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#41 Postby Janice » Sat May 27, 2006 9:08 pm

Why do these people have to suffer so much? They have already had their share of nature's fury.
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#42 Postby wxmann_91 » Sat May 27, 2006 10:03 pm

Janice wrote:Thanks for the great info. Who would think?


You're welcome.

I browsed through the list once again, and I found a 5.7 killed 10,000-15,000 people in Morocco in 1960. So there's the proof.

Anything beyond a 5.0 is a serious quake and should not be taken lightly. A shallow 5.0 can really do a lot of damage.
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#43 Postby AussieMark » Sat May 27, 2006 11:55 pm

a 6.0 in 1999 killed around 1,000 in Columbia

so u can get heavy death tolls from quakes that are below a 7
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#44 Postby AussieMark » Sun May 28, 2006 12:01 am

Powerful Indonesia quake kills over 3,700

BANTUL, Indonesia (AP) -- Desperate relatives searched rubble for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake flattened nearly all the buildings in this rice-farming town while residents slept, killing more than 3,700 people on Indonesia's densely populated Java island.

The magnitude-6.3 quake wounded thousands more and was the nation's worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami. It also triggered fears that a rumbling volcano nearby would erupt.

The earthquake struck at 5:54 a.m. near the famed Borobudur temple complex, caving in roofs and sending concrete walls crashing down. Survivors screamed as they ran from their homes, some clutching bloodied children and the elderly.

The worst devastation was in the town of Bantul, where 80 percent of the homes were destroyed and more than 2,000 people killed. Residents started digging mass graves almost immediately, with family members sobbing and reading the Quran beside rows of corpses awaiting burial beneath a blazing sun.

Village heads recorded their names so the victims could be added to the official death toll. Subarjo, a 70-year-old food vendor, sobbed next to his dead wife, his house destroyed.

"I couldn't help my wife ... I was trying to rescue my children, one with a broken leg, and then the house collapsed," he said. "I have to accept this as our destiny, as God's will."

It was the most recent in a series of disasters to strike Indonesia - from the 2004 tsunami that ravaged Aceh province to a widening bird flu outbreak to the threat of eruption from nearby Mount Merapi.

The United States responded with an emergency allocation of $2.5 million for assistance to victims.

A-P correspondent Robin McDowell reports medical care is in short supply.

"Through financial and material support, the United States is assisting with recovery efforts in coordination with Indonesian authorities, and we stand prepared to provide additional assistance as needed," President Bush said in a statement released late Saturday.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said U.S. Agency for International Development personnel are in Yogyakarta, the central Indonesian city that bore much of the quake's impact.

Australia said it will send $2.3 million in emergency aid.

The quake's epicenter was 50 miles south of the rumbling Merapi volcano, and activity increased soon after the temblor. A large burst spewed hot clouds and sent debris cascading some two miles down its western flank.

Bambang Dwiyanto of the Energy and Mineral Ministry could not say whether the quake caused the volcanic activity but warned that it could trigger a larger eruption.

"It will influence the activities of Mount Merapi, particularly in the lava dome," said Dwiyanto, head of the ministry's geological division.

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

Saturday's quake was centered about six miles below the surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Anthony Guarino of the CalTech Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said Indonesia has the second-highest number of erupted volcanos in historic time, outside of Japan. It also has the largest number of volcanos in the world - 76.

As night fell across the disaster zone - stretching across hundreds of square miles of mostly farming communities in Yogyakarta province - tens of thousands of people prepared to sleep on streets, in rice fields and in backyards, fearful of aftershocks.

International agencies and other nations promised to send relief immediately.

Power and telephone service was out across much of the region, adding to their terror. After spending hours digging in vain through the smoldering debris, many said they were giving up their search for relatives or friends until morning.

"It's just too dark," said Sarjio, who was looking for his 40-year-old neighbor, believed to be trapped beneath the remains of her house. "There's nothing we can do now."

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the army to evacuate victims and arrived with a team of Cabinet ministers to oversee rescue operations. He slept in a tent camp with survivors.

At least 3,731 people were killed, rescue officials said.

"The numbers just keep rising," said Arifin Muhadi of the Indonesian Red Cross, adding that more than 3,400 people were hurt.

The only foreigner reported killed or injured in the quake was a man from Holland. U.S. Embassy spokesman Max Kwak said he did not know of any American casualties.

Yogyakarta is about 18 miles from the sea. In the chaos that followed the quake, false rumors of an impending tsunami sent thousands of people fleeing to higher ground in cars and on motorbikes.

The city is 1,390 miles southeast of Aceh province, where 131,000 people died in a December 2004 tsunami triggered by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake under the sea.

Many roads and bridges were destroyed, hindering efforts to get taxis and pickup trucks filled with wounded to hospitals.

Doctors struggled to care for the injured, hundreds of whom were lying on plastic sheets, straw mats and even newspapers outside the overcrowded hospitals, some hooked to intravenous drips dangling from trees.

Bloodstains littered the floor at Yogyakarta's Dr. Sardjito Hospital, along with piles of soiled bandages and used medical supplies.

"We are short of surgeons," said Alexander, a doctor who goes by one name. "There are still so many critically injured people here."

By nightfall, health officials at the hospital had tallied 89 dead, but bodies kept arriving and some family members were taking them home before they could be added to the official toll.

Neighboring Malaysia said it will send a 56-member search team, doctors and medical supplies, and the European Commission said it would release up to $3.8 million in emergency aid.

The World Food Program was sending a plane with 2 tons of medicine and eight truckloads of fortified noodles and biscuits, agency spokeswoman Brenda Barton said in Rome.

The Italian government also loaded a plane with 27 tons of tents, blankets, water purifiers, electric generators and other aid, the Foreign Ministry said.

UNICEF is sending 9,000 tarpaulins, 2,000 tents, health kits and hygiene kits, spokesman John Budd told CNN. He said a hospital and several health clinics had collapsed, and about 4,000 houses were destroyed.

Almost all people had already been evacuated away from the volcano's danger zone, and there were no reports of injuries there. A geological researcher at the Indonesian Science Institute, Dani Hilman, said he did not believe the quake was powerful enough to create a large eruption.

The quake cracked the runway and waiting area at the Yogyakarta airport, closing it to aircraft until at least Sunday while inspections take place, Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa said.

Officials said the famed 7th century Borobudur Buddhist temple, one of Indonesia's most popular tourist attractions, was not affected by the quake. Nearby Prambanan, a spectacular Hindu temple to the southeast, suffered some damage but it was not immediately clear how much, officials said.

Close to 1 million tourists visit the temples every year.
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#45 Postby Supercell Hunters » Sun May 28, 2006 12:34 am

It the best to stay away from the Indo country because it could collide with australia very soon as making ranges in NT in the future :eek:
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#46 Postby HURAKAN » Sun May 28, 2006 1:21 am

Supercell Hunters wrote:It the best to stay away from the Indo country because it could collide with australia very soon as making ranges in NT in the future :eek:


I guess you mean millions of years. :D 8-)
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#47 Postby AussieMark » Sun May 28, 2006 7:54 am

More than 4,600 dead in Indonesian quake

BANTUL, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescue workers dug desperately for survivors on Sunday and hospitals struggled to cope with the thousands of injured, a day after an earthquake killed more than 4,600 people on Indonesia's Java island.

Up to 20,000 had been injured and more than 100,000 have been left homeless, UNICEF (the U.N. Children's Fund) spokesman John Budd told Reuters, but he said figures were still sketchy.

"Nobody really knows for sure simply because a lot of people were actually evacuated out ... in order to be treated and a lot of people who are injured have been turned away," Budd said.

Trucks full of volunteers from Indonesian political parties and Islamic groups, as well as military vehicles carrying soldiers, headed south from the ancient royal city of Yogyakarta to Bantul, hardest hit by the quake, to help in the effort.

"Kopassus (special forces troops) and Indonesian Red Cross volunteers are trying to comb through rubble because thousands of houses are damaged and people may still be trapped beneath them," Ghozali Situmorang, director general of aid management for the national social department, told Yogyakarta radio.

Medical supplies and body bags were arriving at the airport of Yogyakarta, about 25 km (16 miles) from the Indian Ocean coast where Saturday's 6.3 magnitude quake was centered just offshore.

A vulcanologist said the quake had heightened volcanic activity at nearby Mount Merapi, a volcano experts believe may be about to erupt. Merapi has been rumbling for weeks and sporadically emitting hot lava and highly toxic hot gas.

The official death toll jumped to 4,611 on Sunday night, said the Social Affairs Ministry's disaster task force.

In the Bantul area, which accounted for more than 2,000 of the deaths and where most buildings were flattened, makeshift plastic tents dotted the roads.

In the afternoon heat Sugiyo picked through the remnants of his brick home. He had been trapped with his family before being rescued by other village residents. His mother was killed.

"I found my motorcycle but it was destroyed, then I found the cupboard but it was broken too," said Sugiyo.

But his face lit up as he spotted a pink box containing diapers and baby clothes. "This is for my 2-year-old daughter," he said holding the box tightly in his arms.


Throughout the disaster-struck region, authorities struggled to deliver aid.

"The problem now is that we are still short of tents, many people are still living on the streets or open areas," said Suseno, a field officer of the Yogyakarta disaster task force.

Clean water was another problem, officials said. In Bantul all 12 water distribution systems had been either knocked out completely or were not working properly, UNICEF'S Budd said.

MANY STILL IN BED

Saturday's dawn quake struck while many were still in bed. Houses in the area tended to be poorly constructed, their wooden roofs collapsing on occupants when the quake shook.

Hospitals struggled to cope. Hundreds of people crammed the corridors and grounds of Yogyakarta's Bethesda hospital.

"There's a lot of severe injuries. It was definitely overwhelmed," said hospital volunteer Andrew Jeremijenko.

"I've been to the other hospitals. They're all overwhelmed. There are not enough nurses or doctors to cope with the load."

Saturday's quake was the third major tremor to hit Indonesia in 18 months. The worst, the December 26, 2004 quake and its resulting tsunami, left some 170,000 people dead or missing around Aceh. Indonesia sits on the Asia-Pacific's so-called "Ring of Fire", marked by heavy volcanic and tectonic activity.


On Sunday morning, a quake measuring 6.7 in magnitude struck the South Pacific island nation of Tonga and the New Britain region of Papua New Guinea was shaken by a 6.2 magnitude quake, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

WORLD TRIES TO HELP

The international community has rallied to help Indonesia, offering medical relief teams and emergency supplies. The United Nations, which played a major humanitarian role in Indonesia's past natural disasters including the tsunami, also sent aid.

Australia and the United States have also pledged to send humanitarian aid worth $2.5 million and $2.2 million respectively.

President Bush called his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to express condolences. Yudhoyono has temporarily moved his office to Yogyakarta to be close to the rescue effort.

A prime tourist attraction, Yogyakarta is home to ancient and protected heritage sites such as Borobudur, the biggest Buddhist monument on Earth, which survived the quake.

But the Prambanan Hindu temple complex near the city suffered some damage, as did the roads and houses near it, a Reuters witness said. Some residents were begging passing motorists for money, he added.

Local media reported that outer sections of Yogyakarta's centuries-old royal palaces had also collapsed.
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#48 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Sun May 28, 2006 2:16 pm

Up to 4,600 now :eek: [/quote]
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#49 Postby AussieMark » Sun May 28, 2006 9:57 pm

Indonesia quake death toll passes 5,000

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - A weekend earthquake that shook the heartland of Indonesia's densely populated island of Java killed at least 5,115 people, a provincial government office said on Monday.

According to data provided by the Yogyakarta governor's office, the toll in Yogyakarta province reached 3,463 and in Central Java province deaths were recorded at 1,672.
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#50 Postby Johno8080 » Sun May 28, 2006 11:47 pm

Hey mark it could be our fault why this has been hapening! I mean Australia is moving north so something has to give! what its like so many CM moving north every year! i would prefer to move south then north! Our weather would be more exiting with 4 seasons instead of 2 :idea: :D
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#51 Postby AussieMark » Mon May 29, 2006 12:16 am

indonesia does sit on the boundary of a the Eurasian plate and the Australian plate

•The majority of Indonesia rests on the Eurasian plate, this plate collides with the Indo-Australian plate to the east and south, also the Philippine and Caroline plates to the northeast. The second plate will slide underneath the Eurasian plate.

•In eastern Indonesia there is a region of broad deformation where the continental margins of Australia, southeast Asia, and oceanic plates of the Pacific and Philippine seas are colliding at rates of 80 to 110 mm/yr •The Island of Sumatra in Indonesia is a good example of oblique plate convergence


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#52 Postby Johno8080 » Mon May 29, 2006 12:19 am

In eastern Indonesia there is a region of broad deformation where the continental margins of Australia, southeast Asia, and oceanic plates of the Pacific and Philippine seas are colliding at rates of 80 to 110 mm/yr


So does that mean Aus is moving north or we are moving north and there moving south?
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#53 Postby AussieMark » Mon May 29, 2006 12:26 am

the australian plate is subducting beneath the Eurasia Plate.
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#54 Postby Johno8080 » Mon May 29, 2006 12:31 am

oh derrr yeah i get it!! so its going to be a scary scene in millions of years!! :eek: wonder if our land will become that of indonesia's when it moves into its waters!
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#55 Postby AussieMark » Mon May 29, 2006 8:06 pm

Death toll from Indonesia's quake nears 9000

The earthquake that shook Indonesia's densely populated island of Java has killed at least 8,949 people, a social ministry official says.

Countries across the world have been despatching aid for tens of thousands of earthquake victims in Indonesia as the United Nations issued an urgent call for field hospitals, medical supplies and tents.

In Geneva, United Nations and Red Cross agencies met to try to coordinate the huge mobilisation which has drawn contributions from Beijing to Washington, London to Sydney.

Food, medical supplies and makeshift shelters, along with doctors, nurses and technical experts, were pouring toward the stricken region on Indonesia's main island of Java.

But as survivors braced for a third night in the open in pelting rain and the injured spilled out of overcrowded hospitals, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for better coordination.

"We have to improve coordination, both between the government and the regions, from one region and another, and coordination with foreign parties and non-governmental organisations," he told a news conference in Yogyakarta, the main city in the disaster zone.

More than 5,100 people were killed, many thousands more injured and as many as 200,000 left homeless when the 6.3-magnitude quake struck Saturday.

Up to 25,000 houses were reported damaged and 4,000 of them were completely destroyed, the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) said in a statement. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 100,000 people may be homeless.

Volunteers and foreign rescue teams started distributing emergency rations, clean drinking water, tents and hygiene kits and the UN set up a coordination centre at Yogyakarta airport to organise the flow of help.

"Our priorities are very much in health, hygiene and water," UNICEF spokesman John Budd told AFP.

Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for OCHA, which coordinated the Geneva meeting, said the Red Cross was ready to deliver 10,000 tents, but that more would be needed.

"The most urgent needs to be delivered within three days are three field hospitals, with a capacity of 100 beds each, medical supplies mostly for orthopaedic treatment, generators, tents and shelter items," she told AFP.

International agencies have maintained a heavy presence in Indonesia since the December 2004 quake and tsunami left 168,000 dead in Aceh province. That relief effort was sharply criticised after inappropriate supplies were flown in and bottlenecks hampered delivery.

The UN's World Food Programme has begun distributing emergency food rations in the worst-hit districts, enough to feed 20,000 people for seven days, while the International Organization for Migration is handing out 35 tonnes of food, water and medicines.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies appealed for $A12.91 million ($US9.79 million).


Five aid flights arrived at Yogyakarta airport late on Sunday and more were en route on Monday.

Britain pledged aid worth four million pounds ($A9.8 million), (5.8 million euros), according to a statement on the website of its government's Department for International Development.

Among other aid promises so far have been five million dollars ($A6.5 million) plus food, medical aid and tents from Saudi Arabia, four million ($A5.27 million) each from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, 3.8 million ($A5.01 million) from the European Union, 2.5 million ($A3.29 million) from the United States and two million ($A2.6 million) from China.

Australia also sent medical teams and supplies. Prime Minister John Howard promised additional aid on top of an initial three million US dollar ($A3.9 million) donation to the International Red Cross.

France despatched doctors and technical experts Sunday and said it was ready to send an emergency hospital and more specialists Monday.

Japan, which has already sent two medical teams and donated some 10 million dollars as well as emergency supplies including tents, generators, blankets and water purifiers, agreed to deploy its military to help.

The United Arab Emirates sent a 39-strong rescue team, while Pakistan sent tents, blankets, food and medicines.

Croatia's government said it had allocated $A235,451 million (140,000 euros), (180,000 dollars) to help the earthquake victims, and Bulgaria said it would donate $A269,048 million (160,000 euros).

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#56 Postby feederband » Mon May 29, 2006 8:09 pm

wow
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#57 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Tue May 30, 2006 12:08 pm

Jesus almost 9k. :eek:
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#58 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Tue May 30, 2006 12:19 pm

Would not suprize me if it kepted growing.
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#59 Postby Yarrah » Tue May 30, 2006 12:54 pm

Official deathtoll is 5698 though, but it wouldn't suprise me if it actually is 9000. Fortunatly, more and more help is being brought to the area. But mroe is till needed, since there are still people lying on the pavement in front of a hospital, waiting to be treated.
I'm disappointed the Dutch governement only gave two million Euros for medicines and tents. It should have been more, since Indonesia was once a colony and we are thus obliged to help them as best as we can.
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#60 Postby AussieMark » Tue May 30, 2006 10:26 pm

that report not sure if its true or bogus as that ninemsn site is the only place I found it on.

since its the only place I found the article maybe its speculation of that figure
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