the via ferrata route on Mount Kinabalu. He said he has received no news about their well-being. "This happened in the morning and it's been more than 12 hours. And the frustrating thing is we are not getting any updates on the rescue operations," he said. Another 19 students from the school have returned to safety, Mr Ho added, and five of them and one teacher suffered minor injuries. Mr Sadri Farick, whose child had leg injuries after the quake, also expressed frustration at the lack of information. "I sympathise with my friends whose children are missing. We got news from one of the boys that there are boulders dropping in front of them, and they have been cut off, so we are expecting the worst but still have hope." MOE WORKING TO CONTACT MISSING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS In a statement, MOE confirmed that 10 people from Tanjong Katong Primary have yet to be accounted for. "Three schools, Fuchun Secondary School, Greenridge Secondary School and Tanjong Katong Primary School, are in Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia on overseas learning journey. All students and teachers from Fuchun and Greenridge have been accounted for and arrangements have been made for them to return to Singapore. Of the 29 students and eight teachers from Tanjong Katong Primary School, 21 students and six teachers have been accounted for. MFA and ISOS are rendering assistance for their safe return to Singapore. We are continuing efforts to contact the remaining eight students and two teachers. Parents have been informed and kept updated on the situation." COLD NIGHT FOR THOSE STRANDED: PARKS DIRECTOR Earlier, Sabah Parks director Jamili Nais told Channel NewsAsia over the phone that 38 Singaporeans had begun climbing Mount Kinabalu at about 2am to 3am on Friday morning before the earthquake hit. "Up there, it is getting colder. We are in touch with the staff and in touch with some of the stranded climbers. It's getting cold but the weather is slightly better now. Three helicopters are on the way to drop food and warm clothing," Dr Jamili said. "But Im really fearful because before long, its going to be very cold and tonight therell be hypothermia, so we are working very hard at least to drop the food and warm clothing as well as camping equipment," he added. Paramedics, doctors and ambulances are waiting at base for those rescued, he said. In a statement, Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said majority of the more than 100 Singaporeans in Sabah at the time of the quake are safe, and that it is still working to reach those who are uncontactable. It has also despatched a Crisis Response Team to Sabah to render consular assistance. - CNA/ly

First, a 6.0 quake hit California Shortly after, another 7.0 one hits Peru Hopefully this isn't the signal that the BIG one is coming.. or these 2 quakes willl help ease the stress that is building up for the BIG one.

http://www.google.com.sg/search?site=&...-hp.-xkZJje-Egc 7.0 mag. As of now more then 132 had passed away 5500 injured and still counting

Amyone felt movement now??? Or i too stress brain !@#$%^

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sin...1116863/1/.html SG garmen donate how much??? $500k??? Give themselves how much pay raise????

Over 25 killed in Myanmar quake: officials. At least 25 people were killed and dozens of buildings destroyed when a strong earthquake struck Myanmar near the Thai border, officials from both countries said Friday. Tremors were felt as far away as Bangkok, almost 800 kilometres (500 miles) from the epicentre, Hanoi and parts of China during the earthquake on Thursday, which the US Geological Survey (USGS) measured at magnitude 6.8. A Myanmar official warned that there could be "many more casualties" in the town of Tarlay, close to the epicentre, as he confirmed 10 men, a boy and 13 women had been killed when the quake struck. "Five monasteries and 35 buildings collapsed in the town. Those people were killed when the buildings collapsed," said the official, who declined to be named. Twenty people were injured in Tarlay in the district of Tachileik, and the official said the main road into the area was closed after being damaged in the quake. Just across the border from Tachileik, Thai authorities said a 52-year-old woman was killed in Mae Sai district after a wall of her house collapsed. Terrified residents across the region fled their homes, tall buildings swayed and hospitals and schools were evacuated during the tremors. The quake struck 90 kilometres (60 miles) north of Chiang Rai and 235 kilometres (150 miles) north-northeast of Chiang Mai, Thailand's second city and a popular tourist destination. Tall buildings shuddered in Bangkok during the tremor. Its epicentre was close to the borders with Thailand and Laos and was just 10 kilometres (six miles) deep. Thailand's meteorological department on Friday said it had registered six large aftershocks following the initial quake. Chiang Rai governor Somchai Hatayatanti told AFP late Thursday that efforts were made to evacuate people from tall buildings and he had ordered all patients from Mae Sai District Hospital to be taken to Chiang Rai. The shaking was felt throughout China's southwest province of Yunnan, according to state-run China National Radio, but no casualties or structural collapses had been reported as of Friday morning. However, the earthquake reportedly caused cracks in some homes and schools in and around the rugged Xishuangbanna region which borders Myanmar, and fear of aftershocks forced many people in the area to spend the night outdoors. Some residents of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi fled their homes in panic when the quake shook the city. Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh, 36, who lives on the 10th floor of a highrise, said her husband noticed their pet fish shaking in their tank. "We all rushed to the street. All the other people in the apartments also rushed out," she said. Hanoi felt the tremor at about magnitude 5.0, according to Dinh Quoc Van, deputy head of the earthquake monitoring department. The quake comes two weeks after Japan was hit by a monster earthquake, which unleashed a devastating tsunami that left around 27,000 people dead or missing and triggered a crisis at its Fukushima nuclear plant. No tsunami warning was issued after the Myanmar quake as US seismologists said it was too far inland to generate a devastating wave in the Indian Ocean. The USGS initially recorded the quake as magnitude 7.0, but later revised it down to 6.8. ... It seem that not only countries in the ''ring of fire'' are getting earthquake now....Scary man...any chance one day Singapore will get hit too? if so...we will sure die c--k standing with 4 sides sea and so many highrise building now...even HDB flat is 50 floors now.....

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03...er-tsunami.html

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/...310-267348.html ASIAONE NEWS ASIA Christchurch sex trade booming after quake AFP Thu, Mar 10, 2011 WELLINGTON - CHRISTHCHURCH sex workers were enjoying a boom in trade after last month's earthquake as stressed emergency workers turned to the world's oldest profession, a report said on Thursday. Prostitutes in the New Zealand city said an influx of foreigners helping relief efforts after the devastating 6.3-magnitude quake had left them run off their feet, the Christchurch Press reported. It said one sex worker, 'Candice', reported earning up to NZ$1,400 (S$1,306) a night soliciting just outside the city's cordoned-off downtown area. 'In three years, I've never made this much before,' she told the newspaper. 'The foreign ones are the best, they pay the most. 'They are saying they are stressed out and they need to get some stress relief.' Another sex worker, Mary, who lost her house in the February 22 tremor, also said business was brisk. She had been seeing 'all sorts of people', not just regular clients: 'It's their way of dealing with it. If they can get some relief, I think there's nothing wrong with that.' Candice said her clients included search and rescue staff, builders and foreign police officers. 'There's just lots of men here, lots of men without their wives and they're going to be a bit naughty,' she said.

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An earthquke just hit Central California,less than 3 days after a big one half the world away in Sumatra.Seems like the Tectonic and Teutonic earth plates are playing havoc.It this a pre-cursor to bigger things?

I can feel its super bad this time From Indo again?

As reported in CNA : Earthquake jolts southern Japan Posted: 08 July 2008 1607 hrs TOKYO - A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook southern Japan on Tuesday, the country's meteorological agency said, but there was no risk of a tsunami and no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The tremor, which struck at 4:42 pm (0742 GMT), jolted areas around Japan's southernmost island of Okinawa, the agency said. The epicentre was located in the waters off Okinawa's main island, at a depth of 50 kilometres (30 miles). Japan experiences 20 percent of the world's major earthquakes. A powerful quake in the northern prefecture of Miyagi on June 13 killed 12 people. So........ its getting stronger and stronger quakes in Japan and could reach to 9.0 magnitude in July as predicted.....

Saw it from the 7pm new at CNA which reported that a 5.1 magnitude quake hit Japan this afternoon....... As predicted by the person who says that Japan will be hit by quake in July and the magnitude of 9.0 plus Tsuinami...... So his prediction is correct after all but will there me more to come.......

BEIJING (AFP) - - Staff at a bank in China's quake zone used relief funds to buy themselves US brand runners, the country's audit office said Friday after probing for instances of aid money going astray. A branch of ICBC, the biggest bank in China, in quake-hit Mianyang city bought 56 pairs of Nike runners for its workers, the audit office said in a statement posted on its website. The branch used 28,500 yuan (4,100 dollars) to buy the shoes at the end of May, and faked the receipts to say it had bought raincoats, rubber boots and umbrellas, the report said. "After the audit investigation revealed this problem, the bank returned the 'special earthquake funds' that were inappropriately used," the report said. Another investigation by the audit office revealed that in some areas, text messages about the quake were sent en masse, and were suspected of cheating mobile phone users into donating money into bank accounts, the report said. "According to our investigation, there are some people who already put earthquake donations into the fundraising accounts," the report said. Those accounts had been frozen, according to the audit office, which did not reveal how much money was involved. Misappropriation of funds allocated to help in the wake of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake -- which has killed nearly 70,000 and left another 17,500 missing -- is of huge concern in a country where graft is endemic. Corruption is rampant both in government ranks and throughout society, as the country ploughs through its development boom without a free press or an independent judiciary. President Hu Jintao has repeatedly warned that corruption is one of the biggest threats to the legitimacy of the ruling Communist Party. More than six billion dollars in aid from home and abroad has been donated for quake relief and the government has insisted it is doing all it can to ensure the money is spent in the correct manner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New slogan for runner "U can't resist owning it". Back to topics, kudos for reporting and ensuring corruptions are minimised.

This pic will haunt you for the rest of your days........... A HEARTBROKEN husband takes his wife

my office shaking again

sxxt! take cover

will prices of these cars from japan shoot up??? ST 19/7 TOKYO - HONDA Motor Co joined other Japanese automakers in cutting production after an earthquake caused a shortage of parts and forced car assembly lines around the country to grind to a halt. Honda will suspend part of its production on Friday and Saturday because of difficulties buying piston rings from Riken Corp, which was badly affected by Monday's quake northwest of Tokyo. Some 2,000 vehicles would have been produced by the affected assembly lines on Friday alone, said a spokesman. Toyota, Japan's top-selling automaker, said on late Wednesday it would suspend production at all of its domestic plants from Thursday evening until Saturday because of problems buying parts from Riken Corp. The suspension was unavoidable given the lack of parts, said Toyota president Katsuaki Watanabe. 'I hope rather strongly that they will recover as soon as possible,' he said in an interview with national broadcaster NHK. Nissan Motor Co has said it will suspend part of its production from Friday at two of its three plants in Japan until next Monday, while Suzuki Motors and Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru vehicles, are also reducing output. The problems have highlighted the industry's heavy dependence on one supplier and the fragility of the 'just-in-time' inventory system, where parts arrive at a plant just when they are needed so as to keep costs down. -- AFP