JAKARTA, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Another tsunami warning
was issued after a magnitude 7.7 aftershock struck the nation's Sumatra island
on Thursday, according to the meteorology.
The magnitude 7.7 aftershock struck at 06:49 Jakarta
time (2349GMT) with epicenter at 140 kilometers southwest Sungai Penuh town of
Jambi province and at 24 kilometers under seabed, an official of the Meteorology
and Geophysics Agency said.
"The
quake is potential for tsunami," the official said.
The powerful main shock with magnitude of 7.9 rocked
Bengkulu province on Wednesday afternoon. At least nine people were killed and
more than 100 were predicted injured in the quake that hit Bengkulu province of
Indonesia on Wednesday, Disaster Management Agency said here Thursday.
An official of the agency Firman Haye said that seven
of the fatalities were found in Bengkulu city the capital of Bengkulu province
and two others in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province. "Seven died in
Bengkulu and two in Pandang," Haye told Xinhua.
Strong and moderate aftershocks frequently hit
Bengkulu province, scaring the people to return home and settled at open areas.
"Many of the people in the city build tents outside
far from buildings," the provincial Red Cross staff Sugent Suyatno told Xinhua
from the province.
Outside the biggest provincial hospital in the city,
soldiers, police and Red Cross staff build tents outside the cracked hospital
buildings to avoid from possibility of the collapse of the building due to
frequent tremors, said Suyatno.
"Over 160 patients have been evacuated from inside
the hospital building," he said.
Metro television footage showed that patients laying
on bed were moved in harsh outside hospital building in Bengkulu and West
Sumatra province.
At Least 9 killed in strong Indonesian
earthquake
JAKARTA, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least nine
people were killed and more than one hundred feared injured after a strong
earthquake measuring 7.9 magnitude on Ritcher Scale hit Bengkulu province of
Indonesia on Wednesday, Disaster Management Agency said here Thursday.
The agency official Firman Haye said that seven of the
fatalities were found in Bengkulu city, capital of Bengkulu province, and two
others in Padang, capital of West Sumatra province. Full story
String of aftershocks rattle Sumatra,
Indonesia
JAKARTA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- A string of
aftershocks hit Sumatra island, Indonesia, on Wednesday evening, several hours
after a powerful earthquake rocked Bengkulu province at 6:10 p.m. local time.
Metro TV reported that the aftershocks occurred at 8:17
p.m., 9:04 p.m., 9:25 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. in several locations in Sumatra.
The 9:40 p.m. aftershock, which measuring 6.6 on the
Richter scale, had an epicenter 51 kilometers southwest of Lais, Bengkulu, at a
depth of 30 kilometers. Full story
Strong earthquake rocks western part
of Indonesia, warning of tsunami issued
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