News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 month ago
Expect a far more powerful earthquake than last week's magnitude 7.6 temblor to hit the devastated Indonesian city of Padang and surrounding areas in the next few decades. That's the word from a team of leading seismologists who said the worst is yet...
News Source: The Star
| about 1 month ago
Yogi Affendi was a picture of curiosity as he walked in and out of classrooms in his earthquake-damaged school. “The pillar at that end is shaking,” said the 12-year-old as he surveyed the damage. The first storey of his school has collapsed and...
News Source: The Scotsman
| about 1 month ago
Gagah Prakoso, a spokesman for the Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency. "So we will speed up our search to find bodies and clean up the ruins with bulldozers." The death toll from last Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Sumatra island is...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
Relief workers say there is little chance of finding anyone alive in the rubble of buildings five days after a 7.6 magnitude quake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing possibly thousands. Markets reopened and some children attended school in...
News Source: Pacific Daily News
| about 1 month ago
A military plane stuffed with manpower and medical supplies was scheduled to leave Guam yesterday for an area of Indonesia ravaged by a powerful earthquake last week. Inside the plane was a U.S...Joe Hayslett yesterday while preparing to depart.
News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| about 1 month ago
Helicopters dropped instant noodles and other aid to cutoff hillside communities that were without food for five days, as rescue workers gave up their search Monday for survivors from last week's massive Indonesian earthquake. When all the bodies...