
Friday afternoon ( Oct 16th 2009), I supposed to pick up my husband in his office. He asked me and the kids to pick him up since he wanted to show his office room to the kids as well and he planned to bring us to the Pizza restaurant on the way back home. I was driving the car, passing some office buildings when I saw many people on the streets just standing there outside their office building. There were so many traffic jams on my way to my husband's office. I was wondering what was happening before. Why those people sit outside the office, is there another bomb attack again or what's wrong?
Then I arrived in my husband's office and I saw the same things. People were outside the buildings. I could not enter the parking area so I asked the security guy there about the situation. And he said that there was an earthquake before, that's why those people came out from the building.
I called my husband few times but I could not reach him. Maybe the traffic for the cellular phone was very busy at that time. Many people were using their phone to call someone that they know. That's why I could not call my husband.
Finally I could reach him and asked him to came to the place where I parked my car. Then he explained that the earthquake was somewhat big because he could really feel the shakes, he was in the 6th floor and he felt it very strong. He was on the phone when it happened then he needed to hang up the phone because he had to run down the stairs in case something bad happening there.
This was not the first earthquake that we had since we were here. This time the epicenter of the earthquake was in Ujung Kulon, about 200 kilometers from Jakarta area. But the earthquake was only 6.3 or 6.5 ( did not really check it ...) meanwhile the first earthquake that we had was stronger. It was more than 7 , I guess.
But since few weeks ago, there was a big earthquake disaster in other place in Indonesia (the one in Padang, Sumatra Island), people are getting more afraid this time with the earthquake that happened on Friday afternoon.