Tens Of Thousands Feared Dead In Haiti Quake
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Traumatized Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.

Tens of thousands of people were feared dead and many were believed to be still trapped alive in the rubble of the major 7.0 magnitude quake that hit Haiti’s capital on Tuesday.

There were no signs of organized operations to rescue those trapped in debris or remove bodies and doctors in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, were ill-equipped to treat the injured.
Some of you might have no clue where Haiti is, just like me. Here’s the map:

Brief facts about Haiti (pronounced as Heiti )
Official Name: the Republic of Haiti (République d’Haïti ; Repiblik Ayiti)
Capital: Port-au-Prince
Population: 8,326,000
The total area: 27,750 square kilometres (10,714 sq mi).
Religion: largely Christian, with Roman Catholicism professed by 80% of Haitians. Protestants make up about 16% of the population. Haitian Vodou, a New World Afro-diasporic faith unique to the country, is practiced by an undetermined percentage of the population.

Scores Injured in Indonesia Quake

A strong earthquake was reported in the ocean off Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake measured a magnitude of 6.7, the survey reported. It hit at 3:41 a.m. local time (1941 GMT)

It struck at a depth of 11 miles (17.7 kilometers) and had its epicenter about 10 miles (15 kilometers) north-northwest of Sumbawa and 830 miles (1,335 kilometers) east of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

There were no immediate reports that tsunami warnings were issued and no immediate reports of damage.

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.

Quake near Indonesia’s Sulawesi injures about 50
Over 300 buildings were seriously damaged and over 3,000 people escaped from their homes after a 7.4-magnitude quake rocked North Sulawesi province on Thursday morning, according to the Health Ministry.

The quake damaged houses, religious centers, school buildings and hospitals, but no report of casualties, head of a crisis center of the Ministry Rustam Pakaya said.

AP has this report:
A series of powerful earthquakes at dawn killed at least three people and injured dozens more in remote eastern Indonesia on Sunday, cutting power lines and badly damaging buildings.

A 7.6-magnitude quake struck at 4:43 a.m. local time (1943 GMT) about 85 miles (135 kilometers) from Manokwari, Papua, at a depth of 22 miles (35 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Agency said. It was followed by a strong 7.5 aftershock.

Three bodies were found including a 10-year-old girl, hospital director Hengky Tewu told The Associated Press.

Another Tsunami in Indonesia Possible in the next 30 Years
Another tsunami-triggering earthquake off Indonesia is “extremely likely” in the next 30 years and may claim a higher toll than the 2004 surge that killed more than 220,000 people, according to a study in the journal Science.

Researchers studying changes over the past 700 years in coral reefs near Indonesia’s Mentawai islands found evidence the region is due for a quake as big as magnitude 8.8, and that a smaller temblor last year is probably a harbinger of bigger ones.

A large shock would set off a tsunami that would strike cities and towns in western Sumatra, scientists led by Kerry Sieh of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said in the study, to be published today.

At least 50 people were killed when a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan near the city of Quetta today, the country’s largest ambulance service said.