Indonesia earthquake: Hundreds dead in Palu quake and tsunami

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

More than 380 people have been confirmed dead after a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit an Indonesian city on Friday.
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Indonesia's disaster agency said at least 384 people have been killed. More than 350 have been injured.
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"We have not received comprehensive reports yet because communications are cut. Many bodies were found along the shoreline because of the tsunami, but the numbers are still unknown," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the agency, told Reuters.
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Palu and Donggala are home to more than 600,000 people. A minister said the runway in Palu was damaged, although it was hoped that helicopters would still be able to land.



Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45683630

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(we did have an earlier LBN thread on the tsunami, but this large increase in the deaths and destruction seems to deserve a new thread)





Collapsed hospital



Treating in the open air

[Bfd]

1. Wow. Thanks for the pics and article.

I don't know how they survived nor how they recover.

[suffragette]

2. Big earthquakes are scary enough, but then to have a tsunami follow. Terrible.

[NJCher]

3. the open air hospital

How awful that must be, to be sick and have an earthquake happen. Life is just brutal.

Cher

[yuiyoshida]

4. ...

[Stuart G]

5. Thanks for posting.. 10 foot waves hit this city at the shoreline.

Last edited Sat Sep 29, 2018, 09:43 AM - Edit history (1)

.... 700 miles south of the Philippine Islands

another link from the Jakarta Post..(newspaper in Jakarta Indonesia, Jakarta is capital city of Indonesia, about 1000 miles away from where the quake took place )

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/09/29/central-sulawesi-quake-what-we-know-so-far.html

[tblue37]

6. K&R for visibility. nt

[uppityperson]

7. K&R for visibility

[MrsCoffee]

8. K&R for visibility

[Stuart G]

9. Death toll now at 450...still counting. Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/death-toll-in-indonesia-surpasses-380-after-earthquake-tsunami/2018/09/29/0de85990-c3c2-11e8-8f06-009b39c3f6dd_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.35836f590d2d

These two paragraphs from the article above:

The death toll was expected to rise significantly as rescue officials race to reach another city, Donggala, and some settlements completely cut off by the quake and tsunami triggered by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi, about 800 miles northwest of Jakarta.

Indonesian vice president Jusuf Kalla, in an interview with local media, said the toll could reach well into the thousands.

[nitpicker]

10. Sunday update from DW

https://www.dw.com/en/tsunami-kills-hundreds-in-indonesias-sulawesi-after-earthquake/a-45680574

(snip)
A tsunami triggered by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday evening crashed into at least two cities, including the popular tourist resort of Palu, with officials raising the death toll to 832 on Sunday.

The new death toll given by the National Disaster Mitigatin Agency marked a sharp rise from the some 380 dead reported the previous day, almost all of them in the hard-hit city of Palu.

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said "thousands" may be found to have died in the disaster when a final toll is issued.
(snip)

[nitpicker]

11. Live update thread from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2018/sep/30/tsunami-indonesia-sulawesi-rescue-earthquake-deaths-live