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WORLD / Asia-Pacific
Powerful aftershocks terrorize Indonesia
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-14 21:00
PADANG, Indonesia - Powerful earthquakes terrorized Indonesia for a third
day Friday as thousands of people slept outside in the hills, and
seismologists warned that the worst may be yet to come.
An Indonesian woman weeps outside her house that was destroyed by an
earthquake in Lais, Bengkulu province, on Sumatra island, Indonesia,
Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. [AP]
The massive 8.4-magnitude quake that shook Southeast Asia on Wednesday
has been followed by dozens of strong aftershocks that have killed at
least 13 people, damaged hundreds of homes and churned up a 10-foot-high
tsunami.
On Friday, the US Geological Survey measured one aftershock jolting the
area at magnitude 6.4.
Experts have been predicting a repeat of the massive earthquake that
triggered the 2004 Asian tsunami, which killed more than 230,000 people
in a dozen Indian Ocean nations. Kerry Sieh of the California Institute
of Technology, who has spent decades studying the fault line in the area,
said these temblors could be leading up to the big one.
"No one can say whether it will be in 30 seconds or 30 years," Sieh said.
"But what happened the other day, I think is quite possibly a sequence of
smaller earthquakes leading up to the bigger one."
The wall of water that slammed into several fishing villages along
Sumatra island's coast Wednesday swept away nearly a dozen houses, but
overall damage was "minimal," Indonesian President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono said after an Air Force aerial survey.
A nine-member UN assessment team reached the same conclusion after
visiting the area, saying that a major international relief operation was
not required, John Holmes, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, said in
a statement from New York.
Many people said a public awareness campaign launched after the 2004
tsunami paid off, including warnings issued over mosque speakers and
training provided by local officials on how to escape a disaster.
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