Earthquakes! Last night Allan and I experienced another phenomenon of living in the Philippines. We had just gotten into bed and turned out the lights when the bed began to jiggle. We both had the same thought—“what is he (she) doing over there?” Allan though noticed the windows were also rattling. After our bed quit doing a jig, he asked me; “did you do that or was that an earthquake?” Once we established that both of us had been lying still, we concluded that it had been an earthquake. Our deduction was helped by the fact that this wasn’t the first one of the evening. Earlier, we had been at a concert and afterwards our friends asked u
s if we felt the quake. Crazy us, we thought it was just vibrations from the music. The Philippines is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire; a place where volcanic and earthquake activity are great. The epicenter of these quakes (there have now been 5) is an island just south of here called Marinduque where the quakes have been registering just above 5 on the Richter scale. They have been felt at about intensity 4 in Manila. So far there has been no damage reported. I am not sure how many miles or kilometers it is from here to Marinduque, but you can see the island on the map below. We are close to the big star by Manila and the red arrow points to the small island just south of our big island of Luzon. There have been other quakes in our time here, but they have only happened at night and we slept through them.
s if we felt the quake. Crazy us, we thought it was just vibrations from the music. The Philippines is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire; a place where volcanic and earthquake activity are great. The epicenter of these quakes (there have now been 5) is an island just south of here called Marinduque where the quakes have been registering just above 5 on the Richter scale. They have been felt at about intensity 4 in Manila. So far there has been no damage reported. I am not sure how many miles or kilometers it is from here to Marinduque, but you can see the island on the map below. We are close to the big star by Manila and the red arrow points to the small island just south of our big island of Luzon. There have been other quakes in our time here, but they have only happened at night and we slept through them.
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