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Death toll from Indonesia earthquake, tsunami now 1,424

The Economic Times — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 08:23:22 +0000

Indonesia’s disaster agency says the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that struck a central island last week has increased slightly to 1,424.

National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho provided the updated figure Thursday at a news conference in Jakarta.
The disasters struck Palu and surrounding districts in Central Sulawesi province last Friday.

Nugroho said other victims still are buried in the mud and debris and have not yet been recovered.

Source: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/death-toll-from-indonesia-earthquake-tsunami-now-1424/articleshow/66067722.cms

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Indonesia earthquake 2018: Volcano erupts on Sulawesi as time runs out to rescue quake survivors

South China Morning Post — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 07:30:48 +0000

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Indonesia tsunami: drone footage shows trail of destruction in Palu

The Guardian — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 07:15:21 +0000

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More Images From Indonesia’s Devastating Earthquake and Tsunami

Alan Taylor — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:57:47 +0000

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. #

Hafidz Mubarak A / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters
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. #

Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty
A ship sits stranded on the shore after an earthquake and tsunami hit the area in Wani, Donggala, Central Sulawesi, on October 1, 2018. #

Muhammad Adimaja / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters
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. #

Carl Court / Getty
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. #

Irwansyah Putra / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters
An aerial view of destruction in the Petobo subdistrict on October 2, 2018. #

Muhammad Adimaja / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters
Men walk on a damaged road in the Petobo subdistrict of Palu on October 2, 2018. #

Muhammad Adimaja / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters
Coconut trees affected by the September 28 earthquake stand in Petobo village near Palu on October 1, 2018. #

Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty
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. #

Dita Alangkara / AP
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. #

Ulet Ifansasti / Getty
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. #

Muhammad Adimaja / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters
Earthquake and tsunami victims look for goods in a convenience store in Palu on October 2, 2018. #

Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
People drive past a washed-up boat and collapsed buildings in Palu on October 1, 2018. #

Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty
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. #

Fauzy Chaniago / AP
A man stands on a destroyed car as he views the rubble and debris of destroyed buildings in Palu on October 2, 2018. #

Carl Court / Getty
An Indonesian soldier carries a woman being evacuated at Mutiara Sis Al Jufri airport in Palu on October 1, 2018. #

Irwansyah Putra / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters
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. #

Mohd Rasfan / AFP / Getty
Quake survivors scuffle to get live chickens being distributed from a police truck outside a makeshift camp in Palu on October 2, 2018. #

Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty
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. #

Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/10/photos-from-indonesias-devastating-earthquake-and-tsunami/572068/
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Death toll soars past 800 in Indonesian earthquake, tsunami

Ainur Rohmah and Shibani Mahtani — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 04:34:46 +0000

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 racing to get food and water to survivors.

Most of those killed were in the city of Palu, a spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said during a news conference Sunday. But just 11 deaths were reported from Donggala, a town of 300,000 that has been largely cut off from rescuers, with poor communications. Officials have warned that the death toll could rise to the thousands.

“The death toll is believed to be still increasing since many bodies were still under the wreckage” and others were out of reach, Nugroho said. The dead, he said, either drowned when the tsunami hit or were killed by collapsed buildings and rubble.

Photos on his Twitter account show bodies lined up in bags, as police begin the grim task of identifying them and reporting to their families. Victims are being buried in mass graves, but all victims will later be “buried properly,” Nugroho said.

A 7.5-magnitude earthquake triggered the massive tsunami Friday evening that crashed into Palu, Donggala and the surrounding settlements. Officials on Sunday shared chilling videos and photos on social media of land “liquefaction” in the wake of the disaster, during which the soil turns into something akin to quicksand and drags buildings into it.

Even as relief efforts were underway, questions remained about the apparent failure of a warning system and a tsunami alert that was quickly dropped by the Indonesian geophysics agency.

In the city of Palu, rescue teams were evacuating almost 50 people trapped in the ruins of the Roa Roa Hotel, a 50-room, eight-story building that collapsed after the earthquake. Several people were pulled out alive, and rescuers could hear the screams and cries of others throughout the night and see lights shining from cellphones underneath the rubble. A correspondent for a local newspaper wrote on his Facebook page that at least three other hotels with guests in them have also collapsed. Heavy equipment able to move rubble was on its way to the city.

Traumatized victims, many of whom were sleeping in tents and being treated for injuries outside their homes, continued to be shaken by aftershocks. At least 200 have hit the area since the quake, according to local officials.

Whenever there are aftershocks, people have “become panicked, running away with some yelling ‘Tsunami!’ ” said Radika Pinto, a manager in Palu for World Vision, a Christian aid group.

A drone camera shows a collapsed mosque in Palu, Indonesia, on Sunday. (Str/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Hungry survivors have been going into unstable shopping centers to take food, clothing and water. Adding to the chaos, local media outlets have reported that a prison wall collapsed, setting free hundreds of inmates.

The head of Palu Penitentiary, Adhi Yan Ricoh, told the Indonesian magazine Tempo that more than half of the 560 inmates at the prison escaped.

“At that time, the electricity went out, and there were only a few officers,” Adhi said. “They also panicked and tried to save themselves.”

Nugroho, the disaster agency’s spokesman, said a Hercules C-130 plane was deployed to the area to evacuate the hordes racing to get out of the city. Water, he added, was an urgent need.

“The water turned turbid and cannot be consumed. Clean water is an urgent need for the people of Palu,” he said.

People survey damage outside a Palu shopping mall. (Tatan Syuflana/AP)

Thousands of homes, hotels, shopping centers, hospitals and other public facilities were damaged, Nugroho said. Hospital patients in Palu are being treated outside to avoid the danger of aftershocks.

International relief agencies were just starting to reach the area on Sunday, after hours-long overnight drives through landslide-prone areas and badly damaged roads. Dozens of calls made to residents and hotels in Palu were unsuccessful, an indication that widespread communication outages continue.

Nugroho blamed the rising death toll on a lack of warnings and “limited shelter and spatial planning.”

“There is no sound of siren,” he said. Hundreds of people who were gathered on the beach for a festival didn’t know there was tsunami risk, he said.

The head of Indonesia’s geophysics agency, Dwikorita Karnawati, said her agency immediately issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake. The agency estimated the tsunami would occur at 5:22 p.m. local time. But it ended the tsunami warning at 5:36 p.m., prompting criticism that it was lifted too soon. Officials say the tsunami had struck by the time the alert was removed.

“We ended the tsunami warning when the tsunami happened,” Karnawati said.

Videos circulating online showed residents still milling around the beach, unconcerned, as those on higher ground tried to warn them.

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

In December 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

People evacuate on an air force plane in Palu. (Antara Foto/Reuters)

Mahtani reported from Yangon, Myanmar.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/death-toll-soars-past-800-in-indonesia-earthquake-tsunami/2018/09/30/70b8aeda-c417-11e8-9451-e878f96be19b_story.html?utm_term=.dd77002a81ed

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