Saturday, June 26, 2010

Earthquake in the Meeting: Published on 13 Dec 2006


I had a long staff meeting yesterday with the staff of WATSAN from 9:00- 1:00 PM. I think because of this, the earth shook at 12:12 local time. We in the upstairs of our building, and stood up with the first vibrations. But as the quake is increasing, we all ran down stairs.. yelling at each other "dont panick!".

All the houses in Aceh are fitted with Chandliers, and I use to wonder why Achenese install those expensive Chandliers. But it looks like, they are the best indicators of an earthquake. Even for the slightest tremor, they make sweet sound which helps to run out before there is a major tremor.

The earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter Scale, and its the third quake this month. In Aceh, we have minor tremors almost every day, but 3-4 quakes with higher magnitudes.

In the meeting we have discussed about the contracters, who are not obeying the rules and regulations of the contract. We have developed a quality monitoring format, and flow chart which helps us to monitor the quality at regular intervels.

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