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Padang's police chief said voices and claps were heard from survivors buried in the Ambacang Hotel since Wednesday's 7 ... Padang police chief Col. Boy Rafli Amar told reporters, "So far rescuers have found nothing." ... Block after block of toppled hotels, hospitals, office buildings and schools had yet to be searched in Padang, a port city of 900,000 people. (Fox News)
SAF sends medical team to help quake victims in Padang Oct 4, 2009
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Two women found alive in quake's rubble (35) Oct 4, 2009
A rescue worker and dog from the Japanese Search and Rescue team carry out their searches at the Ambacang Hotel today in Padang, Indonesia ... AP Photo An Indonesian rescue team pulls out a survivor today who was trapped in a building since Wednesdays earthquake in Padang, Indonesia ... A rescue worker and dog from the Japanese Search and Rescue team carry out their searches at the Ambacang Hotel today in Padang, Indonesia. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Volunteers pour into Indonesia to find missing Oct 4, 2009
(10-03) 04:00 PDT Padang, Indonesia ... The wail of ambulances and the stench of decomposing bodies met volunteers from dozens of relief agencies Friday as they poured into the worst-hit area around the regional capital of Padang ... Contrasting that grim picture of grief and destruction, 19-year-old Virgo, a sophomore English major, was found alive under the rubble of her college in Padang, the Foreign Language School of Prayoga. (San Francisco Chronicle)
24 Aussies still missing after Sumatra quake Oct 4, 2009
Raw video: Australian surfer Brett McGrath shot this video in Padang just moments after his hotel had been wrecked by an earthquake. Authorities are still scrambling to locate 24 Australians who remain unaccounted for in the earthquake-devastated Indonesian city of Padang ... There were thought to be more than 100 Australians in Padang when the quake first hit on Wednesday, but that estimate has since been reduced. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
As his world is torn apart, surfer videos his own apocalypse Oct 4, 2009
Raw video: Australian surfer Brett McGrath shot this video in Padang just moments after his hotel had been wrecked by an earthquake. AS HIS building pancaked to the ground and split in half during the Padang earthquake, young Australian Brett McGrath not only staged a miraculous escape, he did what so many of his generation instinctively do: he grabbed a camera and videoed it all ... He won't be coming back to Padang. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Teams search in rubble for quake survivors Oct 4, 2009
TOM ALLARD IN PADANG ... 6-magnitude quake hit the Indonesian port city of Padang ... Padang is a popular staging post for surf trips to the Mentawai Islands, and many Australians come here. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Navy sends help to Indonesia Oct 4, 2009
Raw Video: Aussie surfer Brett McGrath shot this video of a desperate bid to rescue a girl trapped following the Padang earthquake ... The transport ship is expected to take 10 days to reach Padang in Indonesia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
New 6.1-magnitude quake rocks eastern Indonesia Oct 4, 2009
6-magnitude quake rocked Sumatra island in the west of the country, burying thousands and devastating the city of Padang and surrounding villages. A man sits on a motorcycle outside a collapsed shopping mall after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Search for 40 missing Aussies Oct 4, 2009
ADAM GARTRELL PADANG, INDONESIA ... An Australian search and rescue team worked through Padang and the surrounding areas, including Pariaman, the worst affected district, to assess the damage and rescue needs ... 6-magnitude quake toppled buildings and is believed to have killed more than 1100 people in Padang, home to nearly 1 million people on the coast of Sumatra on Wednesday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
AP News in Brief Oct 4, 2009
PADANG, Indonesia (AP) An earthquake survivor trapped in a collapsed hotel in western Indonesia sent a text message saying he and some others were alive, triggering a frantic rescue operation, but hopes faded Saturday as sniffer dogs failed to detect life. Padang's police chief said voices and claps were heard from survivors buried in the Ambacang Hotel since Wednesday's 7. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
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Sumatra quake 'levelled villages' Oct 4, 2009
Aid is now arriving in Indonesia, but hopes are fading of finding survivors in the worst-hit city of Padang ... But while rescue efforts are still concentrated in Padang, there are serious concerns that it may be too late to save most of those missing, presumed trapped beneath the city's collapsed concrete buildings ... At least 600 people are believed to be missing in villages north of Padang. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Whole areas flattened by quake Oct 4, 2009
Hope of finding any more survivors in the worst-hit city, Padang, is fading, but there are also reports of massive destruction in rural areas. Access roads have been badly damaged, if not destroyed, preventing emergency teams from reaching the injured. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
$300-400 mln needed for rehabilitation in quake-hit area Oct 4, 2009
People queue for petrol outside a gas station in Padang, Indonesia, on October 2, 2009. A major earthquake took place in Indonesia Wednesday has caused petrol shortage in Padang ... PADANG, Indonesia, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Death toll from the 7. (Xinhuanet, China)
People pray for victims killed in quake in Indonesia Oct 4, 2009
Two nuns pray for victims killed in the earthquake in Padang, in West Sumatra province of Indonesia, Oct. 4, 2009. West Sumatra province was hit by 7. (Xinhuanet, China)
* Hopes fading in search for survivors Oct 4, 2009
INDONESIA: Rescuers struggled to reach several people believed trapped in a collapsed hotel, but the head of a Japanese search team said there were no signs of life AP AND REUTERS, PADANG AND BALANTIAK, INDONESIA Sunday, Oct 04, 2009, Page 4. An Indonesian volunteer prays at Ambacang Hotel in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, yesterday after a powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia on Wednesday ... Padangs police chief said voices and claps were heard from survivors buried in the Ambacang... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
* Wedding turns to mourning as 30 killed in landslide Oct 4, 2009
The landslide buried Pulau Aie as well as three neighboring hamlets of Lubuk Laweh, Cumanak and Gunung Tiga about 75km northwest of the worst-hit city in the quake zone, Padang. Many houses had completely vanished, while the roofs of others could be seen poking out above the mud. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
* Aussie navy sends warship to assist earthquake victims Oct 4, 2009
The ship, headed for Padang, will take at least 10 days to reach Indonesia as it will conduct port calls to pick up more personnel, engineering equipment and humanitarian aid, the navy said. The first round of Australias aid to earthquake-ravaged West Sumatra arrived on Friday when a plane carrying Australian aid personnel and relief supplies touched down in Padang, the provincial capital ... A 36-person urban search and rescue team and about 20 Australian Defence Force medics and engineers... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Indonesian Quake Death Toll Likely To Double Oct 4, 2009 Miss Ireland upstages lady in red Oct 4, 2009 Indonesia appeals for aid as quake leaves whole villages buried Oct 3, 2009 Disaster Strikes Asia-Pacific - ChildFund International Responds in Indonesia and Philippines Oct 3, 2009 Over 3,000 rescuers, including soldiers, policemen, paramedics, fire fighters and volunteers, are striving to evacuate the victims of Wednesday's strong quake in West Sumatra province of Sumatra island.• Indonesia's quake toll raises to 451 Oct 3, 2009 Quake rescue underway in Indonesia Oct 3, 2009 The day the ground jumped up and down Oct 3, 2009 List Of Countries That Have Sent Aid To Indonesia Oct 3, 2009 Toll from Indonesian quakes grows to 1,100 Oct 3, 2009 Aid agencies stretched as teams battle disasters on two fronts Oct 3, 2009 Thousands missing in quake zone Oct 3, 2009 Hopes fade for hundreds lost in destroyed city Oct 3, 2009 Malaysia to focus on island wedding packages Oct 3, 2009 Toll from Indonesian quakes grows to 1,100 Oct 3, 2009 Indonesia's Earthquake: A Visit to Vanished Villages Oct 3, 2009 Surviving the Padang Quake: 'Disasters Are Following Us' Oct 3, 2009 Entire villages buried by Sumatra quakes Oct 3, 2009 Rush to find survivors as quake toll hits 1100 Oct 3, 2009 Indonesia: 3,000 People Still Trapped in Quake Rubble Oct 3, 2009 Indonesian disaster leaves whole villages buried Oct 3, 2009 Earthquake buried thousands in Indonesia Oct 3, 2009 Miss Ireland upstages lady in red Oct 3, 2009 Earthquakes Crumble Indonesia's Buildings as Construction Codes Ignored Oct 3, 2009 Cries for help after Indonesian quake Oct 3, 2009 Rescuers scramble to find Indonesia earthquake survivors Oct 3, 2009 * Jakarta appeals for aid, teenager pulled from ruin Oct 3, 2009 Full Story » Oct 3, 2009 Indonesian disaster leaves whole villages buried Oct 3, 2009 Indonesia quake survivor rescued after SMS to dad Oct 3, 2009 Hotel becomes grim focus of shocked city Oct 3, 2009 More to come, expert warns Oct 3, 2009 Rescuers head for Indonesia, UN waits for official food request Oct 3, 2009 Stranded without help in a devastated landscape Oct 2, 2009 Indonesia quake aid plea as time runs out for victims Oct 2, 2009 Fears for 109 Australians in quake zone Oct 2, 2009 Full Story Oct 2, 2009 Indonesia earthquake toll may exceed 1,000 as second temblor hits Oct 2, 2009 Malaysian student in hospital after house collapses on her Oct 2, 2009 UK rescue team flies to Indonesia Oct 2, 2009 Padang: city on a fault line Oct 2, 2009 Quotations of the day Oct 2, 2009 Race to save Sumatra quake victims Oct 2, 2009 * Grim scenes repeated all over devastated Padang Oct 2, 2009 EU offers immediate humanitarian aid for quake victims Oct 2, 2009 2 big quakes kill at least 200 in Indonesia Oct 2, 2009 Photo gallery Oct 2, 2009 Indonesia Tsunami and Quake Death Toll Hits 1,100 Oct 2, 2009 Foreign aid for Indonesia quake Oct 2, 2009 US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed' Oct 2, 2009 Woman freed from rubble of a school Oct 2, 2009 Indonesia earthquake toll rises as survivors await relief Oct 2, 2009 Hub’s Indonesian community mourns Oct 2, 2009 Al-Qaeda chemical expert 'killed' Oct 2, 2009 Quakes Rock Pacific Islands Oct 2, 2009 Indonesia disaster Oct 2, 2009 American Samoa Oct 2, 2009 2 big quakes kill at least 200 in Indonesia Oct 2, 2009 Thousand dead: Indonesia Oct 2, 2009 Officials hunt for missing surfers Oct 2, 2009 Families scour morgues for their loved ones Oct 2, 2009 Danger zone just a stone's throw away Oct 2, 2009 Indonesia quake toll could hit "thousands" -health minister Oct 1, 2009 Video: Indonesia rocked by earthquake Oct 1, 2009 Indonesian quake kills at least 200 Oct 1, 2009 Man trapped in 'pancaked' hotel Oct 1, 2009
PADANG, Indonesia (AP) -- The death toll from Indonesia's massive earthquake will likely double as officials on Saturday reached rural communities wiped out by landslides that buried more than 600 people under mountains of mud, most of them guests at a wedding celebration. Virtually nothing remained of four villages that had dotted the hillside of the Padang Pariman district in Indonesia's West Sumatra just three days ago, said officials and an Associated Press photographer who flew over the... (W-USA News, DC)
An SMS from Indonesia quake rubble a sign of hope Oct 4, 2009
A man walks past a vehicle partly crushed by a collapsed building in the Sumatran city of Padang ... PADANG, Indonesia (AFP) - In a cry for help from the wreckage of a hotel in this quake-hit city, police said they had received an SMS text message that raised hopes there were eight survivors under the rubble ... Padang police chief Boy Rafri Amar said the single SMS received late Friday meant it was likely people were still alive in the Ambacang Hotel, three days after a 7. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Aid for thousands of survivors of an earthquake in the Indonesia port of Padang began trickling in today, but rescue efforts were hampered by power blackouts and a lack of heavy equipment to shift masonry. Friday, 2 October 2009. (Yahoo News -- Beauty Pageants)
We need them to provide skilled rescuers with equipment," she said, also appealing for medics to treat badly injured victims, many with broken bones. A spokeswoman for the United Nations' World Food Programme said it had not yet received an official request for aid from Indonesia but expected it "would come very shortly," with food and heavy lifting gear ready on standby. Homeless survivors in the coastal city had spent two nights sleeping out in the open and were hungry, frightened and falling... (Channelnewsasia.com)
ChildFund Indonesia assessment teams, working with local partners and government officials in the Padang area of Sumatra, is aiming to set up 10 Child Centered Spaces with emphasis on promoting emotional and psychosocial well-being to affected children in the face of this major disaster. ChildFund Philippines staff, working closely with local partners and government officials in Metro Manila, is providing emergency relief assistance to families in affected program areas including basic... (AlertNet)
Local residents look for useful things in the rubble of a collapsed and burnt building in the Sumatran city of Padang, Indonesia, on Oct. 2, 2009 ... PADANG, Indonesia, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The number of fatalities of the 7. (Xinhuanet, China)
Rescuers carry a victim's body in the Sumatran city of Padang, Indonesia, on Oct. 2, 2009 ... Residents clean the rubble of a collapsed building in the Sumatran city of Padang, Indonesia, on Oct. 2, 2009 ... PADANG, Indonesia, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Over 3,000 rescuers, including soldiers, policemen, paramedics, fire fighters and volunteers, are striving to evacuate the victims of Wednesday's strong quake in West Sumatra province of Sumatra island. (Xinhuanet, China)
Tom Allard reports from Padang on death, destruction and lucky escapes. Nestled in densely forested hills, with spectacular volcanoes in the distance and pitched on a coast a short boat ride from spectacular tropical islands and surf breaks, Padang is the stuff of postcards ... While ethnic distinctiveness has been hemmed by modernity, Padang wears its Minangkabau heritage with pride. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
A Navy ship equipped with a hospital and a helicopter, which can deliver aid to more inaccessible areas, will sail for Padang in coming days. JAPAN: A team of 60 search and rescue workers and 23 medical personnel. (CBS News -- World)
(10-02) 04:00 PDT Padang, Indonesia ... Most of the confirmed deaths in Indonesia were reported in Padang, where more than 500 buildings were severely damaged or flattened. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Oxfam has also sent an emergency team from Jakarta to Padang to join staff from their local agencies in west Sumatra ... We already have emergency equipment positioned in Padang, so we are immediately distributing that, and we have more emergency supplies that can be deployed quickly from elsewhere in Indonesia," Oxfam's Sebastian Fesneau said. The Australian Red Cross has sent a small team to Samoa to provide specialist help to its Samoan affiliate in the areas of water, psycho-social support... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Indonesian rescue workers search through rubble and debris for any sign of survivors a day after a quake hit the city of Padang. PADANG: Rescue teams are clawing through rubble in a desperate search for thousands of people missing - including as many as 60 Australians - after two devastating earthquakes in Sumatra left at least 1100 dead ... Criticism mounted about the quality of construction in earthquake-prone Padang. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
family members identify dead relatives at a hospital in the Sumatran city of Padang yesterday ... PADANG: Hopes for hundreds of people trapped under collapsed buildings in Padang faded yesterday, as diplomats frantically tried to account for as many as 60 Australians missing in the region that was hit by the big earthquake on Wednesday ... Padang's Australian consulate warden, Rick Solomon, said it was unlikely there were large numbers of dead Australians, and the return of charter boats full of... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
On another note Dr Ng, who is MCA vice-president, conveyed her condolences to the peoples of Padang, Indonesia and South Pacific, who were hit by disasters which claimed the lives of thousands. I urge Malaysians travelling abroad to protect themselves through insurance coverage because we never know what will happen, she said. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
(10-02) 04:00 PDT Padang, Indonesia ... Most of the confirmed deaths in Indonesia were reported in Padang, where more than 500 buildings were severely damaged or flattened. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Learning that hundreds had died in the city of Padang, a two-hour drive away, Amin hugged his daughter in his arms. "Compared to many people, I am lucky," he says. (Time.com)
Surviving the Padang Quake: 'Disasters Are Following Us ... Indonesian search and rescue team members remove a body from debris in Padang after a major earthquake hit the region ... Throughout the month of Ramadan, residents of Padang had felt the small, swaying quakes. (Time.com)
PADANG, Indonesia (CNN) -- An area that now looks like a flattened mess of destruction was, just days ago, a group of three villages. Rescuers search for victims in a collapsed building in Padang, Indonesia, on Friday ... The West Sumatran capital, Padang, with about a million residents, is near the epicenter. (CNN -- World)
HOPES for hundreds of people trapped under collapsed buildings and homes in Padang are fading, as Australian officials frantically try to track down as many as 60 missing Australians in the earthquake-hit region ... But criticism is mounting about the quality of construction in Padang, perhaps the most earthquake-prone city in the world's most seismically active country ... Family members recognise dead relatives at a Padang hospital yesterday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
PADANG, Indonesia, Oct. 2, 2009 ... A survivor, Suci Ravika Wulan Sari, high-fives an Indonesian rescue worker as she was pulled out of a fallen building on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia, after being trapped there since Wednesday's earthquake ... Ratna Kurniasari Virgo, 19, an English major sophomore, was found alive after surviving two days under the rubble of her college in Padang, the Foreign Language School of Prayoga. (CBS News)
PADANG, Indonesia (AFP) - Whole villages in Indonesia's quake zone were found obliterated by landslides Saturday, as rescuers searched desperately for up to 4,000 people believed still trapped in the disaster area ... 6-magnitude earthquake widened as attention turned to the hundreds of villages in the hills outside the Padang, a devastated city of one million which was worst-hit ... In Padang, where hardly a single building has been left undamaged, rescuers were racing against time to haul any... (Yahoo! Asia News)
PADANG, Indonesia (CNN) -- As many as 4,000 people could be buried under the rubble in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Indonesia, United Nations officials said Saturday ... The West Sumatran capital, Padang, with about a million residents, is near the epicenter ... Telecommunications are difficult in the region, roads are cut off, and the hardest-hit area, including Padang, lacks power and other services, Holmes said. (CNN -- International)
Aid for thousands of survivors of an earthquake in the Indonesia port of Padang began trickling in today, but rescue efforts were hampered by power blackouts and a lack of heavy equipment to shift masonry. Friday, 2 October 2009. (Yahoo News -- Beauty Pageants)
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands may be trapped in collapsed structures in Indonesias Padang city following this weeks earthquake because builders didnt follow construction laws, one of the countrys top structural engineers said ... Thousands of people may be under fallen houses in Padang and at least 1,100 people were killed in the temblor, , the humanitarian chief, told a press briefing in New York yesterday ... In Air Pacah, a suburb about 10 minutes by car from Padangs city... (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Rescuers work to free 8 believed alive in debris of hotel in hard-hit Padang. Wong Maye-e / APIndonesian rescue team on Fridaypulled out a survivor who was trapped in a building since Wednesday's earthquake in Padang ... NBC's Ian Williams reports from Padang. (MSNBC -- International)
Indonesian soldiers and rescue workers search for earthquake victims trapped under a destroyed building in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on Thursday ... Rescue teams in Padang worked to pull survivors from collapsed buildings and clear roads blocked by landslides, as the death toll from Wednesday's earthquake topped 1,100 ... Bangkok, Thailand - Relief efforts continued Friday in the stricken Indonesian city of Padang, near the epicenter of Wednesday's 7. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
AP AND AFP , PADANG, INDONESIA Saturday, Oct 03, 2009, Page 1. Indonesian soldiers crawl under a collapsed building during a rescue attempt in the Sumatran city of Padang yesterday to search after a 7 ... In the city of Padang, emergency teams faced a third night of work to pull bodies from ruins that have claimed the lives of at least 1,100 people. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
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PADANG, Indonesia, Oct 3 (Reuters) - "Please help, I'm trapped, my position is in the house by the stairs." ... Like many of the Indonesian city of Padang's 900,000 residents, 30-year-old Chandra had grown used to the regular tremors that rattle the port city, which lies above the "Sunda Megathrust", one of the world's most active faultlines, along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" ... A boy carries a grocery bag past a house that was destroyed by an earthquake in downtown Padang, Indonesia's west... (AlertNet)
The Ambacang Hotel in downtown Padang has become a macabre meeting place. Every day since Wednesday's devastating earthquake, hundreds of locals have braved searing heat, swirling dust and the stench of rotting corpses to gather outside the ruined Dutch-era colonial hotel to watch authorities work through the rubble. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Professor Sieh said the current sequence near the western Sumatran city of Padang, including three quakes in the past four years, would build to a peak likely to be felt in the first half of the century ... Hopes for hundreds of people trapped under collapsed buildings in Padang. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
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PADANG: Villagers in West Sumatra worst hit by a huge earthquake spent a terrifying night searching for survivors, hindered by a complete lack of assistance from authorities ... (Right) Survivors survey the wreckage of their homes in Padang ... Rescuers were yet to arrive, (left) waiting for help in a Padang hospital. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
In the city of Padang, which was devastated by Wednesday's 7 ... Scene: Padang residents face night in rubble ... But many in the villages outside Padang, amidst scenic mist-shrouded hills, said they had not yet received any help. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
A man runs past a burning house in Padang in the aftermath of the earthquake ... DFAT said the damaged communications network was hampering efforts to contact nine of 13 Australians known to be in the Padang area of Sumatra, the epicentre of Wednesdays earthquake ... "Many of them are actually out surfing at the moment, Padang is near the Mentawai islands, which is one of the worlds premier surf spots," Mr Allard said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
PADANG, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescue workers pulled victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that a government official said killed at least 777 people ... 6-magnitude earthquake, which originated in the sea off Sumatra island, appeared to have been borne by the city of Padang, where a government official said most the deaths occured ... More than 500 buildings including hotels, schools, hospitals and a mall were destroyed or damaged in... (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
PADANG, Indonesia Rescue workers pulled victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that a government official said killed at least 777 people ... 6-magnitude earthquake, which originated in the sea off Sumatra island, appeared to have been borne by the city of Padang, where a government official said most the deaths occured ... More than 500 buildings including hotels, schools, hospitals and a mall were destroyed or damaged in Padang. (Honolulu Advertiser)
PETALING JAYA: A 23-year-old Malaysian student, identified only as Felicia Francis, was rushed to a hospital in Padang with serious spinal injuries after her house collapsed on her. Malaysian student leader Murtaza Mohamad Mustaffa at Universitas Andalas confirmed this in an SMS to The Star while waiting for Malaysian embassy representatives at the university s medical faculty in downtown Padang yesterday afternoon ... Innocent victim: Twoyear- old Hari Haratama resting inside a tent after... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
The plane to the city of Padang is also carrying UK aid agency staff and rescue equipment including plastic sheeting, medical and water purifying equipment ... International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said: "Thousands of people are still trapped under the rubble in Padang and their hopes of survival decrease the longer they remain. Safe drinking water may run out soon Inel RosnelliAid worker "The UK's fire and rescue experts will help provide a lifeline ... " Meanwhile, 10... (BBC News -- UK)
It was the latest of several recent earthquakes to affect Padang. Padang is one of Indonesia's major cities, the bustling capital of West Sumatra province ... Strong earthquakes with epicentres near Padang killed dozens of people in March 2007, and the city was considered to have become more vulnerable after the tsunami that devastated Aceh province in northern Sumatra in 2004. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
"We heard some voices of people under the rubble, but as you can see the damage is making it very difficult to extricate them." - Gagah Prakosa, a spokesman of a team of rescuers clearing debris in earthquake-stricken Padang in western Indonesia. Rescuers later pulled a teenager alive from her collapsed college in another part of town some 40 hours after the temblor killed at least 715 people and left thousands more missing. (Anchorage Daily News)
The quake struck close to the city of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, bringing scores of buildings crashing to the ground ... Karishma Vaswani, BBC News, Padang ... Part of Padang's main hospital also collapsed and a makeshift open air morgue has been set up to take the growing number of yellow body bags. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Grim scenes repeated all over devastated Padang. AFP, PADANG, Indonesia Friday, Oct 02, 2009, Page 5 ... Two women sit amongst the rubble of a building in the quake-flattened city of Padang, Indonesia, yesterday. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
A rapid response team from the commission's humanitarian aid department office of Jakarta has been sent to Padang, the epicenter, to assess needs, said the commission on Thursday ... 6-magnitude earthquake that struck close to the city of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province in Indonesia, another powerful earthquake hit Sumatra early Thursday morning. (Xinhuanet, China)
The temblor started fires, severed roads and cut off power and communications to Padang, a coastal city of 900,000 on the island of Sumatra ... In Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, the shaking was so intense that people crouched or sat on the street to avoid falling ... It hit about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Padang at a depth of just under 20 miles (24 kilometers). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper (INDONESIA DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) Students walk out from a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Padang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island September 30, 2009 ... 6 magnitude 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 ... REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) QUALITY FROM SOURCE A man sits near injured residents lying in... (AlertNet)
The Indonesian city of Padang is still recovering from two , one of which flattened a school where 30 children are still missing. The first earthquake -- registering a massive 7. (ABC News)
Rescue teams dug on Friday through the rubble of buildings shattered by an earthquake in the Indonesian port of Padang for people feared trapped and the United Nations said more than 1,000 had been killed ... - Five officials dispatched to Padang to assist any Australians caught up in the tragedy and assess humanitarian assistance needs ... A German woman named Bighy and her dog work with Indonesia's SAR Nasional rescue team as they look for more victims in the collapsed Ambacang Hotel in... (AlertNet)
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PADANG, Indonesia, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled a woman alive from the wreckage of a school on Friday more than 40 hours after she was trapped when a powerful earthquake devastated the Indonesian city of Padang ... An injured woman receives medical treatment in a makeshift treatment area at the M Djamil hospital in Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra province October 2, 2009. (AlertNet)
Motorcycles drive past a damaged shopping complex in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Thursday ... A second Indonesian earthquake struck near the city of Padang Thursday as the death toll rose to at least 529 ... A second tremor early Thursday triggered further panic in Padang, the stricken city near the epicenter, though without causing further damage. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
I have aunts and uncles in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, said Munassarni Bantacut, 51 ... Bantacut was born in Padang, and grew up in nearby Medan, where most of her immediate family still lives ... My brother s friends are [in Padang], she said. (Boston Globe)
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A womanalive--- is pulled from the rubble of a hotel in Padang, Indonesia ... 6-magnitude earthquake, which originated in the sea off Sumatra Island, appeared to have been borne by Padang ... More than 500 buildings including hotels, schools, hospitals and a mall were destroyed or damaged in Padang. (National Geographic)
Gagah Prakosa, a spokesman of a team of rescuers clearing debris in earthquake-stricken Padang in western Indonesia ... girls look on as rescuers dig through the rubbles of a collapsed building to search for earthquake victims in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 ... earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
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The temblor started fires, severed roads and cut off power and communications to Padang, a coastal city of 900,000 on the island of Sumatra ... In Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, the shaking was so intense that people crouched or sat on the street to avoid falling ... It hit about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Padang at a depth of just under 20 miles (24 kilometers). (San Francisco Chronicle)
6-magnitude quake toppled buildings and led to fires in Padang, home to nearly a million people on the coast of Sumatra, leaving the city largely without power and communications ... Padang, which lies between the Indian Ocean and the Bukit Barisan mountains, was a chaotic mass of traffic jams and rubble set against the constant din of sirens as ambulances tried to negotiate the gridlock ... Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who returned from the United States and flew to Padang,... (iAfrica.com)
The Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, said 13 Australians were known to have been in or near the city of Padang, which was hit hard by two earthquakes ... PADANG: A second big earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra ... PADANG: Villagers in West Sumatra worst hit by a huge earthquake spent a. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
PADANG: In the distraught and disoriented city, Padang's anguish can be most keenly felt across the road from the Doctor M. Djamil Hospital ... The mall, the biggest in Padang, collapsed in the earthquake ... PADANG: A second big earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
PADANG: A second big earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra ... PADANG: Villagers in West Sumatra worst hit by a huge earthquake spent a. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Schools, hospitals, hotels collapse in quake-prone Padang ... PADANG, Indonesia, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands ... "We need aid as soon as possible. We need food and medicine. Our houses have collapsed," said Siti, a resident of Padang, capital of West Sumatra province. (AlertNet)
Residents stand near the bodies of earthquake victims at a hospital in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island October 1, 2009. The 7. (AlertNet)
Priyadi Kardono, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency, says the deaths were counted in the coastal Sumatran city of Padang, following Wednesday's 7 ... Kardono said Thursday that about 500 buildings collapsed in Padang - a sprawling regional capital of 900,000 people. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
PADANG, Indonesia (CNN) -- I am at a hotel that collapsed ... People search the rubble of a collapsed shop in Padang. (CNN -- International)
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