Indian ocean wide Tsunami watch
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tankee:
Singapore is indeed blessed. We do not have suffer effects of tornado, volcano, earth quake and other natural calamities. Raffles has foresight.The possibility of a tsunami reaching Singapore is very very small.
It would require a very massive earthquake probably way above 9 or even 10 on the ritcher scale, to hit at the right place and at the right angle, to generate a super big and powerful tsunami, that is strong enough to move over Sumantra and possibly southern Johor, or to move down Straits of Malaca after being deflected and bounced off a few times, then the waves can reach us.
But the feeling of staying in a house facing the sea is still scary to me. -
janet_lee88:
these houses can easily cost $20M and above so surely will be covered by insurance or won't it? (tsunami considered as natural calamity -->act of God right?)
Singapore is indeed blessed. We do not have suffer effects of tornado, volcano, earth quake and other natural calamities. Raffles has foresight.tankee:
The possibility of a tsunami reaching Singapore is very very small.
It would require a very massive earthquake probably way above 9 or even 10 on the ritcher scale, to hit at the right place and at the right angle, to generate a super big and powerful tsunami, that is strong enough to move over Sumantra and possibly southern Johor, or to move down Straits of Malaca after being deflected and bounced off a few times, then the waves can reach us.
But the feeling of staying in a house facing the sea is still scary to me. -
by default, not covered.
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Think we are more likely to be hit by a falling tree branch while driving then being hit by a tsunami.
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tankee:
We have bomb shelters within our house but no earthquake shelter, with so many high rise building surrounding us, we will be crushed to death by the collapsing buildings...The possibility of a tsunami reaching Singapore is very very small.
It would require a very massive earthquake probably way above 9 or even 10 on the ritcher scale, to hit at the right place and at the right angle, to generate a super big and powerful tsunami, that is strong enough to move over Sumantra and possibly southern Johor, or to move down Straits of Malaca after being deflected and bounced off a few times, then the waves can reach us. By then, if it is still strong enough to cause damages to Singapore, I can't image the damages it would have caused to Sumantra.
more likely we would have suffer damages from the massive earthquake than from the tsunami. -
711mum:
IMHO the chances of us going into a situation when we will use the bomb shelter is higher than we being hit by an earthquake massive enough to collapse building
We have bomb shelters within our house but no earthquake shelter, with so many high rise building surrounding us, we will be crushed to death by the collapsing buildings...tankee:
The possibility of a tsunami reaching Singapore is very very small.
It would require a very massive earthquake probably way above 9 or even 10 on the ritcher scale, to hit at the right place and at the right angle, to generate a super big and powerful tsunami, that is strong enough to move over Sumantra and possibly southern Johor, or to move down Straits of Malaca after being deflected and bounced off a few times, then the waves can reach us. By then, if it is still strong enough to cause damages to Singapore, I can't image the damages it would have caused to Sumantra.
more likely we would have suffer damages from the massive earthquake than from the tsunami. -
Funz:
Think we are more likely to be hit by a falling tree branch while driving then being hit by a tsunami.
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tankee:
IMHO the chances of us going into a situation when we will use the bomb shelter is higher than we being hit by an earthquake massive enough to collapse building[/quote]That's true
We have bomb shelters within our house but no earthquake shelter, with so many high rise building surrounding us, we will be crushed to death by the collapsing buildings...711mum:
[quote=\"tankee\"]The possibility of a tsunami reaching Singapore is very very small.
It would require a very massive earthquake probably way above 9 or even 10 on the ritcher scale, to hit at the right place and at the right angle, to generate a super big and powerful tsunami, that is strong enough to move over Sumantra and possibly southern Johor, or to move down Straits of Malaca after being deflected and bounced off a few times, then the waves can reach us. By then, if it is still strong enough to cause damages to Singapore, I can't image the damages it would have caused to Sumantra.
more likely we would have suffer damages from the massive earthquake than from the tsunami.
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With underwater earthquake, is it safe to go for a cruise ? I remember there was a cruise when the waves crashed into the ship although there was no quake then.
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I once read an article about why won’t Singapore get hit by any tsunami.
Singapore has coverage in the east, west and south by Indonesia. And to the north there is Malaysia, Thailand and Indochina.
The worst case scenario of earthquake is a 9.0 earthquake in The Philippines, even so, there is a lot of land mass from the sea areas near Singapore that will greatly reduce any tsunami coming in from The Philippines.
When the tsunami height gets reduced, the "tsunami" will reduce to just 50cm. The "tsunami" would already be just a splash coming up shore of Singapore.
But anyway, the areas that will most probably be hit by a tsunami IF there is any would be the western regions (eg Boon Lay) and northeastern regions (eg Pulau Ubin)
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