Gempa bumi bermagnitud 7.7 gegar Indonesia
2010/10/26
JAKARTA: Gempa bumi kuat pada magnitud 7.7 menggegarkan pantai barat Indonesia, semalam dan menyebabkan pembentukan ombak di bahagian dalamnya, kata ahli seismologi.
Menurut laporan sekumpulan pelancong Australia, amaran tsunami dikeluarkan, tetapi ia ditarik balik dan tiada mangsa yang dilaporkan terbunuh berikutan kejadian itu.
Mereka berkata, bot yang dinaiki musnah akibat ombak yang diibaratkan “dinding air putih” yang menghempas ke kawasan pesisir pantai.
Jabatan Kaji selidik Geologikal Amerika Syarikat (USGS), berkata Gempa dasar laut yang melanda di wilayah Kepulauan Mentawai dikesan pada jam 9.42 malam pada kedalaman 20.6 kilometer. - AFP
26 October 2010 Last updated at 17:27 GMT
Indonesia tsunami deaths increase after Sumatra quake
More than 100 people have been killed and many are missing after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Scores of houses were destroyed by waves after the 7.7 magnitude quake, which struck 20km (13 miles) under the ocean floor near the Mentawai islands.
Ten villages on the islands were swept away by the tsunami, a disaster official told the AFP news agency.
Damage and rough weather are delaying efforts to reach the affected area.
Hendri Dori Satoko, a lawmaker in the Mentawai islands, told Metro TV: "Our latest data from crisis centre showed that 108 people have been killed and 502 are still missing."
He said some of the missing could have fled to higher ground and were afraid to return to their homes.
Health ministry officials said 113 bodies had been recovered in the area so far, the Associated Press news agency reported.
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