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Supervisors promote tsunami relief efforts
Tafuna :: American Samoa | about 1 month ago
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Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas asked his colleagues to "act out of the best sense of who we are and help those in need." Los Angeles County is home to nearly 13,000 Samoans, more than any county in the nation. Under the unanimously approved motion co-authored...
Tags: tsunami, earthquake, Seattle Seahawks, relief efforts
Mudslide submerges 40 of marriage party
Whenever there is a natural disaster, there are deaths because they happen all of a sudden with little or no notice. That is what happened in the West Sumatran earthquake in Indonesia that has claimed over 1000 lives – the saddest part is the submerging...
Tags: earthquake, typhoon, tsunami
Story Behind the Earthquake Without Wedding Party Guest Invite
Pariaman - Intention heart back briefly from overseas in Jakarta to conduct a wedding. But what can I say, the wedding was held there just are not invited guests who came. It's all because of the earthquake. This bit of the story behind the earthquake...
Tags: Earthquake, indonesia, Story Behind the Earthquake, jakarta
Death Toll in Indonesia Surmounting Quickly
Natural disasters have wrecked absolute havoc on the Asian continent the past few weeks and as rescue workers furiously search for people, the death toll seems to be constantly climbing. The initial figures that were released by the the Indonesia...
Tags: earthquake, disaster, allnews, Indonesia, iran, united states, iraq, north korea, china, russia, natural disasters, panic, death, news, government, politics
Earthquake hits Sumatra again -1100 casualties reported
Indonesia seems to be the epitome of earthquakes. The nation has still not reeled from their earlier jolt that killed more than 200 people and now a 6.8 magnitude quake hit southern Sumatra on Thursday (0152 GMT). The earlier Pacific Tsunami warning...
Tags: Indonesia, Thursday, Earthquake, casualties
Medical students seek shelter on higher ground
Petaling Jaya :: Malaysia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The 300 medical students at Universitas Andalas in Padang, West Sumatra, sought shelter at a safer zone on higher ground when the earthquake struck. Fourth-year student Che Syaza Mohd Fadzil, 25, said the students quickly assembled at the medical faculty...
Tags: earthquake, sumatra, Padang, higher ground, Malaysian Student Department
800 barred from homes after tremors
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Some 800 residents were barred from entering their homes after cracks were found on at least four walls of their 19-floor hospital quarters at Jalan Raja Muda Aziz. Most of the residents who felt the 10-second tremors yesterday, recalled grabbing their...
Tags: earthquake, children
Indonesia quake kills 75, thousands trapped: official
A powerful earthquake struck off the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, killing at least 75 people and trapping thousands under rubble, officials said. The death toll was likely to rise further as many buildings, including hotels,...
Tags: indonesia, earthquake, fields, damage, sumatra, natural, oil, children
At Least 21 Dead in Earthquake in Indonesia
Another earthquake strikes--this time the 7.6 magnitude quake, hit 33 miles (53 kilometers) from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra. Padang is home to more than 800,000 people. At least 21 people have been reported dead and hundreds more are injured....
Tags: earthquake, indonesia earthquake, u.s. geological survey, earthquake magnitude
Tsunami in Samoa kills over 100
The Samoa islands located midway between New Zealand and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean have been devastated by a Tsunami with complete villages wiped out. An earthquake of 8.2 on the Richter scale struck the area. People have clambered up on hills...
Tags: tsunami, earthquake, global warming
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