Zware aardbeving (7.6) bij Sumatra: Mogelijk 1000 doden

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Op woensdag 30 september 2009 12:34 schreef Yi-Long het volgende:
Gaat goed de laatste tijd met de Aarde

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Op woensdag 30 september 2009 16:51 schreef Adolecens het volgende:
Het is wel opmerkelijk dat zulke dingen meestal achterin het jaar gebeuren. Zonnestand, aardstralen?

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Op woensdag 30 september 2009 15:51 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
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Up to 1,000 killed and more trapped by earthquake in Indonesia's Sumatra
As many as 1,000 people have been killed and many more have been trapped under collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra yesterday.

By Aislinn Laing
Published: 8:15PM BST 30 Sep 2009

Thousands of people were trapped as buildings, roads and bridges collapsed Photo: REUTERS
The earthquake struck at 5.16pm (10.16 GMT), 78 kilometres (48 miles) southwest of the city of Padang in West Sumatra, along the same fault line that spawned the 2004 Asian tsunami.

According to US Geological Survey, it measured 7.9 on the Richter scale, just shy of the size of earthquake that sparked a tsumani, devastating the Pacific islands of American and Western Samoa to the east of Australia on Tuesday.

Earthquakes hit Japan and Indonesia, but no tsunamiThe shaking could be felt in high buildings in the capital, Jakarta, several hundred miles, and in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia. A tsunami alert was sent out to countries along the Indian Ocean, prompting many to flee to higher ground.

The death toll was set at 75 within hours of the quake, but Health Ministry crisis centre head Rustam Pakaya warning it could exceed 1,000 in the city of close to one million residents.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla added: "It's hard to tell because there is heavy rain and a blackout."

Thousands of people were trapped as buildings, roads and bridges collapsed. The earthquake also triggered a landslide which cut power and telecommunications, resulting in further confusion.

The crisis was exacerbated by the collapse of the city's main hospital and fires which broke out as power lines were severed.

Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie said authorities should prepare for the worst. He said damage could be on a par with an earthquake in the central Java city of Yogyakarta in 2006 that killed 6,000 people and damaged or destroyed 150,000 homes.

Three military transport planes in the capital were prepared to deliver aid including tents, blankets and medicine.

World Vision's Indonesian emergency head Jimmy Nadapdap said the charity would attempt to send out a disaster survey team to the affected area on Thursday morning.

"It is critical that we get people into the quake zone as soon as possible to find out what has happened," he said.

"If buildings have collapsed then people are likely to be in urgent need of food, water and especially shelter. The injured will also need medical assistance."

A resident of Padang city, Yuliarni, said the shaking was "the worst I have ever felt".

"Houses have collapsed, the lights and electricity were cut off, people were fleeing to higher ground and some were hurt," she said.

Padang, the capital of Indonesia's West Sumatra province, sits on one of the world's most active fault lines along the "Ring of Fire" where the Into-Australia plate grinds against the Eurasia plate to create regular earth tremors.

Geologists warned that Padang was vulnerable to more quakes and tsunamis, and even a volcanic eruption.

"There will be aftershocks but it's difficult to predict whether there will be a bigger quake," the unnamed head of Indonesia's Geological Disaster Mitigation and Volcanology Centre said.

"There are three big volcanoes in West Sumatra – Merapi, Talang and Tandikat. We fear that this quake might cause volcanic eruptions there."

A 9.15 magnitude quake, with its epicentre roughly 600km (373 miles) northwest of Padang, caused the 2004 tsunami which killed 232,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and other countries across the Indian Ocean.

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PADANG - Some 200 guests of the Ambacang Hotel in the city of Padang have not been evacuated yet from the building that collapsed during the 7.6 magnitude quake that his the area last afternoon at 17:15 local time. Head of the Disaster Management Team, Dedi Hanidal, said that there were some 200 people that had been trapped, but could not be freed because there is no proper equipment.

The hotel building has collapsed completely during the quake and victims are now searched by hand. It is feared that most people have died. Some 32 bodies were pulled out of the rubble until 03:30 local time. They were brought to two separate hospital morgues in the city. The head of the team said that he expected many thousands of people to be trapped in many collapsed buildings in the city. With chances of survival being slim, all effort is done to find survivors as soon as possible.

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As much as 80 schoolchildren are trapped in the Bimbingan Belajar Primagama school along Jalan Proklamasi in the city of Padang. The building has been flattened by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake last afternoon. Based on information, local residents and some members of a search and rescue team are digging through the rubble by hand to find survivors and recover bodies.

Four bodies were recovered, while 14 others were only injured. The victims are brought to a local hospital while others will have to wait until they are rescued. A head of the civil police Satpol PP said that the situation was critical because there was no heavy equipment available.

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Op donderdag 1 oktober 2009 01:30 schreef SoldMayor het volgende:

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In een hotel mogelijk al 200 doden.
En in een school mischien al tientallen doden.

Ik denk dat er duizenden doden zijn gevallen.

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Op donderdag 1 oktober 2009 16:01 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Op donderdag 1 oktober 2009 22:33 schreef SoldMayor het volgende:
Officieel al 1100 doden.