Budak budak kat mana pon dalam dunia yg sedang menghadapi bencana pasti akan tau macam mana nak have fun and enjoy them self. walaupon kediaman dah hancur......their smile is still there.
Bumi terbelah di Padang perjalanan masuk dari kampung ke kampung hari ini aku melihat banyak jalanraya retak dan membelah bumi. Ada yang kecil dan juga ada yg besar. Aftershocks is making it wider.......
Orang kg bersatu dan bekerja keras membina kembali jambatan yang runtuh kesan gempa bumi
Lembaga Listrik bekerja untuk mengembalikan bekalan letrik .....Namun kota padang masih lagi bergelap
Bekalan air yang masih terputus hingga hari ini.......sungai menjadi Pool.
The search is still ongoing
This used to be 3 stories building. 2 floors down
Hari ini juga aku sempat menyinggah di kampung nelayan di tepi laut sewaktu pulang dari wilayah Pariaman.Mereka masih lagi takut untuk kelaut kesan trauma.dalam sehari hanya ada beberapa bot kecil sahaja yg turun kelaut.itupon sekadar untuk jarak dekat.Ini menyebabkan harga hasil laut meningkat dan bekalan berkurangan. Bekalan untuk mangsa gempa masih lagi tidak kesampaian di beberapa kawasan.hari yang hujan tidak menentu dan jugak kesan tanah runtuh menykarkan lagi bantuan dihantar.logistic support pon masih lagi lemah.apa yang aku nampak kat sini lah.banyak lagi ruang dan peluang yang ada untuk diperbaiki dan jugak untuk di pelajari.
* Villages destroyed by landslides, remote areas cut off
* Thousands still feared trapped under rubble
* Rescuers struggle to reach survivors in collapsed hotel
* Aid arrives from 14 countries
By Crack Pallinggi BALANTIAK, Indonesia, Oct 3 (Reuters) -
Rescue teams pushed deeper into Indonesia's earthquake-hit Sumatra on Saturday, finding entire villages obliterated by landslides and survivors desperate for aid three days after the tremor. In the city of Padang rescuers were still combing through collapsed buildings for thousands of people feared buried beneath the wreckage. The colossal damage that destroyed buildings and roads was hampering the aid effort. In remoter areas outside Padang the full scale of the disaster was only starting to become clear, with villages wiped out and survivors drinking coconut water after their drinking sources were contaminated.
"In my village, 75 people were buried. There are about 300 people missing from this whole area. We need tents and excavators to get the bodies but the roads are cut off," said Ogi Martapela, 28, who said his older brother died in the landslide. Another resident said it was too late for aid. "Don't bother trying to bring aid up there," said Afiwardi, who pointed past a landslide that cut off a road. "Everyone is dead." Some villagers used simple wooden hoes in what appeared to be a fruitless attempt to reach bodies beneath the earth.
The aid effort appeared to be cranking up on Saturday, but it was yet to reach many areas. "We have not received a thing. We need food, clothes, blankets, milk. It seems like the government has forgotten about us," said Siti Armaini, sitting outside her collapsed home in Pariaman, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Padang and nearer to the quake's epicentre. The mayor of the badly hit district of Padang Pariaman said by telephone that heavy digging machinery was starting to reach some areas hit by landslides, but that survivors desperately needed tents and blankets after losing their homes. "We are devastated.
Eighty percent of houses have caved in, roads are split and cracked," said mayor Muslim Kasim. Testos, an Indonesian Red Cross worker at an aid station in central Padang, said they now had around half what was needed. "We also need drinking water and clothes because many peoples clothes were burnt in fires," he said.
"We also need medicines to stop infection." HOTEL SEARCH In Padang, eight people were believed to be trapped in the ruins of the Dutch-colonial era Ambacang Hotel, once a prominent landmark in this university town of 900,000 famous across Indonesia for its spicy cuisine and buildings with dramatic curved roofs, influenced by the ethnic Minang group. International rescue teams, including sniffer dogs from Japan and an orange-clad Swiss team, were helping in the effort.
"We think there are eight people alive in there. One sent an SMS to a relative in a village, who got the text at 3 p.m. yesterday," said Arkamelvi Karmani, an Indonesian army officer involved in the rescue operation at the site of the hotel. The message called for help and implored rescuers: "Be careful that the excavator doesn't cause the building to collapse on us." A seminar organised by an insurance company was taking place there when the 7.6 magnitude quake hit on Wednesday.
The quake, from one of the world's most active seismic fault lines along the Pacific "Ring of Fire", struck with a force that shook buildings hundreds of kms away in Singapore and Malaysia. MASKS, SNIFFER DOGS The United Nations estimated more than 1,000 had been killed in and around Padang. Indonesia's disaster management agency put the toll of confirmed dead and missing so far at 809. Rescue teams, many wearing masks to cover the stench of bodies as they worked in the tropical heat, fanned out from Padang to some of the worst-hit surrounding areas. On the route to Pariaman devastation became steadily worse.
Roofs of collapsed houses were flush to the ground, while families sheltered in makeshift tents made of blankets next to the road, which had giant cracks in places. Asked about rescue efforts in Pariaman, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said bluntly it was now about retrieving bodies. "We can be sure that they are dead. So now we are waiting for burials," he said in footage shown on Metro TV. But later he said that Indonesia most needed foreign help in the form of funds and reconstruction rather than rescuers now.
Kalla said that the disaster was nothing like the situation in 2004, when a 9.15 magnitude quake, with its epicentre roughly 600 km northwest of Padang, caused the Indian Ocean tsunami which killed more than 170,000 people in Aceh province alone, displacing hundreds of thousands. Indonesia's health minister Siti Fadillah Supari predicted on Friday the number killed would be in the low thousands. "I predict the number will not reach 4,000," she was quoted as saying by news website detik.com.
The three provinces affected by Wednesday's disaster, and a second quake inland on Thursday, are major producers of rubber, palm oil, coal and other commodities, although together they accounted for less than 3 percent of Indonesia's overall GDP, according to a report by Bank Danamon in Jakarta.
Salam to all. finally after long day under the hot sun n heavy traffic i finally manage to find time to sit back n on my lappy. situasi di Padang amat berkecamuk. setiap hampir 10 min kita boleh mendengar bunyi siren dan deruman ambulan berkejar ntah kemana. hari ini bekalan air ,letrik komunikasi masih terputus di Padang. kelihatan motor dan kereta beratur panjang di petrol pump untuk mendapatkan bekalan. hari ini mesin ATM local bank juga sudah mula berfungsi di beberapa bank. very loong Q. namun ia hanya bertahan sekejap. lepas tu habis dah duit.
hanya beberapa lokasi sahaja yg terang malam ini dengan menggunakan Genset. dalam masa sekejap,kedai yg berniaga dengan menggunakan genset habis menjual makanan. yg tinggal kedai yg menggunakan gas pump atau lilin. kinda romantic tho. under the moon and on ground zero
internet ini adalah ihsan dari UN dan juga Telkomsel.
merata tempat kelihatan pasukan Search N Rescue bekerja keras hingga ke malam hari mencari mangsa yg masih lagi terselamat dibawah timbunan runtuhan. bau mayat begitu kuat di bawah runtuhan di hampir kesuluruhan kawasan. namun relawan dari Indonesia dan juga negara luar bekerjasama didalam situasi ini. tiada sempadan atas nama kemanusiaan.
bilik hotel sudah penuh. badan dah melekit. tomorrow is another day enjoy the pictures.
* U.N. says death toll more than 1,000 * Rescue teams resume work * Students trapped in toppled school * Communications cut, water in short supply
By Sunanda Creagh
PADANG, Indonesia, Oct 2 (Reuters) -
Rescuers dug feverishly on Friday through the rubble of a school and other buildings toppled by an earthquake in the Indonesian port of Padang, but few victims were being found alive two days after the tremor. The United Nations said more than 1,000 had been killed in the port, prone to seismic activity. Aid to thousands of displaced survivors started trickling in, but rescue operations in and around Padang, the West Sumatran capital of 900,000, have been hampered by power blackouts and a lack of heavy equipment to shift fallen masonry.
A giant excavator donated by a cement company tore through piles of twisted iron and rubble, the wreckage of a three-storey college where dozens of students were attending after-school lessons when the quake struck. "We have pulled out 38 children since the quake. Some of them, on the first day, were still alive, but the last few have all been dead," said foreman Suria.
Like many Indonesians, he uses just one name. "There are still a lot of corpses in there, you can smell it. They are towards the back where we can't reach. The problem is a lot of buildings around here weren't very well built." The U.N. humanitarian chief, John Holmes, told a news conference at U.N. Headquarters in New York that some 1,100 people had been killed in Wednesday's 7.6 magnitude quake.
Thousands more were feared trapped under damaged houses, hospitals, hotels and schools, Holmes said. Telephone links to the disaster zone remained patchy, making it hard to determine the extent of destruction and loss of life. A social ministry official on Thursday put the number of confirmed deaths at 529, although authorities expected this to go far higher.
The national disaster management centre said 2,181 people had been injured and 2,650 buildings damaged. Padang has at times descended into chaos, with fuel in short supply, some shops running out of food and many residents scrambling to find clean water. Many roads in the region have been severed by landslides.
Conditions in Pariaman, nearer the quake's epicentre, may be even worse with reports of buildings flattened. Conditions in more remote areas in the mountainous hinterland were unknown. OPERATIONS PERFORMED IN TENTS A two-storey clinic at Padang's main hospital collapsed, but was empty after closing a few hours before the quake. Patients from adjacent wards were evacuated to nearby tents, while a makeshift open air morgue was set up, with lines of corpses placed in yellow body bags.
Padang resident Yunas Lubis stood weeping outside on Friday morning, carrying his baby granddaughter. "My daughter's husband was just pulled out of a building this morning. He was trapped there for two days," he said. "Why did it take so long to get him out? It was too late. It seems like there were not enough excavators. It was only last night the excavator came, pulled from another site." Operations were being performed in nearby white tents. "We have done hundreds of operations since the earthquake," Dr Nofli Ichlas said on Thursday. "Some broken bones, some with limbs completely cut off. Fractured skulls, abdominal trauma too - when something has stabbed into the patients body."
Australia, South Korea and Japan led aid offers. Australia's military said it was sending engineers, rescue teams, a hospital aboard a naval ship and helicopters able to reach remote districts. A team from aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres included two kidney specialists to treat victims of "crush syndrome", in which toxins released by internal injuries can cause kidney failure. U.S. President Barack Obama, who spent time in Indonesia as a child, said the United States also stood ready to assist. "Indonesia is an extraordinary country that's known extraordinary hardship with natural disasters.
I know firsthand the Indonesian people are strong and resilient and have the spirit to overcome this enormous challenge." President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who returned from the G20 meeting a day earlier, visited the hospital on Friday. "Just rest, rest for a long time.
We must be patient," he told one young woman patient. A 6.6 magnitude quake hit another part of Sumatra island on Thursday, causing fresh panic but no reported deaths.
The second quake's epicentre was about 225 km (140 miles) southeast of Padang, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
(Corrects dateline) By Tim Wimborne SIUMU, Samoa, Sept 30 (Reuters) -
Rescuers pulled bodies from the mud and twisted rubble and fished bloated corpses from the South Pacifc's blue sea off Samoa on Wednesday as the death toll from a series of tsunamis continued to rise. "We've seen pick-up trucks carrying the dead ... back to town," said New Zealand tourist Fotu Becerra. "We were shocked when we saw the first one but after three hours, it seemed normal." Four powerful tsunamis generated by a huge undersea quake crashed into Samoa and neighbouring American Samoa on Tuesday, destroying in minutes what was a South Pacific paradise of palm trees, resorts and pristine beaches.
"After the earthquake happened, after about five minutes all you could hear was screaming," an unnamed Australian holidaymaker told local media. The waves which reached at least 6 metres (20 feet) high ripped buildings apart and washed people out to sea, some still sleeping in their beds, say survivors. The death toll stands at more than 100, but officials said it was rising, with hundreds missing and some 20 Polynesian villages in Samoa destroyed and scores more flattened in American Samoa.
U.S. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in American Samoa and ordered federal aid to help the recovery. "We have more bodies that are being found in the wreckage and being excavated and being brought to the hospital so we expect that the death toll will rise," said Dr David Bouslough at the main hospital in Pago Pago, capital of American Samoa. Pago Pago resident Joey Cummings said buildings were not just destroyed but had vanished, washed away completely by the waves. "The harbour area where the radio station was looks like a bomb went off," Cummings told American TV.
"If your building was not made of concrete it doesn't exist any more. I'm not saying there are damaged buildings, these buildings aren't there any more." Reuters photographer Hugh Gentry said Pago Pago looked "like a war zone". "The most tragic (scene) was the discovery of a small girl found floating in the harbour," he said. WASHED AWAY AS THEY FLED The waves hit early in the morning, almost without warning, leaving many villagers little chance to outrun the ocean which surged 200 metres (656 feet) inland. "Some, they have no place (to run), especially kids and the oldest, they lost their lives," Tua Taleu, who fled to higher ground as waves swallowed his village, told Australian radio.
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said it was fortunate that the tsunami struck in daylight. "If it had come in the dark and the tide was high, the number of people who died would be much higher," he told Reuters. The Samoan undersea 8 magnitude quake was so powerful it also created small tsunamis which reached Hawaii, the west coast of California and Japan within hours.
Along the southern coast of Samoa's main island Upolu, which bore the brunt of the tsunamis, palm trees which had withstood powerful cyclones were snapped like twigs by the force of the ocean -- barely a tree has been left standing. A layer of mud and sand covers many of the splintered buildings, boats and cars hang from trees, as survivors scavenge the debris.
Survivors said people were collecting dead fish, washed ashore by the waves, to feed their families. Radio New Zealand, quoting disaster authorities, said 32,000 people have been affected by the tsunami, with 3,000 homeless. Officials in the neighbouring island nation of Tonga confirmed seven people killed there and three missing. The two Samoas and Tonga have a combined population of about 400,000 people and rely on subsistence agriculture, fishing and tourism. Australian, New Zealand and U.S. military aircraft carrying medical staff and emergency supplies have started landing in the two Samoas.
An Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004 -- which killed about 230,000 people in 11 countries -- is the worst on record. (Additional reporting by Baris Atayman in Samoa, Adrian Bathgate and Mantik Kusjanto in Wellington, Rob Taylor and James Grubel in Canberra) (Writing by Michael Perry; Editing by )
* Schools, hospitals, hotels collapse in quake-prone Padang
* 7.6 magnitude quake cuts communications
* Second quake hits Sumatra island
(Adds details, changes dateline) By John Nedy PADANG, Indonesia, Oct 1 (Reuters) -
Thousands may have died in an earthquake that struck the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island, a minister said on Thursday, with officials saying many victims remained buried under toppled buildings. The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Padang on Wednesday afternoon, knocking over hundreds of buildings, but with communications patchy it was hard to determine the extent of the destruction and loss of life.
Heavy rain was also hampering rescue efforts and officials said power had been severed in the city. Television footage showed people being pulled from the rubble. A second magnitude 6.8 quake hit another part of Sumatra on Thursday, causing fresh panic, according to television reports. The second quake's epicentre -- inland and further to the southeast -- was 154 km northwest of Bengkulu, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The area could not immediately be contacted. Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari told reporters at an airport in Jakarta before leaving for the stricken area that the number of victims "could be more (than hundreds or thousands).
I think it's more than thousands, if we look at how widespread the damage is ... but we don't really know yet." The national disaster agency earlier put the toll at between 100 and 200 in the city of 900,000. About 500 houses had collapsed, officials in the area said. Australian businesswoman Jane Liddon told Australian radio from Padang said the city centre was devastated. "The big buildings are down. The concrete buildings are all down, the hospitals, the main markets, down and burned. A lot of people died in there. A lot of places are burning. "Most of the damage is in the town centre in the big buildings. The little houses, the people's houses, there are a few damaged, but nothing dramatic."
TV footage showed piles of debris, collapsed houses and multi-storey buildings, with scores of crushed cars, after the earthquake, which caused widespread panic.
HOSPITAL, AIRPORT DAMAGED
The main hospital had collapsed, roads were cut off by landslides and Metro Television said the roof of Padang airport had caved in. The disaster is the latest in a spate of natural and man-made calamities to hit Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 226 million people. [ID:nLU415034] Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie said on Wednesday damage could be similar to that caused by a 2006 quake in the central Java city of Yogyakarta that killed 5,000 people and damaged 150,000 homes. "Hundreds of houses have been damaged along the road. There are some fires, bridges are cut and there is extreme panic here," said a Reuters witness in the city.
Broken water pipes had triggered flooding, he said before his mobile phone was cut off. The quake was felt around the region. High-rise buildings in Singapore, 440 km (275 miles) to the northeast, evacuated staff. Office buildings also shook in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur. Sumatra is home to some of the country's largest oil fields as well as its oldest liquefied natural gas terminal, although there were no immediate reports of damage. [ID:nSP404330] Padang, capital of Indonesia's West Sumatra province, sits on one of the world's most active fault lines along the "Ring of Fire" where the Indo-Australia plate grinds against the Eurasia plate to create regular tremors and sometimes quakes.
Geologists have long warned Padang may one day be destroyed by a huge earthquake because of its location. A 9.15 magnitude quake, its epicentre 600 km northwest of Padang, caused the 2004 tsunami that killed 230,000 people around in Indonesia and other countries across the Indian Ocean. The depth of Wednesday's earthquake was 85 km (53 miles), the United States Geological Survey said. It revised down the magnitude of the quake from 7.9 to 7.6. Australia's international Aid Minister Bob McMullan offered emergency assistance.
Humanitarian worker as a profession for the past 10 years.
Served:
Iran earthquake,
Acheh,Nias,Pulau weh(tsunami,earthquake)
Jogjakarta Volcano/earthquake,
Pakistan Earthquake,
Gaza/Palestin War,
Padang Earthquake.
Hari ini juga aku sempat menyinggah di kampung nelayan di tepi laut sewaktu pulang dari wilayah Pariaman.Mereka masih lagi takut untuk kelaut kesan trauma.dalam sehari hanya ada beberapa bot kecil sahaja yg turun kelaut.itupon sekadar untuk jarak dekat.Ini menyebabkan harga hasil laut meningkat dan bekalan berkurangan.
