440 killed in Java quake
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yeah.....java indonesia ............as usual always have earthquakes......volcano eruptions.......look at the tectonic plates sitted on their country.......almost all their countries are plagued with quakes.....not surprised........
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Yet they still want to construct nuke power station. Crazy!
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At least 200 killed, many injured after strong quake rocks Java
27 May 2006 1049 hrs (SST) 0249 hrs (GMT)
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia : At least 200 people were killed and thousands injured when a strong earthquake rocked the densely-populated southern coast of Indonesia's Central Java on Saturday, hospitals said.
Hospital officials in the densely-populated city of Yogyakarta warned that the number would inevitably rise as more dead were found in the wreckage of collapsed buildings.
"We expect there will be more," Dwi Winarno, an official at the state-run Sardjito hospital Yogyakarta, around 400 kilometres east of Jakarta, told AFP.
The 6.2-magnitude quake struck early in the morning near to simmering Mount Merapi, but seismologists said the quake would not increase the likelihood of the volcano erupting.
Many houses and buildings collapsed and tremors were felt in various cities as well as on the north coast of the island.
Hundreds of people were rushed to hospital.
The quake also forced the closure of Adisucipto airport in Yogyakarta, Detikcom news portal said.
The airport was badly damaged, with the roof of an airport section collapsing and at least one person trapped, Metro TV reported.
It showed workers trying to release a person trapped in the rubble of the building.
It was not known if the person was still alive.
Flights have been diverted to the nearby city of Solo.
Meteorologists said the quake measured 5.9 on the Richter scale, but both US and Hong Kong monitors registered it at 6.2.
Yogyakarta province police chief Bambang Hari Sampurnojati told radio that the earthquake was reportedly followed by tidal waves, striking panic in a nation that was one of the worst hit by the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami.
The police chief did not give further details but the radio report said thousands of people fled coastal areas for higher ground.
"We panicked when we heard that there was a tsunami. We were ready to flee," said Yogyakarta resident Clemon Cilik told the state Antara news agency.
The quake hit just before 6am (2300 GMT Friday) around 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Yogyakarta.
An official on duty at the Panti Rapih general hospital in Yogyakarta said that "hundreds of people are being admitted and they continue to come."
He said that most had cuts and broken bones and came from areas south of the city such as Bantul and Gunungkidul.
Witnesses told Elshinta radio that hundreds of houses partially or entirely collapsed in the Bantul and Kulonprogo districts south and southwest of Yogyakarta.
A worker at the Muhammadiyah hospital said about 100 were being treated there, including some outside. "There are fatalities but we don't know how many," the staffer told AFP.
Temblors were felt in various cities in Central and East Java, including on the northern coast of Central Java and as far as Kediri to the east.
Damage was hampering the rescue effort, Sampurnojati said, with police headquarters in the city cut due to a blackout following the quake.
"Electricity is out and communication is difficult," he told ElShinta.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.
An official at the meteorological office said the quake was not related to the Mount Merapi volcano, which has been rumbling in recent weeks.
Thousands of people living on the slopes of Mount Merapi have been evacuated after authorities declared code red for the volcano.
Scientists have warned that although the magma flow that forms a dome at the Merapi peak appears to be weakening, the structure may collapse and spew out millions of tonnes of volcanic rock and lava. - AFP/ch -
latest report: 2517 dead, at least
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god bless them
but can not stand sina ppl 's attitude -
as of now, at least 2,275 perished in this disaster
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nw incread to 3k+ liaoOriginally posted by FireIce:as of now, at least 2,275 perished in this disaster -
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First World Government not intend to do something to help Indonesia?
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got send ppl over to help mahOriginally posted by Manager433:First World Government not intend to do something to help Indonesia?
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indonesia always give me surprise
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They just send a group of ppl and 3 CH-47 to Thailand to help in the floods, i heard ... Then what's left to send??Originally posted by FireIce:got send ppl over to help mah
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tis one ish must ban~Originally posted by manlovedog:FVCKING DESEVRED IT. THOSE MATs! -
i think climbing to over 3k as reported by CNN
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last heard, it's at least 3,700 dead.