At 12:04am this morning there was a 7.5 magnitude earthquake 100km from Jakarta (and 290km deep). Light fittings swung in houses on the ground; but in towers housing apartments and hotels downtown, the whole buildings swayed for quite some seconds - twice!
I immediately ran more than 10 floors down to the ground floor and outside - along with hundreds of other people.
Here are some shots showing people waiting outside. The mood was very aprehensive and many were shocked. The shake was quite frightening and not knowing at the time where the earthquake was, noone knew if this was just a pre-shock before a mighty quake or if this was the real thing.
As it turned out it was the main event and there were no after shocks - err, yet.
The quake wasn't so serious: in a metro area of 15m people nobody was hurt and nothing fell down. But it was a frightening experience anyway.
More information about the quake here.
