Professor David Ong was attending an emergency meeting held by the Prime Minister(PM) Mr Peter Loh. All the important ministers and scientists were discussing about the recent strange events. They were joined shortly by the Malaysian Prime Minster. PM Loh started to speak. "Dear ministers and scientists, you may have felt and heard about the recent abnomalies that are happening around the island. Yesterday, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck in Bishan and is the largest earthquake in record in Singapore. This, together with a geyser like occurrence which left a girl in the ICU, has caused widespread panic among the population. Our counterparts in Malaysia said those in Johor also felt the earthquake. What we need now are answers. Professor Ong, do you have an answer to this?"
"With all due respects Prime minister, we have no answer as to the abnormalies. It's just too short a duration to get answers. We need more time to find out what exactly is happening," Professor Ong replied.
"Ok. What resources and how much time do you need to get answers?" PM Loh asked
"Firstly Prime minister, we need more seismographs and experts who have experience in these kind of events. In fact, we need geologists from the USGS to assist us," Professor Ong replied.
"Fine then. I'll get the USGS to send some of their geologists here. And you can also work with Malaysian geologists too. As for the seismometers and seismographs, we'll get them to you as soon as possible," PM Loh answered.