Sick, hungry Indonesia tsunami survivors cram shelters

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 04:36:30 +0000

Sick, hungry Indonesia tsunami survivors cram shelters

Desperately needed aid flowed into a stretch of Indonesia’s tsunami-struck coastline Tuesday, but humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies were dwindling as thousands crammed makeshift evacuation centers.

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City to foot medical, funeral bills of Jakartan tsunami victims

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 02:40:09 +0000

City to foot medical, funeral bills of Jakartan tsunami victims

The Jakarta governor has announced that the capital will be paying for the medical and funeral costs of Jakartans who were killed in the Sunda Strait tsunami that hit the Anyer coast in Banten province on Saturday evening.

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Everything’s gone’: Indonesian villagers recount tsunami horror

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 01:10:38 +0000

Everything’s gone’: Indonesian villagers recount tsunami horror

Asep Sunaria heard a loud “whoosh” just seconds before a wall of water threw him off his motorbike, swallowing his house and the village he called home until Saturday night.

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German geoscience center detected 5.1 M quake before Sunda Strait tsunami

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:29:21 +0000

German geoscience center detected 5.1 M quake before Sunda Strait tsunami

An earthquake that occurred near the Anak Krakatau volcano on Saturday night may have contributed to the tsunami that hit beaches in Banten and Lampung shortly afterward.

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Indonesia has no early warning system for volcanic tsunamis—disaster agency

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:40:30 +0000

Indonesia has no early warning system for volcanic tsunamis—disaster agency

The government said on Sunday following a “volcanic tsunami” in the Sunda Strait that the country did not have any early warning system for tsunamis not caused by earthquakes.

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