Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 08:56:30 +0000
The death toll from the tsunami-hit Indonesian islands on Saturday night has passed 420 with more than 1,400 people injured.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 04:36:30 +0000
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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 02:40:09 +0000
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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 01:10:38 +0000
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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:36:27 +0000
An unpredictable chain of events and an inadequate early warning system combined to deadly effect with the tsunami that slammed into coastal areas of Indonesia killing nearly 300 people.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 07:29:21 +0000
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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 02:53:22 +0000
Another tsunami could strike Indonesia, experts warned on Sunday, a day after more than 200 people were killed by a wave triggered by a volcanic eruption.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 02:45:23 +0000
The death toll from a volcano-triggered tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 281, with more than 1,000 people injured.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:40:30 +0000
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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 07:53:08 +0000
Questions still abound about what caused the tsunami that hit beaches in Lampung and Banten on Saturday night, killing at least 168 and injuring 750.
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