Earthquake rocks western Indonesia
Posted on September 30, 2009
Update October 1, 11.30 PM: SCTV reports the dead victims reaches 530 people. Presiden SBY said this quake in Padang, West Sumatra is bigger than the one in Yogyakarta.
Update October 1, 7.20 am: Metro TV reports about 75 people are reportedly dead so far.
Update September 30: Detik.com reports that there are at least four people reportedly dead.
A powerful quake brings down houses on Indonesia’s Sumatra, AFP reports
Indonesia’s meteorological agency says a powerful earthquake has shaken western Indonesia.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami alert for Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Thailand.
The Indonesian agency said the tremor had a magnitude of 7.6. Its epicenter was just off the coast of Sumatra
The U.S. Geological Survey put the strength at 7.9.
CNN gives more details:
The quake was recorded about 33 miles from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra, which is home to more than 800,000 people.
… The quake struck at about 5 p.m. local time.
Several buildings in Padang were damaged, Metro TV reported. People were seen running out of their homes and toward the hills.
TVOne pictures from the scene showed people milling around outside in the city.
Phone lines were apparently down in many parts of Padang. Indonesia’s Tempo Interactive, a media outlet based in Jakarta, had trouble reaching its correspondent in the West Sumatra city, according to journalist Purwani Diyah Prabandari.
“I hope it’s just the cell phone connection,” Prabandari told CNN.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a tsunami watch for Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia, but canceled it soon after.
The temblor did generate a tsunami just under one foot high, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
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The quake was recorded about 33 miles from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra, which is home to more than 800,000 people.
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Majapahit is back….
Again disaster hit us.. Hope they get the best rescue there
disaster alerts for mankind,
may be given strength for those affected by earthquake
we need to analize what’s wrong ……..
This is really sad news. Hope Indonesian people will recover from it
I hope the disaster will be over soon
Again and again. Never ending 4 sad stories