A strong earthquake hit Manila at around 12:27 PM, November 27, 2007. It lasted around 5 seconds or so but it was strong. At the second floor of my home, I could see the hanging lights sway. Feeling like the world was going to collapse, I yelled at Lauren who happened to be at the phone oblivious to the earth rocking to and fro. I kept yelling “earthquake” but no she ignored me and continued yakking on the phone. Oh and as I was getting dizzy, I could hear a barrage of text message alerts spewing out of my cellphone . AJ Matela , Jeff , Marhgil and others were twittering (Aka micro-blogging) live as the earthquake shook Metro Manila.
The Twitter alerts…
(To my Twitter Friends: If you feel offended with the screencap, please let me know so I can delete your twitter. I just wanted to post the sequence of events as it happened. Hope you don’t mind)
12:48 PM, November 27- Read the report on Magnitude 6.0 - LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Magnitude 6.0 - LUZON, PHILIPPINES
2007 November 27 04:27:01 UTC
Location 16.037°N, 119.906°E
Depth 62.5 km (38.8 miles) set by location program
Region LUZON, PHILIPPINES
Distances
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.2 km (5.7 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters Nst= 47, Nph= 47, Dmin=917.9 km, Rmss=1.16 sec, Gp= 61°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source
* U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
12:58 PM - From GMANews.TV Manila skyscrapers sway in earthquake
In a phone interview with GMANews.TV, Jenjen de Ocampo, science research specialist of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), said the tremor measured 4.2 on the Richter Scale.
De Ocampo said the quake’s epicenter was located 77 kilometers northwest of Lingayen, Pangasinan.
She said the quake was tectonic in origin and had a depth of 32 kilometers. The possible source of the earthquake was the Manila trench.
The quake was felt at intensity 3 in Manila and at intensity 2 in Quezon City, Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte and Gapan Nueva Ecija, De Ocampo said.
Interviewed over QTV’s Balintanghali, Phivolcs chief Renato Solidum said intensity 4 was felt in La Union.
Solidum said significant damages to property were not to be expected given the magnitude of the earthquake
Did you feel it? What would you do if an earthquake rocked again? Twitter? or Run?
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November 27th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
no one reported hurt? thank God. ayoko na ng trahedya.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Hey I tweeted first!
November 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Jeff’s twit is the best: Earthquake! Get under a desk! (I will after I finish this tweet).
Hahaha! :-p
November 27th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
That was the strongest earthquake Ive felt in a long while. It’s weird because all I could think of was, I MUST TWIT THIS! lol! I even took some photos while it was happening. AM I weird or what? hehe
November 27th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
[...] Manila Earthquake by Noemi Dado [...]
November 27th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
@ladycess- None that has been reported
@Ade- in my twitter- AJ was first, then Jeff, Marhgil, then you. I deleted the twitters of those in protected mode, hence your twit is not shone
@Prudence- I can’t believe Jeff had time to twit. My first instinct was to yell at Lauren.
@Baklang AJ- well that’s live blogging. hehe . not weird.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Dang! AJ beat me to it by the minute! dang it PLDT’s not giving me my money’s worth
November 27th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
@Noemi
True! Live blogging is live blogging, just like anna dizon is anna dizon! hahah
@Jeff
I think PLDT loves me more than you! PLDT din ako! hehehe
November 27th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I was in KFC during the earthquake…and I did not feel a thing. Probably because there were people around me then…then again I’m known to sleep through earthquakes when it happened at night. =))
November 27th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I felt my dorm room here in Cavite shake. I wasn’t sure nga if I was just imagining it.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
How bilis you blogged about this. Cathy also blogged about it 30 minutes after it happened.
Got a bit scared too. Was looking under my table and wondered if I could crawl in there in case of emergency. But it had lots of stuff. ay naku. Anyway, I am glad there seems to be no damage. May it stay that way.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
@jeff- maybe your twitter came a micro-second away from AJ
@AJ- at least you made the news. Was it CNN?
@Tina- I guess when you’re in a ground floor, the impact isn’t felt much.
@Ann- at first denial hits us when the initial swaying starts. But when it gets strong, that’s when the fear starts. scary
@annamanila- I blogged 30 minutes later. Cathy blogged like 15 minutes after the earthquake. I was still gathering news kasi. I am glad too there were no damage.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
[...] Now, it’s all over the news already. And of course, it’s all over the Philippine blogosphere. Thank God, there’s no severe casualties. All I can see are reports of sudden dizziness. [...]
November 28th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Ba’t kaya hindi ko man lang naramdaman dito sa Las Pinas, Nagulat na lang ako sa news na may lindol pala. Ahh.. siguro natutulog ako nun.. hehe.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:55 am
I’m glad you guys are ok.