Indonesia’s disaster-response agency now says that the death toll from the September 28 earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than 1,400, with another 2,500 injured. Aid and supplies are starting to arrive in some harder-hit areas near the town of Palu. Rescue teams are still searching for possible survivors, as some 200,000 quake-affected residents face critical shortages of food, water, and fuel. Now that some time has passed, photographers have been able to visit some of the more inaccessible and devastated areas, including a neighborhood where hundreds of homes were swept away as the ground beneath them turned into a vast mudslide caused by liquefaction due to the shaking of the earthquake.
Rubble and debris lie around the ruins of a mosque following an earthquake, on October 2, 2018, in Palu, Indonesia. #
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An aerial view of an area devastated by an earthquake in Palu, including the fallen mosque from the previous photo, on October 1, 2018. #
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Destroyed buildings stand after the earthquake and tsunami on October 3, 2018, in Palu, Indonesia. #
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An earthquake victim sits bandaged in a makeshift hospital in Palu on October 3, 2018. #
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A survivor walks under a car stuck in a building in Palu on October 1, 2018. #
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A ship sits stranded on the shore after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area in Wani, Donggala, Central Sulawesi, on October 1, 2018. #
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The collapsed Jembatan Lengkung Kuning bridge (right), a local landmark, photographed in Palu on October 3, 2018. #
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In this October 2, 2018 photo, a ship rests near houses after it was swept ashore by the September 28 tsunami in Donggala. #
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A police officer carries his K9 search dog as they continue to search for victims in the wreckage in Palu on October 3, 2018. #
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A mosque that was previously partially submerged sits at an angle after it was knocked off its foundations by the earthquake and tsunami in Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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Indonesian search-and-rescue members ride in the back of a vehicle on their way to continue search operations for victims in Palu on October 3, 2018. #
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Soldiers move dead bodies of earthquake victims in a pit during a mass burial near the Poboya Cemetery in Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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An aerial view of ground shifted due to liquefaction following the earthquake in Palu on October 1, 2018. The violent shaking caused some parts of the ground to become loose and unstable, flowing like mud down the slope, carrying trees, houses, and huge buildings along with it. #
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An aerial view of destruction in the Petobo subdistrict on October 2, 2018. #
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Men walk on a damaged road in the Petobo subdistrict of Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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Coconut trees affected by the September 28 earthquake stand in Petobo village near Palu on October 1, 2018. #
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A boy sits with items salvaged from the ruins of a family member’s house in the Balaroa neighborhood of Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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A man checks his canister as people form a long line for fuel among widespread shortages after the earthquake and tsunami in Palu on October 3, 2018. #
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A police officer stands guard at a fuel station in Palu on October 1, 2018. #
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Earthquake and tsunami victims take goods from a warehouse in Palu on October 1, 2018. #
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Earthquake and tsunami victims look for goods in a convenience store in Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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People drive past a washed-up boat and collapsed buildings in Palu on October 1, 2018. #
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Residents react as rescuers recover the body of a tsunami victim in a village heavily damaged by Friday’s tsunami in Palu on October 3, 2018. #
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A man stands on a destroyed car as he views the rubble and debris of destroyed buildings in Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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An Indonesian soldier carries a woman being evacuated at Mutiara Sis Al Jufri airport in Palu on October 1, 2018. #
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A family rides a motorcycle as they wait for updates on the status of their relatives in Perumnas Balaroa village in Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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Quake survivors scuffle to get live chickens being distributed from a police truck outside a makeshift camp in Palu on October 2, 2018. #
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A quake survivor cradles her two-month-old son at a makeshift camp in Palu in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi on October 2, 2018, after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area on September 28. #
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