Post by Jaga on Oct 2, 2018 3:20:09 GMT -7
I realize it is far away, still a huge tragedy and the loss of many lives - over 1200 for now and counting
www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/toll-from-indonesia-quake-tsunami-tops-1234-as-desperation-mounts-among-survivors/2018/10/02/32b21108-c5ca-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?utm_term=.7f2671a790c8
The death toll is likely to rise even further, as victims have not been tallied from two housing complexes outside Palu city which were “swept away and swallowed by mud,” according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency. A process of liquefaction, where hard sand and silt take on the characteristics of liquid, becoming muddy and loose, made electrical poles appear like they were “walking,” according to residents, and “moved houses from one area to another.”
Rescue workers have just begun to reach the region of Donggala where some 300,000 people live. The area is still hard to access due to badly damaged roads, and rescuers doing damage assessments say everything on the coast has been damaged and destroyed. On Tuesday, local television broadcasts showed angry residents screaming at Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, to ask for help.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/toll-from-indonesia-quake-tsunami-tops-1234-as-desperation-mounts-among-survivors/2018/10/02/32b21108-c5ca-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?utm_term=.7f2671a790c8
The death toll is likely to rise even further, as victims have not been tallied from two housing complexes outside Palu city which were “swept away and swallowed by mud,” according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency. A process of liquefaction, where hard sand and silt take on the characteristics of liquid, becoming muddy and loose, made electrical poles appear like they were “walking,” according to residents, and “moved houses from one area to another.”
Rescue workers have just begun to reach the region of Donggala where some 300,000 people live. The area is still hard to access due to badly damaged roads, and rescuers doing damage assessments say everything on the coast has been damaged and destroyed. On Tuesday, local television broadcasts showed angry residents screaming at Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, to ask for help.
