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WEST SUMATRA QUAKE'S DEATH TOLL REACHES 805
Padang, West Sumatra, Oct. 10 (ANTARA) - The death toll from the recent powerful earthquake that devastated West Sumatra province rose to 805 on Friday evening.
Most of the fatalities occurred in Padang City and Padang Pariaman district where the deaths numbered 312 and 341 respectively, according to official data obtained from the West Sumatra Natural Disaster Mitigation Task Force at 10 pm local time on Friday.
Other fatalities were found in Pariaman City (37 people), Pesisir Selatan District (9), Solok (3), Agam District (80), and West Pasaman District (3).
The United Nations, however, said the death toll from the 7.6 quake was at least 1,100.
The magnitude 7.6 quake also injured 891 people seriously and 1,365 others lightly. Some 241 people were still missing.
The quake had also forced hundreds of people to flee their homes.
The quake which was centered 78 km northwest of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, at a depth of 71 km in the seabed also caused major damage to 133,739 houses, moderate damage to 60,831 houses and minor damage to 65,492 houses.
The quake was felt across Sumatra, including in Medan, Bengkulu, Jambi, and Riau as well as in Malaysia and Singapore.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
In December 2004, a 8.9-magnitude earthquake along the same fault line caused a tsunami in Aceh that killed more than 200,000 people and made around one million people homeless.
A geologist from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, said West Sumatra residents now face the grim
prospect of a stronger earthquake at 8.8 on the Richter scale as pressure from a series of earthquakes that occurred off Sumatra's west coast over the past few years had created fault lines around Padang, West Sumatra's provincial capital. ***3***
(F001/A/HAJM/B003)
2. 12:05.
Most of the fatalities occurred in Padang City and Padang Pariaman district where the deaths numbered 312 and 341 respectively, according to official data obtained from the West Sumatra Natural Disaster Mitigation Task Force at 10 pm local time on Friday.
Other fatalities were found in Pariaman City (37 people), Pesisir Selatan District (9), Solok (3), Agam District (80), and West Pasaman District (3).
The United Nations, however, said the death toll from the 7.6 quake was at least 1,100.
The magnitude 7.6 quake also injured 891 people seriously and 1,365 others lightly. Some 241 people were still missing.
The quake had also forced hundreds of people to flee their homes.
The quake which was centered 78 km northwest of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province, at a depth of 71 km in the seabed also caused major damage to 133,739 houses, moderate damage to 60,831 houses and minor damage to 65,492 houses.
The quake was felt across Sumatra, including in Medan, Bengkulu, Jambi, and Riau as well as in Malaysia and Singapore.
Indonesia is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
In December 2004, a 8.9-magnitude earthquake along the same fault line caused a tsunami in Aceh that killed more than 200,000 people and made around one million people homeless.
A geologist from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, said West Sumatra residents now face the grim
prospect of a stronger earthquake at 8.8 on the Richter scale as pressure from a series of earthquakes that occurred off Sumatra's west coast over the past few years had created fault lines around Padang, West Sumatra's provincial capital. ***3***
(F001/A/HAJM/B003)
2. 12:05.
