Birthday in Paradise. Diving during the day, drinking @ the bar watching the sunset, nice dinner in a good restaurant was a good start for the evening. Lots of people, lots of drinks, lots of fun! We danced and drank the night away till they closed the bar and we stumbled back home.
I just felt asleep as I suddenly woke up and thought - I am still fuckin drunk - but as I realized that the whole house is shaking, things felt of the tables and my bed was fuckin moving around. As it stopped , after at least 20 seconds, I searched for my flatmate, Anki. She stood confused like me in the doorway, not realizing what just happened. It was completely dark, no power and I tried to get dressed and pack some stuff together to get out of here as soon as possible. We are living 20 m off the beach so I was scared of a tsunami. Anki was still half asleep ( or drunk like me ) found it more important to have a pee and go back to bed. Finally I made her go and we bumped into some people who had the same idea – driving to the next highest hill. More and more people were coming. We sat on the bar ( who just reopened @ 3 am ) and slowly realized what just happened.
This earthquake was very strong, 7.3 on the scale and just 21 miles north of our island in 10 km depth. An hour later we felt a second earthquake and everybody run out of the bar. This time it was “just” a 4.1….
The whole night we spent outside on blankets, talking to other peoples story´s while feeling after shakes all the time. Still scared of a tsunami they cancelled the warning, the earthquake was to shallow – we were lucky. We waited till the sun came up and went back to our small house to see the effect of the earthquake.
In the morning everything went on as usual – Island life. In the next week we had 3oo after shakes and another small Earthquake with 5.0 on the scale. Our reactions : just another Earthquake.
Life goes on as usual.
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