I would try to share what I have learnt
Mild / small earthquake hits Kolkata / West Bengal / Eastern India / ANDAMAN ISLANDS / Japan coast – TSUMANI warning has been issued
It seems a mild / small earthquake has just hit Kolkata / West Bengal / eastern India / ANDAMAN ISLANDS / Japan coast.
Time was around 0130 hours of 11th August. It was mild and lasted for few (3-5 sec) seconds.
There are no news yet on any news channel or web site. So I am still waiting for an official word from the gov.
Update :-
Initial reports suggest that the epicenter is at Andaman and the bad news is, it is a 7.7 which has hit them directly.
Update :-
There was another at the same time, located near cost of JAPAN also. CNN has just broke the story.
(CNN) — A strong earthquake struck off the south coast of Japan on Sunday night local time, “jolting Tokyo and wide areas of eastern Japan,” the country’s Kyodo news agency reported.
Update :-
Warning guys..
(CNN) — A tsunami watch has been issued after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean near India’s Adaman Islands, authorities said.
The watch covers India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Bangladesh, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
TSUNAMI warning has been issued and if any one is reading this and is in any of the effected area, then please contact local authority for appropriate action and seek advise on what to do.
Update :-
If a TSUNAMI is generated then mainland India / Bangladesh / Myanmar / Thiland / Indonesia has less than 3 hours where as folks over there in Andaman have lees than an hour before they get hit by a tidal wave !!!
“It is not known that a tsunami was generated. This watch is based only on the earthquake evaluation. Authorities in the region should take appropriate action in response to this possibility.”
The estimated tsunami travel time would be an hour or less to the coasts of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, according to a bulletin issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency.
A tsunami would reach the coastlines of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia within one to three hours.
Lets pray that this stays as a warning and never becomes reality !!! We all know what TSUMANI in India ocean can do.
Update :-
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a TSUNAMI watch for Indian ocean.
Update :-
Some good news from JAPAN, as Japan Meteorological Agency calls off the TSUNAMI warning from the cost of JAPAN.
Update :-
Good news for South East Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia) also as just like Japan Meteorological Agency, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has also called off the TSUNAMI watch, which was issued for Indian Ocean.
(CNN) — The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has canceled a tsunami watch issued for five countries following a 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean.
You may digg the story to spread the word
Related posts:
- Nikon to Come to India Officially After a long long wait, its now official. Nikon Corporation Japan announced the launch of Nikon India Private Limited. Nikon...
- Good news for online business onwers and bloggers as Paypal resume their business in India It was a disaster for online business owners and professional bloggers since RBI directions and policy forced paypal to suspend...
- Microsoft to spend USD 20 million in India on computer literacy A report at PC-World suggests that Microsoft corporation is planing to spend USD 20 million on computer literacy programs in...
- Congratulations to India – T20 World Cup Win Congratulations to India .. At last after so many defeats at Finals, the Indian Team wins the T20 World Cup…...
- GPhone / The Google Phone to be in India by September 2007 ?? One of the Business daily quite sources in side the major service providers in India like Bharti (AirTel) / Hutch...
| Print article | This entry was posted by Choto Cheeta on August 11, 2009 at 1:46 am, and is filed under My Life. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. |
Loading ...
about 1 year ago
I’m the student of class 12. I was studing .Around 1:30 am on 11 aug. 09 i and my seniors were chating, at first we realised the shaking of our bed but we ignored it but one of my senior said that earthaquake then we realised it n after 1 min. It was gone
about 1 year ago
Hey…
omg it was like effffing scary last night myGOD. so i was just wwatching CSI:NY (lol) on tv at like 1 30 am on the sofa in my living room, and our dirver, whose like my uncle, his name’s chotelal right, so he was sleeping on the floor, like watching tv as well. so for a few seconds i thought i was dizzy so i was ignoring it, but then i got pissed so i was like, chotelal ji, dude like stop moving the sofa around or something…and i turn around and hes just sititn there like with a freaked out look on his face. he was like”uh..whats happeing”///and as we were speaking we were literally swaying from side to side—and thenlike at that moment, our 3 maids, who were eatin in the kitche, they ran out and came to us and were like OMFG what the hell IS THIS….they were like”i was just sitttin and eating and i literally started swaying side to side. and as all this were happening, everything around us was moving. like the mirrors were swaying from side to side, sofas obviously, and everything. God, and all this in the matter of like 15seconds which is like NOTHING. mygod. truly an experience but i got freaked yesterday so went online and switched to news channel but nothin was on yet. good to know its bein talked abt right now
xx
about 1 year ago
truly speaking, i was awake whole of last night but i didn’t feel any quake. however, some friends from dhaka (bangladesh) did report about a tremour around the same time as you mentioned.
about 1 year ago
Hi..I am from Salt Lake, Kolkata.
I too experienced the same thing. It was around 1:30 AM last night 11/08/09.
I was chattin with a friend of mine with the help of my laptop n was in bed that time..i felt d bed shaking..firstly i thought probably due to some nervousness or smthn i felt..then again..n it was little increased..n i stay in ground floor..n felt so much..
then after that time..searched on net..didnt get anything..again in d morning i searched n got many pages..so i am writing here..
but it was scary..i must accept..
about 1 year ago
@deep
Bro where in moulali do you reside…I reside at creek row…
about 1 year ago
Hi friends, Let me share my experience with you all. At around 1:30am while I was sleeping I woke up by a strange continuous movement in my bed. I immediately understood that its an earthquake. I immediately took my 3 years young daughter on my lap and asked my wife to do the same with my 6 months little one. We literally got worried. I remembered the Latur quake, how it turned the life there. But thanks God Al-mighty nothing happened and all are safe. I think there is no news of damage of life or property.
May GOD bless all !!!
about 1 year ago
@Moumita Chowdhury
Baby may i have your number…
about 1 year ago
You know when it happened, I was playing a game on my PC when the computer desk started shaking literally an in an instant, my pet birds freaked out- all of them!! They say birds and animals get to know it first.
Then my eyes rested on my half-filled bottle when the water flicked and danced. As if, as if, I was watching a sequel of Stephen Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.
It was amazing and scary.
about 1 year ago
@Santosh Kumar
Hi Santosh,
Thanks for sharing..
We all had our scary night.. Isn’t it.. !!!
about 1 year ago
Hello, I reside at a housing complex near Behala. Last night I finished my studies and went to bed around 1:40 AM. I was listening songs through mobile earphone. Suddenly I felt that my bed is shaking. I went to Balcany and felt that the walls were shaking. I understood that it might be a E quake as i had experienced similar quake when i used to stay in Delhi. I immediately ran to ground floor by staircase. No one was outside the flats. Till the quake has vanished. I could not sleep and kept on watching the news channel. Meanwhile I sent SMS to some of my friends and relatives intimating the same. After 2 hours some of the news channels confirmed that it was a mild quake. I slept at 5 AM in the morning. When I searched the news at google, i visited this site and thought to share my experience to all….
about 1 year ago
hi b
@arun
bharthry
about 1 year ago
Hi im from Baguihati.. was talking with my frnd on the bed.. literally felt it…. wat a scaryy situation!!!!
about 1 year ago
hi alll…
i m from moulali.. my bro was sleepin and suddenly he said deep stop shakin bed…while i was workin on my pc.. at first i though may be i m rotatin my chair so its disturbin him but next sec i thought how can move a bed? and he too thought so and we both pop up… lolz.. scared..
about 1 year ago
Hi,
All clear..
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center / Japan Meteorological Agency calls off TSUNAMI watch and says it is all clear.
Thanks.
about 1 year ago
@Choto Cheeta
Yes, warning for India has also been cancelled i think. Warning: none is being shown currently on http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=3&id=indian.2009.08.10.200514 and
is being shown on http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/
about 1 year ago
@Saurav
Hi,
Some good news by the way, Japan Meteorological Agency just called off all TSUNAMI warning..
I am still not sure by all whether they mean Indian Ocean also or not..
Thanks..
about 1 year ago
I am sleeping but suddenly my wife anamika awake me and i feel my bed is jurking.it,s a scare expericence.Instantly i go to the bathroom and see water in backet is scramling. it,s horrible experince.
about 1 year ago
Ya, of course i know how google works
. that is the main reason i searched for this on the net immediately. This site never mentioned it as a news initially. Rather, you just mentioned that you possibly felt a mild earthquake in kolkata which many people felt. And, the link I was talking about is this: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009kdb2.php#details
Search anything related to this quake … probably this is the first link which is coming up in google SERP at this moment.
It was after 10-15 minutes on getting the news from internet that i saw a news flash on NDTV 24×7 and later all the news channels followed.
And, none of the indian news channels cover any live/current news during night hours except for some emergencies like the 26/11 attack. you wont hear even a headline mentioning this quake before early morning on any indian news channels.
BBC and CNN have already mentioned this as Tsunami warning.
about 1 year ago
Hello Doctor,
Thanks for the reply.
It feels really bad where news channels like CNN breaks out a local Indian news before any local / regional Indian channel could do..
Anyway, main focus is now in TSUNAMI, lets hope it wont happen..
about 1 year ago
Hi,
Thanks for your comment..
Just to let you know, Google takes some time to actually index the content of a web site and as a responsible web site owner, one just cant put a news without any solid confirmation or source.
Thanks..