Indonesia quake toll passes 3,000

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La xowla wala quwata illabillah,,,,

 

More than 3,000 people have been killed and thousands more injured by a strong earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java, officials have said.

The quake, measuring 6.2, flattened buildings in a densely-populated area south of the city of Yogyakarta, near the southern coast of Java.

 

Witnesses said people fled as their homes collapsed around them, after the quake struck early in the morning.

 

Electricity and communications across the city were also down, police said.

 

At least 2,900 people have been injured, and many more are still thought to be trapped under rubble and collapsed buildings.

 

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on rescuers to work around the clock, as he visited the area with a team of Cabinet ministers on Saturday.

 

He has also ordered the military to help evacuate victims.

 

Yogyakarta's airport was closed. Local media said the runway had cracked and part of a roof had caved in.

 

 

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Yogyakarta is near the Mount Merapi volcano, which threatened to erupt earlier this month, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated.

 

Experts were divided over whether the quake would affect Merapi, but there are reports of heightened activity at the volcano. There was an eruption soon after the quake which sent debris some 3.5km (2 miles) down its western side.

 

Officials said that although the area affected was coastal there was no tsunami resulting from the quake.

 

The quake hit at 0554 local time (2253 GMT Friday), around 25km (15 miles) south of the city of Yogyakarta, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

 

Yogyakarta, Indonesia's ancient royal capital and one of its biggest cities, is about 440km (275 miles) south-east of the capital, Jakarta.

 

"The earthquake was felt to be massive - larger than the locals here say they've felt in their lives," said Brook Weisman-Ross, regional disaster co-ordinator for Plan International children's charity in Java.

 

"I was shaken from my bed... As furniture was falling, concrete chunks started falling from my hotel room as people were running out in panic in their bedclothes," he told the BBC.

 

He said there was extensive damage across the city and that many of the smaller, older houses had collapsed.

 

But a wide swathe south of the city, in the Bantul and Kulonprogo regions, appears to be the worst hit.

 

The BBC's Orlando Guzman in Yogyakarta says every other house on the main road south of the city is either flattened or seriously damaged.

 

Another correspondent in the area, Andrew Harding, says there are a number of dead bodies by the side of the road.

 

Aftershocks

 

Local radio said there were not enough doctors to cope with the numbers of injured.

 

People were ferried to hospital in lorries and buses, or made the journey on foot, because of a shortage of ambulances.

 

Aftershocks have forced medical staff to move injured patients outside.

 

Orlando Guzman says people here, who have been living in fear of a volcanic eruption for weeks, are very much still on edge. Many are still afraid to go back to their houses.

 

Mosques, churches and hospitals have been housing people who have fled their homes.

 

"We're still afraid. We don't want to go home," said Hendra, one of hundreds of people who took refuge at Yogyakarta's Marganingsih Catholic Church.

 

Indonesia is in a zone known as the Pacific "ring of fire", which is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity.

 

In December 2004, a huge earthquake off Indonesia's coast killed hundreds of thousands of people across the Indian Ocean by triggering a tsunami.

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May allah ease their/our suffering, ameen,,

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Can you ever feel secure that He who is in heaven will not cause the earth to swallow you up when, lo and behold, it begins to quake?

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La ilaha illalah. Will their suffering ever end?

[-Serenity-]

Ilaahayow u sahal. .

[Animal Farm]

i'm hoping they'll get through this disaster - we send our prayers out to them.

[FatB]

the death toll now stands at 5000

[-Lily-]

These people surely are being tested severely.

[Allamagan]

La Xowla Wala quwata Illaa Billaah....

 

These people surely are being tested severely.

Agree. No one suffered like what they have been thru.

 

Need a quiet reflective silence!

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Yet another earthquake hits Indonesia

 

Already savaged and rendered homeless by the first quake, panic once again returned to the survivors of Saturday's Indonesian earthquake after a temblor, which measured around 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked the easternmost province of Papua at 0328 GMT today.

 

An official at the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency in Jayapura said the quake was felt strongly in the town of Wamena in the mountainous Jayawijaya district, 78 kilometers (48 miles) west of the epicenter. So far there have been no reports of damage or injuries, but people ran out of their offices and houses said a police officer in Wamena.

 

The quake was also felt in Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, which is about 3,300 kilometers (2,050 miles) from Bantul, the area worst hit by Saturday's powerful magnitude-6.3 earthquake that killed more than 5,400 people.

 

Earlier today Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer said that they would be stepping up their aid effort by sending more than 80 disaster experts and medical personnel to the worst hit areas around Yogyakarta.

 

Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific 'Ring of Fire', which has 76 volcanoes, the largest number in the world.

 

GN

[Intel]

i feel for these poor people wallahi

one tragedy after an other, may Allah have mercy upon them.

[Valenteenah.]

^ Amiin. They've been hit really hard.

 

 

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