Tahun 2002-2003, ayah pernah "nyantri" di Michigan Journalism Fellowship. Fellows, atau peserta program ini --dari Amerika, Eropa, Amerika Latin, Timur Tengah-- hingga saat ini terus keep in touch. Setiap akhir tahun, peserta bikin personal journal, untuk berbagi kabar. Termasuk bila ada peristiwa-peristiwa penting, seperti gempa di Jakarta Rabu lalu. Ini email ayah untuk temen-temennya:Just want to say Hi..
Despite shocked, we are ok..
The deadly 7,3 SR earthquake (Sept 2, 09), hits us just minutes before my tv station run its regular evening (now move earlier to becoma afternoon) program. So we are in a rush.
We thought it just like other earthquake before. Light and last in second.
My office is perfectly in the top of 19 floors building. When it feels little bit longer than usual, and becomes bigger and wilder, people start screaming. Allahu Akbar! Some of us run and hide under tables. Some run to the emergency stairs.. But some other, including me, have to go on, runing the reguler program. "Where r u people?" One producer shouts in in the studio. The PD (Program director) people --audioman, cameramen, an soon), run already.
The phone and celluler suddenly didnt work. I cant reach any of our correspondents in the areas near the epicentrum (it was in Tasikmalaya, still in West Java, around 400 km south-east Jakarta. But my CDMA phone still worked. Yuni called from home. "Yes, I am OK," I said.
Hope you all well and safe too...
Muchlis
Berikut beberapa respon dari temen-temen ayah:
From Yvonne Simon (TV News Director, Idaho)
Muchliss,
I am so glad to hear you and your family are O-K. I wondered if the quake was near you. Did you ever do your newscast? Yvonne
From Ayah:
Hi Yvonne..
Its 3.30 am here now. Just wake up, for sahur.. Meal before begining fasting..
Our newscast during the quake? The show must go on, you know it. So, we run the newscast, all about the quake still happening. Studio camera, for example take not only the anchor, but the ceiling too. We played vt on what going on in the newsroom: how panic we are, people runing, screaming, hiding under thr table..
We gather all information, by any mean. Calling anyone outside, correspondents wherever they are, reaching any guy from meteorology and geophisyc...and so on. So messy. Because lack of studio cameramen, we use audioman to hold the camera.. Because fix line phone didn't work, the anchor had to call anyone directly from her cellular phone... We did what we can.. :) And anyhow the show went on.. (Muchlis )
From Ron French (Detroit News, Detroit),
Its 3.30 am here now. Just wake up, for sahur.. Meal before begining fasting..
Our newscast during the quake? The show must go on, you know it. So, we run the newscast, all about the quake still happening. Studio camera, for example take not only the anchor, but the ceiling too. We played vt on what going on in the newsroom: how panic we are, people runing, screaming, hiding under thr table..
We gather all information, by any mean. Calling anyone outside, correspondents wherever they are, reaching any guy from meteorology and geophisyc...and so on. So messy. Because lack of studio cameramen, we use audioman to hold the camera.. Because fix line phone didn't work, the anchor had to call anyone directly from her cellular phone... We did what we can.. :) And anyhow the show went on.. (Muchlis )
From Ron French (Detroit News, Detroit),
Hello Muchlis, so happy to hear you and your family are OK. I would have one of the people hiding under the tables!
I see Facebook updates from Yuni and your kids - I can't read them but I can tell they are doing well. Love to all, (Ron )
From ayah:
Hi Ron.. I tried to hide too, but I found no more table left.. So I just did what I could, reciting any prayer.. But pretend to be calm..:) Hope u, valerie and girls doing well, and always safe.
Love u all too..
From Ron
there was an interesting exchange on Sue Nelson's facebook page about your experience. An engineer responded that you were safer in a 19-story high-rise than a 5-story building during an earthquake - something about the waves in the shorter building matching the waves of the earthquake and making it much worse. skyscrapers normally survive earthquakes while shorter buildings to not. I didn't understand it, but thought it might be of some comfort..
From Ayah:
Higher, safer?
Hard to understand, but sound acceptable..:) And yes, it give comfort.. And courious too.. So I have to share it to friends here..
From Ron:
here was the message:
"Skyscrapers are usually Ok in quakes as they have a low NF, it is the mid rise ones of 5 storeys or so you should avoid as their NF matches that of the quake , and resonance occurs, which is not nice if you are in the building"
As far as I can tell from the Internet, NF stands for "near-fault ground motion"
It's all over my head
From: Birgit Rieck 1 (KWF Program Manager, Ann Arbor)
Dear Muchlis,
We are all so glad to hear that you are alright. We were talking about
you wondering how you and your family were doing.
On the 19th floor? What a place to be during an earthquake....
Love to you and Yuni and the children.
Birgit
From: Scott Huler (Writer, Raleigh, North Carolina)
So glad you are all okay, Muchlis -- we have been thinking of you. Please give our love to Yuni and the children. Hope to see you . sometime soon!
Scott (and June and Louie and Gus)
From: Drew DeSilver (Seattle Times, Seattle)
Hi, Muchlis:
As soon as I heard about the quake on the radio (BBC World Service), I thought of you, Yuni and the kids. I'm very glad to hear you're all OK. We too live in an earthquake/tsunami zone, so I feel empathy when one hits elsewhere. All best to you and the family,
Drew (Mr. Lisa Lednicer) DeSilver
From: Andrew Finkel (Time magazine, Istanbul)
Goodness Gracious! I am glad you and the family are fine. It's a threat we live with in Istanbul. Thanks for keeping us up today. Love from us all
Andy, Caroline and Izzy
From: Sue Nelson (writer and broadcaster, BBC London)
Hi there .So glad you¹re all OK. How about working in a bungalow? Sue
I see Facebook updates from Yuni and your kids - I can't read them but I can tell they are doing well. Love to all, (Ron )
From ayah:
Hi Ron.. I tried to hide too, but I found no more table left.. So I just did what I could, reciting any prayer.. But pretend to be calm..:) Hope u, valerie and girls doing well, and always safe.
Love u all too..
From Ron
there was an interesting exchange on Sue Nelson's facebook page about your experience. An engineer responded that you were safer in a 19-story high-rise than a 5-story building during an earthquake - something about the waves in the shorter building matching the waves of the earthquake and making it much worse. skyscrapers normally survive earthquakes while shorter buildings to not. I didn't understand it, but thought it might be of some comfort..
From Ayah:
Higher, safer?
Hard to understand, but sound acceptable..:) And yes, it give comfort.. And courious too.. So I have to share it to friends here..
From Ron:
here was the message:
"Skyscrapers are usually Ok in quakes as they have a low NF, it is the mid rise ones of 5 storeys or so you should avoid as their NF matches that of the quake , and resonance occurs, which is not nice if you are in the building"
As far as I can tell from the Internet, NF stands for "near-fault ground motion"
It's all over my head
From: Birgit Rieck 1 (KWF Program Manager, Ann Arbor)
Dear Muchlis,
We are all so glad to hear that you are alright. We were talking about
you wondering how you and your family were doing.
On the 19th floor? What a place to be during an earthquake....
Love to you and Yuni and the children.
Birgit
From: Scott Huler (Writer, Raleigh, North Carolina)
So glad you are all okay, Muchlis -- we have been thinking of you. Please give our love to Yuni and the children. Hope to see you . sometime soon!
Scott (and June and Louie and Gus)
From: Drew DeSilver (Seattle Times, Seattle)
Hi, Muchlis:
As soon as I heard about the quake on the radio (BBC World Service), I thought of you, Yuni and the kids. I'm very glad to hear you're all OK. We too live in an earthquake/tsunami zone, so I feel empathy when one hits elsewhere. All best to you and the family,
Drew (Mr. Lisa Lednicer) DeSilver
From: Andrew Finkel (Time magazine, Istanbul)
Goodness Gracious! I am glad you and the family are fine. It's a threat we live with in Istanbul. Thanks for keeping us up today. Love from us all
Andy, Caroline and Izzy
From: Sue Nelson (writer and broadcaster, BBC London)
Hi there .So glad you¹re all OK. How about working in a bungalow? Sue
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