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Series of powerful quakes kills 4 in Indonesia
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 01 - 2009


A series of powerful earthquakes
at dawn Sunday killed at least four people and injured
dozens more in remote eastern Indonesia, cutting power
lines and destroying buildings, AP reported.
One of the quakes _ a 7.3-magnitude tremor _ sent small
tsunamis into Japan's southeastern coast, but there were no
reports of damage there and no tsunami in Indonesia's
impoverished Papua area.
The first 7.6-magnitude quake struck at 4:43 a.m. local
time (1943 GMT) on land about 85 miles (135 kilometers)
from Manokwari, Papua, at a depth of 22 miles (35
kilometers), the U.S. Geological Agency said. It was
followed by 10 aftershocks.
At least four people died in Papua, and the airport runway
nearest the epicenter was cracked, President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono told reporters. Commercial flights to the area
were canceled.
«I've instructed emergency steps be taken to help our
brothers and to restore power and other vital utilities,»
he said without commenting on how widespread the damage
might be.
Among the dead was a 10-year-old girl whose head was
crushed, said local hospital director Hengky Tewu.
«We have our ambulances picking up two more,» he said.
Another 19 patients at the hospital were treated for broken
bones, cuts, crushed fingers and other injuries.
Papua police chief Maj. Gen. Bagus Ekodanto said he
received reports that a hotel and rice warehouse had been
«destroyed,» but he did not know if anyone had died. A
search for possible victims was under way.
Several stories of the Mutiara Hotel in the main city
Manokwari collapsed, said Ina, a nurse at a navy hospital
treating 20 quake patients. Like many Indonesians she goes
by a single name.
Electricity was cut off and people in the coastal city of
167,000 fled their homes in the dark fearing a tsunami,
said Hasim Rumatiga, a local health official. The
Indonesian Meteorology and Seismology Agency issued a
tsunami alert, but it was revoked within an hour after it
was determined the epicenter of the main quake was on land.
Japan's Meteorological Agency said tsunamis of 4 inches
(10 centimeters) to 16 inches (40 centimeters) in height
splashed ashore in towns along the coast. It also warned
that bigger tsunamis were possible later.
The damage in Indonesia was still be being assessed.
Quakes centered onshore pose little tsunami threat to
Indonesia itself, but those close to the coast can still
churn up large waves emanating out to other countries like
Japan.


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