A second powerful earthquake jolted western Indonesia on October 1 just hours after the first quake hit Sumatra island, with upwards of 1,000 people feared dead and many more trapped under collapsed buildings.
The earthquake struck at 8:52 am (0152 GMT), nearly 150 miles (240 kilometres) south of Padang in south Sumatra at a depth of just under 20 miles.
Meanwhile, the death toll in the quake that measured 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale that hit the Indonesia island of Sumatra on September 30 could number in the “thousands,” Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's disaster centre, was cited as saying by Reuters.
Speaking with the press after an emergency Cabinet meeting, Indonesia ’s Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that power supplies had been cut after many hotels, schools and others buildings had collapsed, leaving many people trapped under the debris.
At least 500 buildings in Padang were destroyed or were badly damaged and 200 bodies have already been pulled from the rubble there, according to the country’s Disaster Management Agency.
The Indonesian government has allocated an initial fund of 10.3 million USD to finance the efforts to rescue the victims of the major quake in West Sumatra , according to Public Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie.
Oxfam UK also donated 200,000 GBP (320,000 USD) to the earthquake victims./.
The earthquake struck at 8:52 am (0152 GMT), nearly 150 miles (240 kilometres) south of Padang in south Sumatra at a depth of just under 20 miles.
Meanwhile, the death toll in the quake that measured 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale that hit the Indonesia island of Sumatra on September 30 could number in the “thousands,” Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's disaster centre, was cited as saying by Reuters.
Speaking with the press after an emergency Cabinet meeting, Indonesia ’s Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that power supplies had been cut after many hotels, schools and others buildings had collapsed, leaving many people trapped under the debris.
At least 500 buildings in Padang were destroyed or were badly damaged and 200 bodies have already been pulled from the rubble there, according to the country’s Disaster Management Agency.
The Indonesian government has allocated an initial fund of 10.3 million USD to finance the efforts to rescue the victims of the major quake in West Sumatra , according to Public Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie.
Oxfam UK also donated 200,000 GBP (320,000 USD) to the earthquake victims./.
