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West Sumatera (Indonesia)
Earthquake Catastrophe
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Major earthquake hits West Sumatra cities
A major earthquake magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale struck West Sumatra yesterday causing havoc and major damage to the provincial capital of Padang and Pariaman District. Padang, a city of 900,000 people, sits on one of the world's most active fault lines along the so-called "Ring of Fire". The epicenter of the earthquake was located 57 km. west of Pariaman and at a sea depth of 71km, with its affects felt around the region including in Singapore and Malaysia.
-- Source: An excerpt from Reuters AlertNet
Some additional sources on this issue:
- West Sumatra Earthquake 2009 (ReliefWeb)
- Indonesia: Strong earthquake hit West Sumatra (Global Voices Online)
- Death toll in West Sumatra quake rises to 478 (Antara News)
- Youtube.com videos
Headline News
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Qantas drama: 'Flames like a giant candlestick' - Sydney Morning Herald
Qantas drama: 'Flames like a giant candlestick'
Sydney Morning Herald
... in comparison to the fear he felt while in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra in Indonesia, when an 8.4 magnitude earthquake struck in September 2007. ...
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Govt raises alert level on Mt. Seulawah Agam - Jakarta Post
Govt raises alert level on Mt. Seulawah Agam
Jakarta Post
The center has maintained the top alert level on Mt. Sinabung in the neighboring province of North Sumatra following an eruption on Sunday, and the second ...
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Governor Takes Oath inside Garage - Tempo Interaktif
Governor Takes Oath inside Garage
Tempo Interaktif
TEMPO Interactive, Padang:Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi installed Irwan Prayitno and Muslim Kasim as West Sumatra governor and deputy governor, ...
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Mount Sinabung Erupts in Sumatra After 400 Years: Some Facts - Suite101.com
The Hindu
Mount Sinabung Erupts in Sumatra After 400 Years: Some Facts
Suite101.com
Mount Sinabung is located in the north west of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, around 40 miles south west of the city of Medan. ...
Volcano Eruption in Indonesia, No Victims So FareWorld Post (blog)
Sleeping giant sleeps no moreIndependent Online
Volcano erupts in SumatraNews24
Earthtimes -Australian Geographic
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Indonesia edges closer toward uranium mining and nuclear power - Proactive Investors Australia
Proactive Investors Australia
Indonesia edges closer toward uranium mining and nuclear power
Proactive Investors Australia
He suggested that the permanent disposal of nuclear waste in Indonesia needs to be earthquake-free with waste trapping locations so it would not escape into ...
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Voluntary Donation - A Call for Action
If you intend to donate for supporting emergency actions responding to this catastrophe you may send it to a realiable channelling body such as Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI), the Indonesian Red Cross. Details of their bank accounts are as follows:
- Bank name: BCA KCU Thamrin, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bank's SWIFT code: CENAIDJA
Account name: Kantor Pusat PMI
Account number: 206.300668.8 - Bank name: Bank Mandiri KCU Jakarta Krakatau Steel, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bank's SWIFT code: BEIIIDJA
Account name: Palang Merah Indonesia
Account number: 070-00-0011601-7
Note:
Please first verify the data above from PMI's official website.
Data on Indonesian banks' SWIFT Code can be found here.
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The scene of tribal conflicts and guerrilla incursions, Ethiopia's Omo Valley is also home to fascinating rites and traditions that have survived for thousands of years. The nomadic people who inhabit the valley share a gift for body painting and elaborate adornments borrowed from nature, and Hans Silvester has captured the results in a series of photographs made over the course of numerous trips.
In this stunning collection of photographs, Silvester (Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley) celebrates the unique art of the Surma and Mursi tribes of the Omo Valley, on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. These nomadic people have no architecture or crafts with which to express their innate artistic sense. Instead, they use their bodies as canvases, painting their skin with pigments made from powdered volcanic rock and adorning themselves with materials obtained from the world around them-such as flowers, leaves, grasses, shells and animal horns.
The adolescents of the tribes are especially adept at this art, and Silvester's superb photographs show many youths who, imbued with an exquisite sense of color and form, have painted their beautiful bodies with colorful dots, stripes and circles, and encased themselves in elaborate arrangements of vegetation and found objects. This art is endlessly inventive, magical and, above all, fun.




