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27 May 2006 10:23:56 PM |
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INDONESIA EQ |
www.nytimes.com/
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, Sunday, May 28 =E2=80=94 Rescue workers and military
and police units scoured this ravaged historic city in central Java
through the night, using searchlights to find survivors of a powerful
earthquake that struck early Saturday, leveling homes, hotels and
bridges. Residents began digging mass graves to bury the bodies lining
the streets.
The death toll had risen to nearly 3,500, according to government
officials cited by news services.
Aftershocks repeatedly rattled the area, about 250 miles east of the
capital, Jakarta, as the injured were taken to hospitals over cracked
roads on flatbed trucks, vans, buses and even motorbikes. But many were
blocked by broken bridges.
The earthquake set off increased activity at a nearby volcano, Mount
Merapi, which shot hot gas clouds and volcanic rocks down its western
slopes soon after the earthquake. Many residents first thought the
earthquake was the long expected eruption.
A driving rain began late Saturday night, and major hospitals set up
tents in their parking lots to try to protect the overflowing masses of
the injured. At one hospital, many victims lay on the wet ground with
only newspaper beneath them. Nurses ran in and out, ferrying quickly
dwindling supplies.
Yogyakarta, with a densely packed population of half a million, is the
cultural center of Java, and is a popular tourist destination in
Indonesia. One of the main hotel districts was badly damaged, but there
were few immediate reports of fatalities there.
Officials said that, at the least, tens of thousands of residents had
been left homeless. Survivors camped outside their houses or what was
left of them, or in the many rice fields in the area, huddling in the
rain around small fires. Electricity remained out in much of the
southern half of the city.
In the hardest hit part of the Yogyakarta area, Bantul, Mayor Idham
Samawi said that rescuers had counted 2,200 dead and that many more
people were alive but trapped under thousands of collapsed buildings.
The epicenter of the earthquake, which struck just before 6 a.m., was
about 15 miles southwest of Yogyakarta on the southern coast of Java
along the Indian Ocean, and about six miles below the surface. Fearing
a tsunami, many residents fled for higher ground, but the ocean brought
no further destruction.
Rescue efforts got under way quickly, with some emergency workers
already stationed in Yogyakarta (pronounced JOG-jakarta), and
evacuation points already designated because Mount Merapi has been
showing signs of impending eruption for months. Indonesia has the most
active volcanoes of any nation.
Subandriyo, director of the Merapi division of Yogyakarta's Volcanology
Center, said he expected activity at Mount Merapi to increase as
shockwaves continued to disturb the mountain. If the large lava dome
that has been forming for months is dislodged, he said, a serious
eruption could follow.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the army to help evacuate
victims, The Associated Press reported, and arrived Saturday in the
province with a team of cabinet ministers. He slept in a tent camp with
survivors.
Some international relief agencies also managed to get quickly to
Yogyakarta to ease the burden of local hospitals, and to expand search
and rescue operations.
The earthquake cracked the runway at the airport in Yogyakarta, forcing
it to be closed, but it was not clear how that would affect relief
efforts.
Expressions of shock and condolence, paired with pledges of aid, began
to flow into Indonesia. Malaysia said it would send a 56-member search
team, doctors and medical supplies, the A.P. said, and the European
Commission said it would release up to $3.8 million in emergency aid.
In Washington, President Bush said in a statement released late
Saturday: "On behalf of the American people, Laura and I send our
deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those who lost their
lives in the devastating earthquake in Indonesia. Our thoughts and
prayers are with the Indonesian people as they comfort all those
affected by this terrible disaster.
"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."
After the tsunami in 2004, which killed 131,000 people in Indonesia's
Aceh Province, American Navy ships were among the earliest to respond
with help.
But the need here is escalating rapidly. A doctor with the Indonesian
Red Cross, who was volunteering at the hospital in Bantul, said that
all the hospitals in the area were teeming with victims and that the
situation was becoming desperate.
"We're running out of anesthetic, thread and bandages," the doctor,
Lydia Setyawati, said. "And we can only give early treatment. We don't
have the specialists to treat some victims."
At Bantul Muhammadiyah Hospital, the closest hospital to the quake's
epicenter, an official, Kusmarwanto, said he had counted 39 bodies, The
Associated Press reported. "We need help here," he said.
At nearby Dr. Sardjito Hospital, The A.P. said, the count was 60 dead,
but more bodies were lined up in a hallway, and some family members
were taking their dead away uncounted.
Thousands of residents, mostly women and children , huddled at the
evacuation points. Some said they lacked food and water.
One of the city's historic sites is the Borobudur Buddhist temple,
which is more than 1,000 years old and is on Unesco's list of World
Heritage sites. Officials said late Saturday that it did not appear
that the temple had been significantly damaged.
Nearby Prambanan, a Hindu temple, was reported to have suffered at
least some damage.
Jullya Vigneshvara contributed reporting for this article..
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| User: "Binder Dundat" |
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28 May 2006 10:25:49 PM |
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The death toll had risen to nearly 3,500, according to government
officials cited by news services.
In a massive relief effort Canada has offered to send $2,000,000 Cdn. and
tens of thousands of Islamic Indonesian immigrants to help repopulate the
area.
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| User: "K Miller" |
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28 May 2006 12:18:40 AM |
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Didn't I say that the lead-in EQs would be 'local' and/or
'elsewhere', before the BIG ONE.
[The Resident 'Wise Men' threw me for a LOOP on this ONE - I
(briefly) thought that their GOD may have been more powerful (and
knowing) than my GOD.] ( }:< ( )
Just Kidding. ;-)
"Just Waiting for the Cork to POP - right about now !!!" :-(
Please don't hate me, I really am not that 'Heartless' - I'm just a
'conduit' here.
:-)
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| User: "Krib" |
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28 May 2006 08:30:41 AM |
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"K Miller" <miller#k@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:hoaeg.7571$%Z2.459839@news20.bellglobal.com...
Didn't I say that the lead-in EQs would be 'local' and/or
'elsewhere', before the BIG ONE.
You say soooo much, most of it utter rubbish miller or have you forgotten
about your theory on how fishes gills work? or your theory on how the
conservation of energy can be broken by "waves crashing"? or perhaps your
little theory on my once being a "choir boy" with secrets to hide?
Still now another resident pretender is back you can explain these lies
and more for us eh miller?
"Just Waiting for the Cork to POP - right about now !!!" :-(
Yeah no point actually speaking in coherent, plain sentences when your pseudo
mythical references can twisted so easily to mean anything like they usually
can.
Please don't hate me, I really am not that 'Heartless' - I'm just a
'conduit' here.
3000+ people killed, some probably not even cold yet and you're in here
gloating about having "foretold" this tragedy, you're a disgusting and fraudulent
leech miller.
I suppose you'll acknowledge the USGS as having foretold this too then miller?
they've been telling of HUNDREDS of small tremors for months in that region,
indicating they said that larger EQ's are possible anytime at no notice.... does your
sick gloating make you feel special still miller?
So many lies you ran away from, you going to have the guts to face them too miller
or is your little presence here just to boast and gloat about how you foretold
a common geological event?
Speak up fraud, gills... choir boy.... physics.... waves... so much for you to display your
ignorance and lies about ;0)
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krib
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| User: "mkufjg" |
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28 May 2006 01:52:10 PM |
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Why does it bother you *so much* when people are just being who they are
Krib?
Should the mentally ill not have acceptance in our society also?
If you are as *great* as you think, you should be trying to provide 'care'
for these people!!!!
"Krib" <kribuk@gmailREMOVECAPS.com> wrote in message
news:5Cheg.2840$l8.2125@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
"K Miller" <miller#k@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:hoaeg.7571$%Z2.459839@news20.bellglobal.com...
Didn't I say that the lead-in EQs would be 'local' and/or
'elsewhere', before the BIG ONE.
You say soooo much, most of it utter rubbish miller or have you forgotten
about your theory on how fishes gills work? or your theory on how the
conservation of energy can be broken by "waves crashing"? or perhaps your
little theory on my once being a "choir boy" with secrets to hide?
Still now another resident pretender is back you can explain these lies
and more for us eh miller?
"Just Waiting for the Cork to POP - right about now !!!" :-(
Yeah no point actually speaking in coherent, plain sentences when your
pseudo
mythical references can twisted so easily to mean anything like they
usually
can.
Please don't hate me, I really am not that 'Heartless' - I'm just a
'conduit' here.
3000+ people killed, some probably not even cold yet and you're in here
gloating about having "foretold" this tragedy, you're a disgusting and
fraudulent
leech miller.
I suppose you'll acknowledge the USGS as having foretold this too then
miller?
they've been telling of HUNDREDS of small tremors for months in that
region,
indicating they said that larger EQ's are possible anytime at no
notice.... does your
sick gloating make you feel special still miller?
So many lies you ran away from, you going to have the guts to face them
too miller
or is your little presence here just to boast and gloat about how you
foretold
a common geological event?
Speak up fraud, gills... choir boy.... physics.... waves... so much for
you to display your
ignorance and lies about ;0)
--
krib
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| User: "K Miller" |
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28 May 2006 03:06:40 AM |
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Although, the latest "Bowel Movement" (the recent EQ in the Tonga
region) is saying - "Not Just Yet"
Just A Thought.
:-?
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28 May 2006 11:28:14 PM |
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www.reuters.com/
Indonesia quake toll tops 5,000, aid trickles in
Monday 29 May 2006, 11:10pm EST
By Achmad Sukarsono
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, May 29 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of homeless
survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people in
Indonesia spent the night camped out in the rain as aid from across the
world arrived on Monday.
Many survivors who were injured or whose homes were destroyed by the
quake spent a rainy Sunday night in the open on the grounds of
hospitals and mosques or in makeshift shelters beside the rubble of
their houses.
Flows of foreign and domestic aid were increasing on Monday as the
official death toll from the 6.3 magnitude quake reached 5,115. The
tremor early on Saturday was centred just off the Indian Ocean coast
near Yogyakarta, the former Javanese royal capital.
Outside Yogyakarta's main hospital, the number of injured being treated
was much reduced from Sunday although the corridors were still packed
with patients.
"I am still traumatised, especially when it rained last night," said
Sartoyo, who had come to the hospital from a nearby village. "Everyone
was in panic ... and rushing inside the hospital.
"I heard help is on the way," he added. "We badly need tents, please
note that. Do not forsake us."
Government figures put the number of injured at 2,155, but the United
Nations children's fund (UNICEF) said 20,000 had been injured and more
than 100,000 made homeless.
Government and private aid agencies agree shelter in the form of tents
is a top aid priority, along with clean water supplies.
UNDER THE DEBRIS
An estimated 35,000 homes and buildings in and around Yogyakarta were
reduced to rubble by the quake, and by Monday morning chances were slim
that many people were still alive under the debris.
The international community has rallied to help, offering medical
relief teams, disaster experts and emergency supplies.
The government declared a three-month emergency and President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono moved his office to Yogyakarta.
After a cabinet meeting late on Sunday, Vice President Jusuf Kalla put
relief and rebuilding costs at around 1 trillion rupiah
($107 million) and said the government aimed to complete
"reconstruction and rehabilitation" within a year.
Kalla said the quake had destroyed power facilities worth 200 billion
rupiah and deprived tens of thousands of electricity.
In Yogyakarta on Monday a group from Peditan village were loading
dozens of friends and relatives onto a truck to head home.
Walji Mardiutomo, whose mother in her 70s was injured in the quake,
said: "Doctors said she can go home, her forehead has been stitched.
Fourteen people out of 600 from our villages died."
"Our village is flat to the ground. We will used makeshift tents to
stay there," she told Reuters.
RUMBLING MERAPI
Medical supplies and body bags arrived at the airport of Yogyakarta,
about 25 km (16 miles) from the coast. The airport was closed to
commercial traffic.
A vulcanologist said the quake had heightened activity at nearby Mount
Merapi, a volcano that experts believe may be about to erupt. Merapi
has been rumbling for weeks and sporadically emitting hot lava and
highly toxic hot gas.
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," Suseno, a field officer of
the Yogyakarta disaster task force, said.
Social Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah urged understanding. "I have already
told you that the area destroyed by the quake is very large ... We need
time.
Saturday's quake was one of the worst disasters in modern Indonesia's
history. The worst, the Dec. 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.
Yogyakarta is a prime tourist attraction, 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 suffered some damage, as did
nearby roads and houses, a Reuters witness said. Local media reported
that outer sections of Yogyakarta's centuries-old royal palaces had
also collapsed.
(Additional reporting by Diyan Jari, Tomi Soetjipto and Michelle
Nichols in Jakarta)
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