Parliament was abuzz as ministers discussed the seismic matter among themselves. PM Loh motioned Parliament to be seated and began to speak.
"I'd like to bring all your attention to Professor David Ong who will be speaking about the strange events that are happening recently."
Professor Ong began telling Parliament about the increasing seismic activity that was occurring and the ground uplifting that was happening at Macritchie reservoir. He told them of the significance of the events and that an evacuation of Singapore may be needed if there was concrete evidence of an upcoming eruption. That was when Geologist Robby came and interrupted.
"If, let's say if, there is concrete evidence that an eruption is coming, we not only need to evacuate Singapore, we may need to evacuate places such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Southern Thailand and maybe even Southern Philippines. In a worst case scenario, we may have to evacuate nearly three-quarters of Southeast Asia."
"How do you define a worst case scenario?" A minster asked.
"Well, since we do not have a history of eruptions in Singapore, we can't really define exactly what a worst case scenario is. But what we can do is compare Singapore with Yellowstone Supervolcano. During the last eruption at Yellowstone, pyroclastic flows extended through Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. However, what we can do to predict a worst case scenario at Singapore is that we scan the whole island using new technology which measures how big a volcano's magma chamber is. That was we can measure the magma chamber beneath Singapore and come up with a possible worst case scenario," Geologist Robby replied.
"Send the new technology you have to Singapore at once!" PM Loh said.