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October 27, 2010

Updates On Natural Disasters In Indonesia

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Dr. Borrero was the first author on a paper that talked about different scenarios of tsunami-related flooding in western Sumatra. The report, published in [...]
October 28, 2010

Some Of The Destruction On North Pagai Island. (AFP: Rus Akbar)

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In the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra, an undersea earthquake triggered a tsunami that has killed more than 150 people. The undersea earthquake that [...]
October 27, 2010

President To Visit Padang On Wednesday Afternoon

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono decided to cut short a state visit to Vietnam on Wednesday for an urgent trip to Padang of West Sumatra to receive a [...]
October 27, 2010

Obama Offers Condolences To Sumatra`s Tsunami Victims

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and his family offered their heartfelt condolences to the families of victims in Monday`s deadly earthquake-triggered tsunami in Mentawai, West Sumatra. [...]
October 26, 2010

Indonesian Tsunami Kills 108, Hundreds Missing

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Indonesia following an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra killed more than 100 people, officials said on Tuesday, and hundreds more were missing. [...]
August 30, 2010

Reliance Power May Invest $5 Billion In Indonesia

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24 (Bloomberg) -- Reliance Power Ltd. may invest $5 billion to build a railway and develop coal mines in South Sumatra, Yopie Hidayat, a spokesman to [...]
October 27, 2010

Coast Surfers Safe, Fears For Others

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NINE Gold Coast surfers who jumped from their burning vessel before being washed ashore on a 3m tsunami in Sumatra, are today making their way back to [...]
October 26, 2010

Dozens Missing After Tsunami Hits Indonesia Islands

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A rescue team loaded a ship in Padang, West Sumatra on Tuesday to prepare for the evacuation and rescue of victims of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake and [...]
October 27, 2010

Aid Workers Attempting To Reach Indonesia Quake, Tsunami Victims

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Reports of villages flattened are coming from there," said Antorizon of the West Sumatra disaster management agency, who like many Indonesians goes by one [...]
August 31, 2010

As Mount Sinabung Continues To Rumble, Evacuees Face A New Threat ? Disease

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Area residents have fled as North Sumatra's Mount Sinabung continues its eruption, throwing ash as high as two kilometers. (EPA Photo/A de Sahputra) Jakarta [...]
October 27, 2010

Sumatra Earthquake And Tsunami Could Herald Bigger Quake

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Hampered by bad weather, Indonesian rescue workers continue to search for survivors of the tsunami which hit the Mentawai Islands west of Sumatra on Monday. [...]
October 27, 2010

Tsunami And Volcano Devastate Indonesia

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A 7.7-magnitude quake struck in the Mentawai Islands area west of Sumatra late Monday, generating waves as high as three metres that swept away 10 villages. [...]
October 26, 2010

Death Toll Rising After Tsunami Hits Indonesia

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A rescue team loaded a ship in Padang, West Sumatra on Tuesday to prepare for the evacuation and rescue of victims of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake and [...]
August 30, 2010

21 Islamist Militants Go On Trial In Indonesia

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on foreign aid workers and others in Aceh province of Indonesia's major island of Sumatra, bordering the Indian archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar. [...]
August 30, 2010

S. Sumatra's $1.67b Coal Railway To Begin Soon

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State coal mining company PT Bukit Asam, construction company PT Adani Global and South Sumatra administration have agreed to build a US$1.67 billion [...]
August 31, 2010

Indonesia Volcano Calmer After Sudden Eruptions

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Photo: AP The Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra appears to be calming down. Approximately 29000 people have been evacuated from around the [...]
August 30, 2010

Indonesia's Volcano Eruption Forces More Evacuation

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30 (Xinhua) -- The number of people forced to be evacuated due to the eruption of a volcano in Sumatra island, Indonesia, may rise to 34000, spokesman of [...]
October 28, 2010

We Couldn't Outrun Killer Wave: Villager

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Aerial surveys showed the rubble of homes destroyed by waves triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit the west coast of Sumatra at 9:42 pm on Monday [...]
August 30, 2010

Indonesia's Volcano Re

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30 (Xinhua) -- Volcano in Sumatra Island of Indonesia erupted again on Monday morning, spewing smokes up to over 2000 meters high, potential to disturb [...]
October 27, 2010

Another Earthquake Strikes Near Sumatra

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The epicenter of the 6.1 magnitude quake was located 225 kilometers of the Sumatran capital city of Padang, 695 kilometers south-west of Kuala Lumpur and [...]
October 27, 2010

Missing Man Confirms Aussie Surfers Found Alive

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Bad weather and heavy seas have hampered government efforts to reach the Mentawai islands, which stretch along Sumatra's west coast and is an eight-hour [...]
October 26, 2010

Former MP Among Nine Missing

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A group of Australians on a boat off Sumatra survived the explosion of their boat after the earthquake. UPDATE 7.11pm: AT least nine Australians are missing [...]
October 27, 2010

5 Moderate Quakes Hit Indonesia's W Sumatra

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JAKARTA, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Five moderate earthquakes hit Indonesia's West Sumatra province on Wednesday, the Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and [...]
October 27, 2010

Sumatra Fires Cause Singapore Haze

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Forest fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have caused a thick cloud of smoky haze to drift over Singapore, causing the worst air pollution in four [...]
October 27, 2010

Indonesia Responds To Dual Natural Disasters

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Photo: AP Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will head to western Sumatra Thursday to support recovery efforts from a tsunami that killed more [...]

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