Padang: the cultural central of Ranah Minang [Part 2]

[rilham2new]

Turut berduka cita atas Gempa di Padang .... Gempanya kerasa sampe ke Johor Bahru .... Kuat banget. T_T

[Kris18]

Turut berduka cita atas gempa di Padang , Sumatera Barat. Kami di Pekanbaru mendoakan agar saudara-saudara dan kawan-kawan disana diberikan keselamatan dan pertolongan Allah SWT. Amiin.

[Ampelio]

turut berduka cita dan simpati yg mendalam... kenapa gempa sekarang ni frekuensinya semakin sering ya?

[rizalhakim]

Korban gempa Padang meningkat 467 mangsa


JAKARTA: Seorang pegawai kerajaan Indonesia hari ini menyatakan korban gempa bumi di Sumatera Barat meningkat kepada 467 orang.

Tugiyo Bisri dari Pusat Krisis Kementerian Hal Ehwal Sosial Indonesia berkata 467 orang disahkan maut dan 421 lagi cedera parah dalam gempa bumi berukuran 7.6 pada skala Richter itu.

Katanya, 376 kematian dicatatkan di Padang, ibu negeri Sumatera barat.

Daerah Pasaman pula mencatatkan 75 kematian dan selebihnya di tiga lagi daerah. - AP

[rizalhakim]

pics...
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Powerf...indonesiaquake

2nd quake shakes Indonesia after temblor kills 467

PADANG, Indonesia – A second powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia on Thursday as rescuers struggled to reach survivors of the previous day's temblor, which killed at least 467 people and left thousands trapped under collapsed buildings.

The death toll from Wednesday's undersea quake of 7.6 magnitude was expected to rise further after rescuers dig through the rubble in heavily populated towns of Sumatra island. The second, 6.8-magnitude quake damaged additional buildings Thursday.

"This is a high-scale disaster," Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari told Metro TV.

Padang, a coastal city of 900,000 and capital of West Sumatra province, became the immediate focus of relief workers.

At least 500 buildings in Padang collapsed or were badly damaged in the Wednesday evening quake, which also set off fires, said Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono.

A total of 467 people were confirmed dead and 421 seriously injured, said Tugiyo Bisri of the Social Affairs Ministry's crisis center. He said 376 deaths occurred in Padang, with rest of the deaths in four surrounding districts.

At least 80 people were missing at the 5-story Ambacang hotel in downtown Padang, said Indra, a paramedic who uses only one name. Rescuers, working in heavy rain, found two survivors and nine bodies in the hotel's rubble.

Terrified residents who spent a restless night were jolted by the fresh tremor on Thursday morning.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the inland quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hit about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Padang at a depth of just under 20 miles (24 kilometers).

The second quake reportedly damaged 30 houses in Jambi, another Sumatran town. It was not yet clear if there were injuries, said Jambi Mayor Hasfiah, who uses only one name, like many Indonesians.

Collapsed or seriously damaged buildings in Padang included hospitals, mosques, a school and a mall. TVOne network footage showed heavy equipment breaking through layers of cement in search of more than 30 students it said were missing from the school where they were taking after-school classes.

Parents of missing students stayed up all night, waiting for signs of life under the rubble.

"My daughter's face keeps appearing in my eyes ... my mind. I cannot sleep, I'm waiting here to see her again," a woman, who identified herself only as Imelda, told TVOne, tears rolling down her face. She said her 12-year-old daughter Yolanda was in school to take science lessons.

"She is a good daughter and very smart. I really love her. Please God help her. I hope rescuers, everybody... can help her out of here. Please!" she said.

An unidentified boy told TVOne that he escaped from the top floor just as the three-story school crumpled. He said he was taking math lessons while many others were taking science courses.

Wednesday's temblor severed roads and cut off power and communications to Padang. Thousands fled in panic, fearing a tsunami. The shaking was so intense that people crouched or sat on the street in fear.

Children screamed as an exodus of thousands of frantic residents fled in cars and motorbikes, honking horns.

The quake was felt hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in Malaysia and Singapore, causing buildings there to sway.

The extent of damage in surrounding areas was still unclear due to poor communications. Indonesia, a poor, sprawling nation with limited resources, sits on a major geological fault zone and is frequently hit by earthquakes.

More than 3,000 people were killed in the last big earthquake in 2006 that hit Yogyakarta, a major city on the main island of Java.

The latest quakes came in the wake of a killer tsunami Tuesday that hit islands in the South Pacific, killing at least 120 people. Geologists said the two events were not related.

The Padang quakes were along the same fault line that spawned the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations.

Padang's mayor appealed for assistance on Indonesian radio station el-Shinta.

"We are overwhelmed with victims and ... lack of clean water, electricity and telecommunications," Mayor Fauzi Bahar said. "We really need help. We call on people to come to Padang to evacuate bodies and help the injured."

Thousands were believed trapped throughout the province, said Rustam Pakaya, head of the Health Ministry's crisis center.

The shaking felled trees and crushed cars in Padang. A foot could be seen sticking out from one pile of rubble. At daybreak, residents used their bare hands to search for survivors, pulling at the wreckage and tossing it away piece by piece.

The loss of telephone service deepened the worries of those outside the stricken area.

Hospitals struggled to treat the injured as their relatives hovered nearby.

Indonesia's government announced $10 million in emergency response aid and medical teams and military planes were being dispatched to set up field hospitals and distribute tents, medicine and food rations.

Local television reported more than two dozen landslides in the province. Some blocked roads, causing miles-long traffic jams of cars and trucks.

[paradyto]

Korban meningkat mencapai 500 Turut Berduka Cita atas korban Gempa di Sumatera Barat...

[ival.ct]

turut berduka cita yang sedalam dalamnya atas saudara-saudara kita yang terkena musibah gempa Padang Sumatra Barat.. INNALILLAHI WAINNA ILAIHI RAAJIUN..

[joeylen]

TURUT BERDUKACITA DAN BERSIMPATI ATAS BENCANA GEMPA BUMI DI PADANG SEMOGA DIBERI KETABAHAN DAN KEKUATAN DARI TUHAN YANG MAHA KUASA

[Sony Sjklw]

Turut berduka cita semoga saudara-saudara kita di Padang dan sekitarnya di beri ketabahan dalam menghadapi cobaan ini.

[lampung_gech]

TURUT BERDUKA CITA, SEMOGA SEMUA MASYARAKAT PADANG DIBERI KEKUTAN DAN KETABAHAN....

[976]

Turut berduka atas musibah yang melanda sumatra dan sekitarnya.

[eurico]

Turut berduka cita bagi kawan-kawan ku di Padang Sumatra Barat atas musibah gempa ini, semoga diberikan ketabahan dan keselamatan bagi semuanya.

[Balaputradewa]

Untuk Forumer Padang: Ikhlas, Bagak, Skyheart, Fajri dll apa kabar kalian disana?? kok gak posting lagi Keluarga Balaputradewa di Nareh, Sungai Sariak dan Tiku juga kena musibah

[VRS]

OMG.....76, richter.... so sad....cant said or type anything....
many my family relative in matur bukit tinggi n padang pariaman still cant contact till last night....

[rizalhakim]

Indonesian quake toll at 1,100; thousands missing


By IRWAN FIRDAUS, Associated Press Writer Irwan Firdaus, Associated Press Writer – 12 mins ago
PADANG, Indonesia – Across this coastal provincial capital, hardest hit by the latest earthquake to devastate Indonesia, mourners, survivors and rescue workers alike clawed through heaps of concrete in searches for thousands still missing.

Some, like Malina, had already realized the worst. She was just looking for the shoes missing from her dead daughter's body, found in the rubble of a four-story school that was flattened within seconds. Like many Indonesians, she goes by one name.

As the death toll climbed Thursday — to 1,100 by one U.N. estimate — others looked for survivors, with thousands of people missing and feared trapped in the wreckage of shattered buildings.

When search efforts were suspended for the night, an eerie quiet fell over the city of 900,000.

"Let's not underestimate. Let's be prepared for the worst," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said in the capital, Jakarta.

Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake started at sea and quickly rippled through Sumatra, the westernmost island in the Indonesian archipelago.

Government figures put the number of dead at 777, with nearly 2,100 people seriously injured. John Holmes, the U.N.'s humanitarian chief, set the death toll at 1,100, and the number was expected to grow.

President Barack Obama, who spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, pledged to support earthquake recovery efforts there, as well as provide assistance to the South Pacific countries of Samoa and American Samoa, which were hit by a deadly tsunami Tuesday. The United States pledged $3 million in immediate assistance.

Most of the confirmed deaths in Indonesia were reported in Padang, where more than 500 buildings were severely damaged or flattened.

Where a mall once stood was a heap of concrete slabs layered like pancakes with iron rods jutting out. Police and army rescue teams used bulldozers, backhoes and electric drills to clear the wreckage in intermittent rain, or climbed the hills of rubble to dislodge pieces of concrete with bare hands.

The rescue operation was being hampered by a lack of heavy digging equipment, said Priyadi Kardono, a spokesman for the Disaster Management Agency. Japan, Switzerland and Singapore were providing support and backhoes were to arrive at the scene Friday.

Relatives of the missing gathered outside ruined buildings, hoping to hear good news. But mostly, the rescuers found bodies.

Occasionally, they saved lives.

A Singaporean, John Lee, was pulled alive from the Maryani hotel after surviving under the rubble for 25 hours. Rescue workers, responding to his cries for help, dug for 12 hours to free him. Lee suffered only a broken leg.

One of the hospitals in the town had collapsed completely while the state-run Djamil Hospital was partly damaged — its walls cracked and windows broken. Staff at the hospital treated the injured in tents set up in the open. In another area, yellow body bags were laid out in rows.

Mira Utami, a sophomore a week shy of her 16th birthday, was taking an end-of-term English exam along with dozens of classmates at the Indonesia-America Institute when the ground shook so severely that the tremors were felt in neighboring Malaysia and Singapore.

Her father, Zul Elfrizal, rushed to the school, but it was already a heap of concrete when he got there. Still, he pulled at the slabs and managed to save two other children and an adult.

His wife, Malina, said rescuers found their daughter's body much later, but her feet were bare.

"We are in shock," sobbed Malina, wearing her daughter's brown veil and seeking other items to keep her connected to the girl. "We had planned to celebrate Mira's 16th birthday on Oct. 7. Now I don't know what we will do."

Elfrizal was more philosophical. "I regret I couldn't save her," he said, "but I have to accept that as her destiny."

The school building's construction was typical of the region, which is located in one of the poorest countries in the world. Most buildings are not made to withstand earthquakes, and even the tough ones were badly damaged in an earthquake in 2007.

There is virtually no enforcement of building regulations in Indonesia, a nation of 235 million people prone to natural and man-made disasters.

Indonesia sits on a major geological fault zone and experiences dozens of quakes every year. A 6.8 magnitude quake shook Sumatra on Thursday but there were no reports of deaths. Both quakes originated on the fault line that spawned the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations.

Wednesday's quake was the deadliest since May 2006, when more than 3,000 people died in the city of Yogyakarta.

SurfAid, a New Zealand-based medical aid group, said its program director, David Lange, narrowly escaped death when he fled the Ambacang Hotel in Padang just minutes before it collapsed. At least 80 people were missing in the five-story hotel, paramedics said.

"People are trapped and screaming for help but they are below huge slabs which will take heavy equipment to move," Lange was quoted as saying in a statement by SurfAid.

"I saw dozens of the biggest buildings collapsed in town. Most of the damage is concentrated in the commercial center market, which was fully packed," he said.

Finance minister Sri Mulyani said the government has allocated $25 million for a two-month emergency response. She said the earthquake will seriously affect Indonesia's economic growth, because West Sumatra is a main producer of crude palm oil.

"This region has been damaged seriously, including its infrastructure," Mulyani said.

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Associated Press writers Ali Kotarumalos and Niniek Karmini in Jakarta contributed to this report.

[rizalhakim]

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disedekahkan al-faithah....semoga roh mereka dicucuhri rahmat....amin!!

[sky_heart]

saya mewakili smua forumer dari padang mengucapkan terimakasih kepada teman2 forumer SSC dari pekanbaru, medan ,palembang ,bengkulu,KL, JB, jKT,SBY,bdg, makasar dll dari sluruh indonesia (yg tak bisa disebut satu persatu) terhadap dukungan kpd kami warga padang
thank, love u all

We will not go down, yeah...

[sky_heart]

fr rian my frend

[downsouth]

Turut berduka cita atas tragedy gempa di Padang, musibah ini menjadi begitu dekat bagi saya karena teman baik saya kehilangan ayah/mertua nya pada musibah ini. T T

[Skyprince]

Was exactly in Padang 4 months ago and I hope my Padang friend ( a local Indonesian lady ) & family are safe. Couldn't reach her since my visit