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More Images From Indonesia’s Devastating Earthquake and Tsunami
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…
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Death toll soars past 800 in Indonesian earthquake, tsunami
JAKARTA — The death toll on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi from twin disasters, a major earthquake and the tsunami that followed, jumped to more than 800 on Sunday as rescue workers began to take stock of the wreckage — pulling out survivors buried under the rubble from a collapsed hotel, treating patients in tents and…
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Tsunami hits Indonesia’s Palu after strong earthquake
A strong tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake has hit a coastal Indonesian city, officials say. Waves of up to 2m (6.6ft) high swept through Palu on Sulawesi island, not long after authorities had lifted a tsunami warning. Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic and a mosque amongst the…
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Powerful earthquake in Palu (Donggala, Sulawesi) triggered tsunami, Indonesia 28 september 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ_78iYGNw4
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Tsunami hits Sulawesi, Indonesia today after 7.5 earthquake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jUeHrDGFJ8
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Hurricane Florence: 10 days after storm, fresh chaos in Carolinas
David Covington jumps from a porch railing to his canoe along with Maura Walbourne and her sister Katie Walborne in Conway, S.C. on Sept. 23, 2018. The three paddled a canoe to Covington’s home on Long Avenue on Sunday to find it flooded and the floor boards floating. | Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP…
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Earthquake today: Earthquakes strike California, Alaska, Indonesia and Japan today
EARTHQUAKES are not an uncommon occurrence in areas of seismic activity – 34 have been reported today alone. Here is the latest news. The biggest quake to strike today was a magnitude 5.0, in Kainantu, Papua New Guinea, neighbouring the island archipelago Indonesia which is still reeling from a devastating earthquake in August. Today’s quake struck deep below the…
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Florence: Death toll climbs to 36 as women in sheriff’s van drown
Police say mental heath patients were being transported to another centre when floodwaters swept their van away. Responders congregate near where two people drowned Tuesday evening when they were trapped in a Horry County Sheriff transport van [Gerald Herbert/AP Photo] [Daylife] Two women died when a sheriff’s van taking them to a mental health facility…
