Rise to 154 dead and 400 missing in Indonesian quake.
Jakarta, October 27 .- The Indonesian authorities today raised the toll to 154 dead and 400 missing after the earthquake of 7.5 magnitude on the Richter scale and subsequent tsunami that struck on Tuesday the west coast of the island Sumatra.
According to the National Agency for Disaster Management, a dozen villages in the Mentawai archipelago were destroyed by the earthquake, gaia items, triggers tsunami with waves up to six meters high which penetrated 600 meters on the ground.
Sources from the governorship of the province of West Sumatra, the most affected, requested assistance for the many victims who have lost their homes and were left to weather.
Indonesian Red Cross speaks of at least about 2,000 displaced and, final fantasy 14 gil, disappeared about nine boats.
When the tsunami struck, had at least eight Spaniards in the area are well, told the Spanish Embassy in Jakarta.
United Nations sent a mission today to assess damages and needs of the population of Mentawi, an archipelago consisting of some 70 islands and islets, with around 62,000, buy darkfall gold, inhabitants.
Among the most damaged villages of Betumonga is located on the island of Pagai Utara, where at least 89 percent of homes, most of bamboo have been destroyed or damage reported.
"There are many missing and we fear they have died," said the head of the crisis center, Mujianto, the television station Metro TV.
, gaia gold, The epicenter of the earthquake, which preceded the disaster to the eruption of Merapi volcano on the island of Java, was located 33 km depth below sea level and 149 km south of the city of Padang, capital of West Sumatra.
During the following 14 hours, aftershocks occurred up to 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale.
The fault where the earthquake is the same as the December 26, 2004 caused an earthquake of 9.1 degrees and then a tsunami that destroyed coastal towns of a dozen nations washed by the Indian Ocean and caused 226,000 deaths.
The city of Padang, which as Mentawi islands sits on a tectonic plate of high seismic activity, was the scene last year another 7.6-magnitude earthquake that caused over 700 deaths.
Indonesia is located on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire ", an area of great seismic and volcanic activity that is shaken by some 7,000 earthquakes per year, mostly small and inconspicuous scale for the population. csm / zm / msr
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