Tsunami hits Palu Indonesia!

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[313ghazi]

This has gotten really bad now - death toll at 1200 people, food and water running out!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tion-turns-to-anger-as-food-and-water-run-out

@waz you might want to update the title to reflect the death toll.

 

[TaiShang]

Xi sends condolences to Indonesian president over deadly earthquakes

Xinhua Published: 2018-09-30


Chinese President Xi Jinping sent condolences to his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo on Sunday over the casualties caused by deadly earthquakes and a tsunami that devastated Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.

A damaged mosque is seen after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the city of Palu in Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia on September 30, 2018. [Photo:IC]


In his message, Xi said he was shocked to learn that the strong earthquakes and an ensuing tsunami hit Indonesia and caused a great loss of lives and property.

On behalf of the government and people of China and himself, Xi extended sincere condolences to the victims and sympathies to their family, the wounded and the people in the disaster-affected area.

Calling Indonesia a friendly neighbor of China, Xi said China shares the feelings of the Indonesian people and stands ready to provide assistance according to the needs of the Indonesian side.

The Chinese president said he believes that under the strong leadership of Widodo and the Indonesian government, the people of Indonesia will soon overcome the disaster and rebuild their homes.

Multiple powerful and shallow quakes of 6.0, 7.4 and 6.1 magnitudes on the Richter scale followed by a tsunami devastated the central province of Indonesia on Friday.

The death toll has jumped to 832 and is expected to rise, while some 540 people seriously injured and 16,732 people forced to flee their homes, a spokesman of the Indonesian national disaster management agency said on Sunday.

http://chinaplus.cri.cn/news/politics/11/20180930/190608.html

 

[Indos]

Sulawesi earthquake death toll crosses 1,200

People searching among the debris in a residential area yesterday following Friday's earthquake and tsunami in the Indonesian city of Palu in Central Sulawesi. The disaster management agency said 16,700 people have been displaced and about 2.4 million in Donggala and Palu will need humanitarian aid. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Number may go up further as rescuers finally reach Donggala, which is nearer the epicentre
Francis Chan Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta
Rescuers are racing against time to reach victims of last Friday's earthquake still trapped under rubble two days after the disaster. Meanwhile, the death toll continued to rise as more bodies were found.

President Joko Widodo yesterday sought to reassure the victims in Central Sulawesi that no effort would be spared to help them get back on the road to recovery. "I hope people will be patient. We are working on this together," he said.

His comments, made during his visit to parts of the provincial capital Palu, devastated by a 7.4-magnitude quake and a 3m-high tsunami it triggered, came as the death toll rose to more than 1,200 yesterday.

The evacuation of quake victims, including a 53-year-old Singaporean who was in Palu for a paragliding competition, also started with the additional flights.

Mr Ng Kok Choong, who was among more than 60 foreigners evacuated by Indonesian military (TNI) transport, arrived home in Singapore yesterday afternoon.

Rescuers are trying to reach those trapped under collapsed buildings.

But they are taking a more cautious approach when digging for survivors among the debris, as aftershocks were causing building structures to be unstable. Dr Sutopo said more than 200 aftershocks have been recorded since Friday.

Officers from national search and rescue agency Basarnas were seen chipping carefully through rubble at what remains of the Roa Roa Hotel in downtown Palu, while another team at the nearby Tatura Mall were trying to establish a safe access point into the building.

Basarnas official Agus Haryono told reporters at the site that rescuers had detected mobile-phone signals inside the mall and were trying to find a way to get in.

Before he arrived in Palu yesterday, President Joko mobilised the TNI and police to support rescue and relief operations. His administration has also set aside 560 billion rupiah (S$51.4 million) for relief efforts.

This latest crisis comes after earthquakes hit Lombok, a resort island in West Nusa Tenggara province, located south of Sulawesi, recently. Relief efforts are still ongoing in Lombok, where nearly half a million people were left homeless following a series of deadly earthquakes in July and August.

Meanwhile, two Singapore Civil Defence Force officers are in Indonesia as part of a team from the Asean Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance.
The number is set to go up further as rescuers finally reach Donggala, which was cut off from them until yesterday, because roads leading to the regency were damaged and communications were down.

Donggala, normally a 30-minute drive from Palu, is nearer the epicentre of the quake and the authorities are fearing the worst.

According to national disaster management agency BNPB, some 16,700 people have been displaced by the quakes, and about 2.4 million in Donggala and Palu will need humanitarian aid.


"Fuel, drinking water, medical personnel, tents, electricity, food and other essentials are urgently needed," BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said at a press conference in Jakarta yesterday.

Emergency teams could not get to Palu earlier because parts of its airport runway and air traffic control tower were damaged by tremors. But the local air navigation authorities yesterday cleared Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie airport for more aircraft, including commercial flights, to land and take off.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sulawesi-earthquake-death-toll-crosses-1200

 

[AndrewJin]

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[NEKONEKO]

Volcano Erupts in Latest Disaster to Strike Devastated Indonesian Island

(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — A volcano erupted Wednesday on the same central Indonesian island struck last week by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, and authorities warned planes about volcanic ash in the air.

Mount Soputan on Sulawesi island spewed a massive column of ash more than 6,000 meters (19,700 feet) into the sky. No evacuations were immediately ordered.

A government volcanologist said it’s possible the eruption was accelerated by the magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck on Friday.

“It could be that this earthquake triggered the eruption, but we have seen an increase in volcanic activity since July and this began surging on Monday. Yet we can’t say there a direct link, as the mountain is quite far away,” Kasbani, the head of Indonesia’s Vulcanology and Geology Disaster Mitigation agency, said on local television.

Kasbani, who uses one name, said planes have been warned to avoid the area.

Nazli Ismail, a geophysicist at the University of Syiah Kuala in Banda Aceh on Sumatra island stressed there was no concrete evidence to show the two incidents are linked.

“People talk about the butterfly effect. The concept is that when a butterfly flaps its wings, it can cause a catastrophe,” he said. “So it is possible for the earthquake to trigger the volcano eruption, but it’s not conclusive. This needs to be further investigated.”

Danny Hillman Natawidjaja, a geologist with Indonesia’s Institute of Science, echoed the views, saying there was not enough data to make a link.

“In principle, the seismic waves from the earthquake could increase pressure in the volcano’s magma chamber and could cause an eruption. We don’t know for sure,” he said. He cited the example of the eruption of Mount Talang volcano in Indonesia’s Sumatra province in April 2005, which geologists have said was connected to the devastating December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.


Ismail said the Soputan volcano eruption isn’t surprising as Indonesia sits on the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire,” and Soputan is one of the most active volcanoes on the island.

Soputan’s eruption status was raised from an alert to standby 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the summit and up to 6.5 kilometers to the west-southwest. Standby status means the public should avoid the area nearest the volcano and have masks available in the event of ash fall.

Planes were warned of the ash clouds because volcanic ash is hazardous for their engines.

National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho dismissed concerns that the volcano’s eruption could affect planes transporting aid and supplies to the quake disaster areas. The earthquake set off a tsunami and devastated several communities, with the official death toll rising Wednesday to 1,407 and expected to increase further. Thousands of others are injured and more than 70,000 have been displaced from their homes.

Nugroho said volcanic ash is not heading to the city of Palu, where most of the victims from the quake and tsunami are from, as the wind is blowing in another direction. He said it hasn’t disrupted plane services or affected any evacuations from the disaster areas.

Nugroho denounced videos that had appeared on social media allegedly showing villagers fleeing from billowing black smoke from the volcano and a long smoldering lava river as a hoax. He said so far no lava has spewed out from Soputan. No injuries or deaths have been reported and there is no need for any evacuation at the moment, he added.

Indonesia is an archipelago of more than 250 million people and government seismologists monitor more than 120 active volcanoes.

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[CountStrike]

Authorities raise death toll to 1,571 after earthquake in Indonesia
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Mohammad Rizal, 57, stands among the rubble at an earthquake devastated area in Balaroa, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Oct. 5, 2018. EPA-EFE/MAST IRHAM


An Indonesian man weeps during a Friday prayer at a temporary shelter for the earthquake and tsunami survivors outside the grand mosque in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Oct. 5, 2018. EPA-EFE/MAST IRHAM


Indonesian muslims perform Friday prayer at a temporary shelter for the earthquake and tsunami survivors outside the grand mosque in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Oct. 5, 2018. EPA-EFE/MAST IRHAM

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Indonesian authorities Friday raised the death toll from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last week to 1,571.

During a televised press conference in Jakarta, the spokesperson for the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said the number of people injured had risen to 2,549 and there were still 152 people buried in the mud and rubble.

A total of 1,551 people have buried in mass graves, Nugroho added.

Rescue workers on Friday were working against the clock to find any remaining survivors who are still trapped, with humantiarian groups estimating that up to 1,000 people who be buried under the rubble.

In Palu - the provincial capital and one of the most affected areas - the power grid was 60 percent out of action, according to the state-owned power company which hopes to restore power by Oct.14.

Some 800 people had to spend the night at the airport as they waited to get out of the city, where a large number of personnel from humanitarian organizations are present.

 

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Indonesia quake, tsunami toll reaches 2,010

Jakarta, Oct 9 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll to 2,010 from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Sulawesi island on September 28.

The official number of missing remained 671 while it is feared that 5,000 people could be still buried under the rubble, reports Efe news.

The majority of the victims, 1,601, died in Palu, the provincial capital of Central Sulawesi, the most affected region, National Agency for Disaster Management spokesperson, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said during a press conference.

The rest of the deaths occurred in Sigi (222), Donggala (171) and Parigi Moutong (15) regencies in Central Sulawesi while one death was registered in Western Sulawesi.

Sutopo said that 10,679 people were injured, with 2,549 of them seriously injured, while 82,775 were displaced and have been placed in hundreds of shelters.

More than half of the victims have been buried in mass graves while the others were buried by their families.

A majority of the 8,276 people who have left Palu - a city of 350,000 inhabitants - have done so via its airport that is operating normally, although 200 meters of its runway was damaged.

Meanwhile, the search and rescue operations that will continue until Thursday will focus on recovering bodies beneath the debris and mud in the most affected regions of Balaroa district and Petobo village in Palu and Jono Oge village in Sigi.

According to Sutopo, nearly 5,000 people were buried in Petobo and Balaroa where the national search and rescue agency, Basarnas, has retrieved 20 and 18 bodies, respectively.

The authorities have been able to restore 90 percent of the power supply in the affected area.

The Asian Development Bank on Monday approved a grant of $3 million for immediate humanitarian aid.

The Sulawesi quake and tsunami were the worst to have struck the country since the 2004 tsunami that hit Aceh, in the west of the archipelago, leaving 167,000 people dead.

--IANS

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