Chapter 1653 Tsunami

In the west of the United States, it is still Christmas night, while in the east of Asia, it is already the morning of the 26th.

For those West Asian countries along the Indian Ocean, this is a pleasant morning.

After a night of revelry, many Western tourists are still sleeping soundly. The local businesses that have made a lot of money in the past two days are also resting. With the improvement of the global economy, their income is good in this peak season.

The local residents are the same, because today is the weekend.

Around eight o'clock in the morning, many people felt the ground moving in their dreams. Maybe it was an earthquake? But no one cared.

Since mid-December, people along the Indian Ocean coast have frequently felt such vibrations, which are said to be earthquakes.

But this has not brought any impact or inconvenience to everyone's life. For such vibrations, they are now accustomed to it like the residents of San Francisco.

Some people who get up early are surprised to see the gift given to them by nature: the sea water along the coast has receded on a large scale, and many fish have been washed onto the coast.

This is really a pleasant surprise! More and more people have joined the ranks of picking up fish.

At this time, they did not think about why the scale of the ebb tide was a bit large, and no one connected this abnormal scene with the vibration felt in the morning.

Even the ships sailing in the Indian Ocean at this time would not notice that the surging ocean was a few centimeters higher than before.

Around ten o'clock, more and more people came down from the rooms to the swimming pool and walked from the hotel to the beach. At this time, the surging waves had already reached the nearest Indonesia.

They plunged into the shallow coastline and immediately stirred up waves several meters to more than ten meters high.

These waves with huge kinetic energy rushed over the protective forest that could only be used as an embellishment due to overdevelopment, and rolled towards the beach and all places along the coast.

At this time, those who were sunbathing by the swimming pool downstairs of the hotel vaguely heard exclamations from the coastal direction. Just when they didn't understand what was going on, they were shocked to see that there was water not only in the swimming pool, but everywhere.

Some people stood on the lounge chairs, and some ran towards the hotel, but the sea water rose very quickly. After just a few steps, the water had risen to the knees. After two more steps, it rose to the hips, and then to the nose.

When the panicked people were ready to grab their companions' hands, their heads were already under the water.

Those who jumped hard and rushed to the surface of the water looked back and saw that the beach, swimming pool..., everything was gone, and they were just standing in the ocean like that...

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Soon after people along the Indian Ocean coast felt the tremor in the morning, institutions including Indonesia, China and the United States detected an earthquake.

This earthquake occurred at 0:58:55 UTC, 160 kilometers west of Sumatra and 30 kilometers deep underwater. The local agency measured the magnitude as 6.8, so they didn't care too much. A few days ago, an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 was detected north of Australia's Maiju Island. In comparison, this was not worth making a fuss about.

At this time, the results measured by China and the United States were 8.6 on the Richter scale.

In fact, the intensity of this earthquake is far more than that.

Its intensity is 9.3, which is the second largest earthquake in the world in more than a hundred years, following the 9.5 magnitude earthquake in Chile in 1960.

Tomorrow, various institutions will raise the magnitude of this earthquake to 9.

What is the concept of a magnitude 9 earthquake? This means that the energy it releases exceeds the total energy consumed by the United States in a month, which is about equivalent to the energy released by 7.5 of the largest nuclear bombs in the United States (about 25 million tons). It is enough to boil 10,000 liters of water for everyone on the earth.

The Richter scale is calculated logarithmically, and the magnitude of a magnitude 9.3 earthquake is about 2.5 times that of a magnitude 9.0!

At this time, this earthquake, whose magnitude was not even clear, made the entire Indian Ocean turbulent. The tsunami it caused hit Indonesia, the nearest country, within an hour, Sri Lanka and India within four hours, and finally continued to East Africa.

In an instant, some small islands in the Indian Ocean were completely submerged or even disappeared!

The countries along the Indian Ocean coast had a messy warning of the tsunami, but the spread of related news was very fast.

However, the vague news that came out at this time did not attract the attention of those people who were not on the Indian Ocean coast, or even those on the Indian Ocean coast. I am afraid that even those people involved did not know how big the disaster they suffered was.

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In Silicon Valley, Feng Yiping held his daughter and watched the special car sent by the horse farm take Meimei away. "It's okay. If you miss her, we can go to see her every day. You see, we have to stay in our own homes at night, and Meimei is the same. She needs to go back to her own home at night."

"It's past ten o'clock, you have to go to bed too," Huang Jingping said.

"Okay, goodbye Meimei, I'll come to see you tomorrow,"

Feng Yiping's mobile phone suddenly rang again. He saw that it was Mayer's again, "Have you seen the news, Feng, there was a tsunami in the Indian Ocean,"

Has it happened? "Someone in the company must want to thank you. You know, as far as I know, there are several people who are going to go there for vacation. Because of your party tomorrow, they delayed their plans,"

When Mayer said these two sentences, Feng Yiping's cell phone kept ringing with incoming call notifications, "I'll go check it out right away. Sorry, I have other calls here."

"Then I won't bother you. I will attend your party on time tomorrow morning."

As soon as Mayer hung up the phone and Feng Yiping told Huang Jingping that there was a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Cummins' call came in, followed by Mike, Merback, Randolph, Hastings, Page...

Those who had been calling to congratulate them on Christmas during the day called at this time, and they all said that Feng Yiping had chosen to hold the party tomorrow. It was a good choice, and many people had avoided the tsunami this time.

In particular, Mike's gratitude was the most sincere. He had already made plans to take Lisa and the children to Bali, Thailand.

However, they all kept their words and did not show any concern. Feng Yiping only found out after watching the news on TV that the news at this time only mentioned the tsunami, but there was no information about the consequences of the tsunami. No explanation was given.

People who saw the news were completely unaware of the destructive power of the tsunami at this time, and it was probably the same in China. Jin Ling only sent him a text message, saying that he was arranging statistics to see if any employees were vacationing there at this time.

Feng Yiping was still a little worried. He personally called Gao Yiming, Li Ruiyuan, and the person in charge of the Hong Kong hotel.

For domestic employees, he is actually not too worried, because Christmas is not a public holiday, but it is different in Hong Kong. Christmas in Hong Kong has long been a holiday - of course, so is Buddha's Birthday.

The news that came back completely relieved Feng Yiping. Because the company held a Christmas dinner last night, all employees of the three companies in Hong Kong did not vacation on the coast of the Indian Ocean.

Some colleagues who planned to take a flight in the morning also canceled their trips when they saw this.

The three said bluntly that they had received many thanks from their colleagues for this.

"Go to sleep," Huang Jingping yawned again and walked in. In her opinion, this tsunami was nothing to worry about.

Feng Yiping naturally couldn't say at this time how serious the tsunami would be. "I also want to call Zuckerberg,"

The highly motivated Xiao Zha did not go back to the United States for Christmas this time. Although his company in India is concentrated in the two cities of Bangalore and Mumbai, it would not have any impact.

Because Bangalore is on a plateau in the interior of India, and Mumbai is on the Arabian coast, Feng Yiping is still a little worried about whether any employees will go to other parts of India at this time.

He looked at the map and found that the one most likely to be affected was one of the so-called high-tech golden triangles in India, Chennai, which is a city next to the Indian Ocean.

Fortunately, Zuckerberg, who received his call, said that they had also seen the tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean and was said to have caused a huge disaster in Bangladesh. Chennai was indeed affected, but he had already counted it immediately. There are no employees in the affected cities in India.

He was the one who received the call from Feng Yiping and the one who really had a general understanding of the tsunami.