I woke up at around 5:00 in the morning, grab a cup of coffee and opened my laptop to check some emails. After a few minutes I found myself watching Happy Feet 2, my wife kept on bugging me to watch this movie for weeks and since I got nothing else to do might as well give it a try, at 8:00 my little guy woke up and we have to get him ready for his bath.
Around 11:50 in the morning, I was working on something online when suddenly our room has shaken and it looks like we were having an earthquake. After realizing that it is indeed an earthquake, I immediately grabbed my wife from the bed and ran outside the house carrying my son. Everybody else in the neighborhood noticed it and had gone out from their houses.
It lasted for about 30 seconds and it was quite strong that it measured 6.9 magnitude. After a few minutes, we head back to our room thinking that that was the end of it, but another earthquake just struck so we decided to stay outside for a little while.
When everything calmed down and we were already in our room we suddenly heard people screaming outside shouting that there is a tsunami coming. Everybody in the house got alarmed so we went upstairs and stayed at the terrace watching people screaming and crying carrying their belongings and heading to the mountains.
Its definitely a crazy experience especially after knowing that the tsunami thing is just a hoax. Apparently Cebu is surrounded by islands so there is no chance that a tsunami will hit Cebu area.
But the whole fiasco was not at all funny, it scared the hell out of me!
Here are some pictures that I got from the internet.
