Four people were killed and several houses and buildings damaged after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua on February 9, a disaster agency official said.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 19 cabled a message of condolences to Indonesian President Joko Widodo over the recent earthquake and plane crash.
A 5.9-magnitude aftershock shook Indonesia’s North Maluku province on November 15 after a strong quake hit the area in theearly morning of the same day.
The Indonesian Government will double its disaster response budget to 15 trillion rupiah (1.06 billion USD) in 2019 after a series of major natural disasters devastated three regions of the vast archipelago last year.
Indonesia announced on October 5 the death toll from a powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck the country’s Central Sulawesi province a week ago has swollen to 1,558.
The earthquakes and subsequent tsunami that hit Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi have so far killed 1,407 people, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) reported on October 3.
Flight activities at Sis Al-Jufri Airport in Palu, Central Sulawes,i are expected to return to normal within a week to serve travel demands and provide aid to locals hit by the recent deadly earthquake and tsunami, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on October 2.
The death toll from the recent earthquakes rocking Indonesia’s Lombok island has climbed to 555, while nearly 1,500 others were left injured and hundreds of thousands homeless, according to the country’s disaster agency.
US scientists said on August 10 that successive strong earthquakes have lifted Lombok island, West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia, they struck by 25cm.
Around 7,000 foreign tourists had been evacuated from Gili Trawangan, Gili Air and Gili Meno islands in Indonesia as of August 7, after a recent 7-magnitude earthquake struck the nearby tourist island of Lombok with the death toll climbing to 105.
At least 97 people have lost their lives in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit Indonesia’s western province of Aceh on December 7 early morning, said rescuers.
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