Watch Out Singapore!

Watch out Singapore! If this can happen to New Zealand, there is no promised that it won't happen in Singapore as well.

New Zealand's southern island, was struck with a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch. It was indeed a miracle that no one was killed in this natural disaster and only two seriously injured. This probably is the result of the high demand on standard on all building structures in NZ.

What's more to this news is that it was also reported that a new fault line was ripped open at the surface of the earth, destroying hundreds of buildings and cutting power to the region. Read here for more details.

Honestly, to me, if this can happen to New Zealand, a country that is nearly free from most natural disasters, this could jolly well happen to Singapore as well.

Although we pride ourselves that Singapore is a natural disaster free country, no typhoons, no tornadoes, no volcanoes eruption, no earth quake...etc etc.. Wait!! Did I just said no earth quake here in Singapore? Geographically, yes, Singapore is an island that is not on or very near to any of the earth's faults, or earth's crust. But we are near enough to feel or experience the tremors caused by the earthquakes from the nearby country, namely Indonesia's Sumatra Island. I can never forget the feeling I had when I first experienced the tremor in my house in Woodlands.

It's not the first time tremor has hit parts of Singapore, but Woodlands is one 'corner' of Singapore that have never experience any tremor before. So that night when I first experienced the tremor at home, I knew the epic-center of the earthquake was either much closer or it's another large scale earthquake that had affected a larger part of Singapore.

New Zealand, though is sitting on a fault line, they have not experience earthquake for a very long time already. With this recent earthquake that they had, a new fault line was actually ripped open because of the quake. I'm not geologist expert or scientist, but to me, it simply means that if this can happened to New Zealand, can this also possibly happen to Singapore. I do believe the answer is a high probable yes!!

Who can promise or guarantee that there won't be any new fault line ripped open by the frequent earthquake down at Indonesia's Sumatra Island? And who can guarantee that these fault lines can never reach Singapore? I certainly don't like to think that it can never happen to us.

And what happens if this new fault line ever reaches Singapore? With the ways we are digging our underground tunnels, hollowing a great part of Singapore's underground, especially down south areas of Singapore, which is actually a reclaimed land, the amount of damage is certainly beyond my most horrific imagination!

Of course, I can already hear some will say no need to worry, even if this fault line do come to Singapore, it won't be any time soon. Have we not learn any thing from the past natural disasters happened in other parts of the world where disaster happened too 'suddenly' and caught most people by surprised and thus very ill-prepared for the disaster and suffered great deal of damages and lost of lives? Have we not learn any lessons from these at all? Do we have to wait till disaster strike at our door in order to realise that it can happen to Singapore as well?

Take a look at the recent floods that caused by extreme unusual heavy downpour of rain, instead of accepting the fact the geographically things has changed, weather climate has changed, it's a natural phenomenon that no one has ever anticipated it can happened to Singapore, the amount of water that poured out was just too heavy for any of our drainage system can take, many trees were uprooted from the ground, and unfortunately, one was killed because of this. Many goes to blame the government for slacking, for not doing enough to prevent flood from coming, not doing enough to prevent tree from uprooting etc. Many even complains how inconvenient their lives has become whenever there's flood. Have we all live a too comfortable and too protected environment that we couldn't even see the changes in the entire earth's weather patterns?

Our earth is very sick for goodness sake!! It is crying out that she needs to be healed, she needs to do something to heal itself.

In many areas of Singapore, floods was unheard of, it never happened at all, but then in the recent unusual downpour, these places got flooded. And what those residents did? Blame the government.. What the..

Not many people actually realised that when heavy flood can happens to other country, flood that caused huge amount of damages, these kind of flood can also happen to Singapore, and honestly, what happened here in Singapore so far is 'peanut' compared to floods experienced by other countries. Can it get any worse? It certainly can!!

So is this fault line thing, it can also happen to Singapore. So watch out Singapore, hopefully, no one will caught off guard at all should the more unfortunate disaster ever reaches Singapore. And Singaporeans, please don't ever take our stability and peaceful environments, free from natural disasters for granted. All these can be taken away, it can be changed.