Underground fuel pipelines of a gas station exploded on Friday damaging at least three houses in Marapalam Village, East Padang Subdistrict, West Sumatra.
"The blast caused shattered ceiling and broken walls of the houses," ANTARA quoted Head of (...)
Two people were found dead on Wednesday night after being buried in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in the West Sumatra provincial capital of Padang earlier in the day.
The two, identified as Nazwa and Jamaris, were among four people feared (...)
A major quake of 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted the West Sumatra coastal areas at 09.10 western Indonesian time this morning, but there has been no report of casualty and damage to property.
The quake sent people rushing out of their houses and (...)
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake shook the West Sumatra provincial capital of Padang on Sunday, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG).
The epicenter of the quake which struck at 04.18 p.m. was located 67 km southwest of Padang at (...)
A cruise ship caught fire at the pier of Bungus seaport, Teluk Kabung village, Padang city, at 11.30 a.m. on Thursday, but no fatalities were reported.
"Fire brigade office received information about the ship catching fire from a local resident," (...)
A strong earthquake rocked the West Sumatra provincial capital of Padang at around 06.50 p.m. on Wednesday, prompting many people to rush outdoors, ANTARA reported.
There was no immediate report from the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (...)
AlQa'dah 4, 1432, Oct 2, 2011, SPA -- An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit the West Sumatra provincial capital of Padang on Sunday forcing many residents to stay outdoors.
The epicenter of the quake which struck at 01.06 p.m. on (...)
An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale jolted Muara Labuh in Solok Selatan district, West Sumatra, at 6.33 am local time on Tuesday, ANTARA reported.
Padangpanjang Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) spokesman Furqan (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.8 at the Richter scale again hit Mentawai islands, West Sumatra province, on Wednesday at 5.15 PM local time.
Residents of Sikakap subdistrict, district of Mentawai islands, felt the tremor so strongly but it ended (...)
Qa'dah 19, 1431, Oct 27, 2010, SPA -- Planes and helicopters delivering rescuers, medicine and other supplies landed for the first time Wednesday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 10-foot (3-meter) tsunami, sweeping away villages (...)
An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale shook Padang city on Monday at 2.30 am local time.
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said the epicenter of the quake was located at coordinates 1.1 southern latitude and (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Padang, in the wee hours of Saturday, causing panic among local residents.
The temblor's epicenter was located at 0.86 degrees southern latitude, and 99.91 degrees eastern longitude, around (...)
The Australian government has set aide 15 million Australian dollars for a program to support West Sumatra's rehabilitation and reconstruction following the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that hit the province in September 30, 2009.
Australian (...)
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale rocked Padang, West Sumatra Province, on Wednesday at 8.11 am local time, ANTARA reported.
The quake"s epicenter was located at 1.48 degrees southern latitude and 99.33 degrees eastern longitude, (...)
The death toll from last Wednesday's powerful earthquake that devastated West Sumatra province rose to 703 on Tuesday, ANTARA reported.
Most of the fatalities were found in Padang City where 327 people perished, according to official data from the (...)
American troops set up a field
hospital today and rerouted ships to aid victims of a
powerful earthquake that left hundreds of thousands
homeless, in their largest relief operation in
Muslim-majority Indonesia since the 2004 Indian (...)
Rescuers and aid
workers were fanning out on Monday into the hills of Indonesia's
Sumatra island, where hundreds of people were buried in
landslides triggered by an earthquake that may have killed
3,000, Reuters reported.
In the shattered city (...)
At least four Indonesian villages
were obliterated by earthquake-triggered landslides that
buried as many as 644 people including a wedding party
under mountains of mud and debris, AP qouted officials as saying Saturday.
The full extent of (...)
Rescuers pulled a teenager alive from her collapsed college about 40 hours after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, while elsewhere they heard cries for help Friday from people trapped under a collapsed hotel.
The rare success (...)
Rescue workers used excavators Thursday to pull out victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 529 people. The death toll was expected to rise.
The brunt of Wednesday's (...)
Rescue workers pulled victims,
some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings
felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 531
people. The death toll was expected to rise, according to AP.
The brunt of Wednesday's (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Padang city in West Sumatra on Tuesday at 10.57 pm local time, ANTARA reported.
The quake's epicenter was located at 3.91 degrees southern latitude and 100.39 degrees eastern longitude, or 101 (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale rattled West Sumatra province on Monday, forcing thousands of people to rush outdoors, ANTARA reported.
The epicenter of the quake which struck at 02.10 p.m. was in the sea about 76 km southwest of (...)
An earthquake measuring 5.6 on Richter scale, with an epicenter about 74 km north west of Muko-Muko, Bengkulu, jolted West Sumatra at 5.25 am on Thursday, ANTARA reported.
Meteorological and Geophysics (BMG) official Nasrul told ANTARA on Thursday (...)
A tectonic earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale jolted Padang, West Sumatra Province, on Tuesday, at 9.23 am local time, ANTARA reported.
The quake's epicenter was located at 0.94 degrees southern latitude and 99.8 degrees eastern (...)
