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by Harry PEARL Agence France Presse PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — Nearly 1,400 people are now known to have died in the quake-tsunami that smashed into Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, with UN officials warning needs are “vast” for both desperate survivors and rescue teams still searching for victims. Almost 200,000 people want urgent help, the UN’s humanitarian office said, among them tens of thousands of children, with an estimated 66,000 homes destroyed or damaged by the 7.5-magnitude […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Two quakes struck in quick succession off the southern coast of Indonesia’s Sumba island on Tuesday morning, the United States Geological Survey said. A shallow and moderately strong 5.9 quake struck at 2359 GMT, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) off Sumba, an island of some 750,000 people. It was followed up some 15 minutes later by a stronger 6.0 magnitude quake in the same area at a depth of 30 kilometers. Sumba […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The Indonesian government on Monday called for international help to deal with the aftermath of a devastating series on earthquakes and a tsunami in the island region of Sulawesi that killed at least 832 people. President Joko Widodo ” authorized us to accept international help for urgent disaster-response,” the government’s head of investment Tom Lembong said, as dozens of aid agencies and NGOs lined up to provide live-saving assistance and the […]
PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — Squads of orange-clad rescue workers clambered over the tangled remains of an Indonesian hotel Sunday, hoping to dig out 50 to 60 guests still feared trapped by an earthquake-tsunami disaster. Authorities believe the 80-room Hotel Roa-Roa in the city of Palu on Sulawesi island was near capacity when the district was ravaged by a 7.5 magnitude quake and a tsunami wave Friday. “It is assumed there are still 50 to […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippines extended its condolences to Indonesia, following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed almost 400 people on Friday, Sept. 28. “We grieve with our Indonesian brothers and sisters and stand hand in hand with them in praying for all of those who lost their lives in this tragedy,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano, who is in New York attending the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, said. According […]
Indonesia was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries. The country’s national disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before cancelling it. The strong quake hit central Sulawesi island at a shallow depth of some 10 kilometres (six miles), just hours after a smaller quake killed at least one person in the same part of the country. The latest quake […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A strong and shallow earthquake with a 6.1 magnitude struck central Indonesia Friday, geologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake was centered around 18 kilometers (11 miles) deep, just off the coast of Sulawesi island, the US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage and Indonesia’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG) said there was no risk of a tsunami. Indonesia is one of the […]
by Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK Agence France Presse ZEERIJP, Netherlands (AFP) — The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean — but when they started making their own earthquakes it proved a step too far. The tiny village of Zeerijp in the northern Netherlands looks ordinary on the surface, yet closer inspection reveals cracks in homes, schools and historic buildings. A series of quakes caused by extractions […]
MATARAM, Indonesia (AFP) — A malaria outbreak has infected at least 137 people in Indonesia’s West Lombok after the island was rocked by a series of earthquakes in recent months, an official said Sunday. The quakes and aftershocks since July have killed about 500 people and forced hundreds of thousands into evacuation shelters or tents. As a result the number of malaria cases is twice as high as in the same period last year, […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — A strong 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand’s remote Kermadec Islands on Wednesday but authorities said there was no tsunami threat. The quake struck at 4.19pm (0419GMT) at a depth of 111 kilometres (69 miles), with its epicentre 770 kilometres northeast of Auckland, the US Geological Survey said. “Based on all available data, there is no tsunami threat from this earthquake,” the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The uninhabited […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — The death toll from a powerful earthquake that triggered massive landslides in northern Japan rose to 44 on Monday with tens of thousands of police and troops still on the ground to support survivors. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said no one was left on a missing list, which suggested the figure could be the final death toll. Around 40,000 police, fire fighters, troops and maritime safety officials were providing assistance, […]
A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake shook southern Philippines on Saturday at around 3:16 pm which was followed by three aftershocks more than two hours later, sending frightened residents fleeing from buildings, officials and eyewitnesses said. The quake struck off the coast of the southern town of Manay in Davao Oriental at about 3:16 pm (0716 GMT) at a depth of 14 kilometers (8.6 miles), the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said in a […]
