My country is being tested by God again.
On September 30th, a big earthquake hit Padang, capital city of West Sumatra, Indonesia.



Here's the news (taken from 's journal :

The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occurred just off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The major shock hit on September 30, 2009 At least 1100 people were killed as a result, with thousands more trapped in collapsed buildings.

A second powerful earthquake has hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra 01 October 20099, a day after the first devastating quake left more than 500 dead, thousands of people buried in rubble and a major city cut off from the outside world.

There were 529 confirmed deaths from the first quake, said relief officials, although the figure was likely to rise.

In Padang, a city of 900,000, it was clear the authorities scarcely knew where to begin the recovery. There was no heavy lifting equipment to move the rubble under which hundreds more may be buried and soldiers were only just beginning to arrive in significant numbers.

People were sleeping on the street outside shattered homes or camping out at the airport. Even families whose homes stayed resolute in the face of the 7.6 magnitude quake were staying out of doors, fearful of aftershocks.

Many houses, though ramshackle, still stand. It is the large, public buildings, mostly those in the centre of town, that have been worst hit by the quake.

At least 500 buildings in the city collapsed in the quake. At least 80 people were missing at the city's five-storey Ambacang hotel, which also fell. Rescuers, working in heavy rain, found two survivors and nine bodies in the hotel's rubble.

The first emergency medical relief – a team of 40 doctors from Jakarta – was expected to reach the area today.

Rescue efforts have been hampered by the disruption of electricity and telecommunication lines, which have thrown Padang into darkness. Reports claimed all roads into the city were blocked by landslides.

The earthquake in Sumatra came 24 hours after a huge tsunami struck Samoa at dawn on Tuesday – triggered by an earthquake measuring between 8.0 and 8.3 – which also flattened villages and swept cars and people out to sea, killing at least 100 and leaving dozens missing. Survivors fled the churning water for higher ground on the South Pacific island.

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