To raise fund for Ragavendra Temple building. Devotees have organized a food fair at SRJK (T) Sungai Pinang, Penang. Most of the devotees cooked their favorite food from home and sold them at food fair. They also had vegetarian food.
Besides that, they had organized a medical check up, henna (Indian arts), computer games, lucky draw and many more event.
Many people have turned up to the food fair. Some devotees have performed a live devotional song at the food fair to make the event more interesting
The tsunami alert issued by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii for the region late this evening has been cancelled.
The alert was issued for Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Thailand following a powerful earthquake in central Sumatra.
In a second bulletin issued at about 7.55pm, the centre said: “Sea level readings indicate that a significant tsunami was not generated.
“Therefore the tsunami watch issued by this center is now cancelled.”
Indonesia’s meteorological agency had earlier reported that a tremor with a magnitude of 7.6 with its epicenter just off the southern coast of Sumatra had occurred at 6.17pm.
Tremors were felt as far as in Jakarta and in neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore.
Indonesian experts earlier reported that the earthquake did not trigger any tsunami.
Meanwhile, office workers were evacuated from a number of high-rise buildings in Kuala Lumpur including KLCC.
“Pots were shaking and people could actually feel the building swaying,” said Linda Yeow, an investment banker working just outside Kuala Lumpur.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has earlier issued a tsunami alert.
“Earthquakes of this size have the potential to generate a destructive local tsunami and sometimes a destructive regional tsunami along coasts located usually no more than a thousand kilometers from the earthquake epicenter,” said the tsunami warning centre’s first bulletin.
“Areas further from the epicenter could experience small sea level changes and strong or unusual coastal currents.
“However, it is not known that a tsunami was generated. This watch is based only on the earthquake evaluation.
It said that since the earthquake struck at 6.17pm Malaysian time, should there have been a tsunami, it would have reached Georgetown, Penang at 11.46pm and Port Dickson at 3.18am tomorrow.
Tsunami hits Pacific islands
Meanwhile, at least 113 people are dead after another earthquake in the Pacific and tsunami hit the Samoan islands and Tonga.
“There has to be more than a hundred, the last count was at 2pm (9am Malaysian time) and there were 84 bodies,” a worker at Samoa’s Tupua Tamasese Hospital told AFP.
Officials said 22 had died in American Samoa and another seven in Tonga.
Dozens more people were missing and feared dead, but officials in South Pacific islands said communications were down to many outlying villages.
In American Samoa, about 100km from Samoa, Homeland Security director Michael Sala said the tsunami which followed about 20 minutes after the earthquake, did most of the damage.
“We have 22 confirmed dead and it could go much higher,” said Sala, who added the wall of water, which he estimated at 7.5 metres high, swept ashore demolishing buildings.
The eastern part of American Samoa was without power and water supplies after the devastating earthquake, which struck at 6:48am (1.48am Malaysian time).
In Tonga, government officials said there were seven dead and three missing on the small island of Niuatoputapu.
The officials flew over the island from the capital Nuku’alofa but were unable to land because of damage to the airstrip.
They said they would make their way there by sea overnight to assess the full extent of the damage.
Tremors were felt as far as in Jakarta and in neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore.
“There has to be more than a hundred, the last count was at 2pm (9am Malaysian time) and there were 84 bodies,” a worker at Samoa’s Tupua Tamasese Hospital told AFP.
The eastern part of American Samoa was without power and water supplies after the devastating earthquake, which struck at 6:48am (1.48am Malaysian time).