Manila: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.4 magnitude occurred 17km northeast of Baler in southern Luzon, Thursday morning, affecting walls of weak buildings in nearby areas, and alternately sending shockwaves to several areas in Metro Manila, rocking several five-star hotels and high rise buildings, and creating panic among visitors and tenants, sources said.
“I felt it at the 10th floor of my office-building on Ayala Avenue,” said Christian Nye, who works in upscale Makati City, the financial district.
“I thought I had a vertigo when I saw the paintings on the walls shaking,” said an office worker at the Ayala Museum on Dela Rosa Street, also in Makati City.
At the Senate building near Manila Bay, office workers panicked because of the possible occurrence of tsunami. |
