Thursday 3 September 2009

Tasikmalaya Earthquake


On the 2 September 2009 an 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia. It is said that there are 44 dead and many wounded. The earthquake hit in two phases first at 3:00pm and 8 minutes later the second hit but this more powerful. During lunch yesterday at JIS a big 1 meter long black snake slithers in to a hole under a tree because we think that snake moved from its place to another because it could sense the earthquake and didn't want to be killed.
In Jakarta the capital of Indonesia were all the sky scrapers were all swaying from side to side. At my house in Mega Kuniningan was moving a lot and the whole residents had to be evacuated, and on the road every was waiting to get in their house, offices and apartments. At least nobody died in Jakarta and my family was safe. On the bus when I went on the first the whole bus was shaking and every on shouting EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now a tsunami watch is on and people are preparing


1 comment:

Michael said...

Tom, this comment has much good information in it, and it reads fairly well until the end which seems runs right off the page. Still, you are to organize your writing around the social studies standards, and you've not done that. You were to address two points, and have not done so.