indonesia disaster relief - padang earthquake
National Disaster
- Padang Earthquake
- 7.6 Magnitude
- 582 aftershocks
- Devastates Padang 30/9/09 5:16pm local time
Official Death Toll as 2/10/09
- 704 people
- 295 missing
- 2090 injured
The number of casualties is expected to increase rapidly as search and rescue efforts pick up.
fth updates
FTH will work once again through the Indonesian Relief Fund and Pondok Kasih. Hanna Annanda, the head of the organisation was recently interviewed on the HARVEST SHOW, and we have worked with her organisation for many years.
Click here to watch the Harvest Show episode featuring Hanna Annanda.
field reports
FTH Relief Partners have arrange cargo space on a Military Hercules aircraft to transport emergency supplies to survivors of Padang Earthquake. The MAF air service has agreed to fly a team down to aside in recovery and distribution efforts, and a cargo ship is due to leave Monday 5th fully laden with 100 tons of relief supplies.
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u.n. situation reports
OCHA Situation Report as of 7th October 2009
- On 30 September, a powerful earthquake struck West Sumatra; 582 aftershocks detected since.
- As of 7 October, the Provincial Disaster Management Unit of West Sumatra (West Sumatra Satkorlak) confirmed 704 deaths, 295 people missing and 2,090 people injured. The provincial government also reported 102,046 houses as severely damaged, 49,864 houses as moderately damaged and 54,606 houses as slightly damaged.
- As of 5 October, tThe BNPB has also reported that 88,272 houses are severely damaged, 43,323 houses are moderately damaged houses and 47,076 houses are slightly damaged. In terms of schools facilities, 241 schools are severely damaged, 175 are moderately damaged and 87 are slightly damaged.
- The Meteorological and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) warned of storms over the next few days in remote areas. This could further hamper distribution of relief items to places already cut off by landslides in Padang and Pariaman. The population in the remote areas need to be alerted in this regard.
- Electricity is still down in many areas, since the earthquake struck
- Numerous land routes have been disabled due to landslides, particularly in inland mountainous areas. Fuel also remains a critical issue; however 50% of the petrol stations in Padang city reopened on 2 October and there is confirmed fuel supply for four days, while aircraft fuel supply at the Mingankabau Airport is secure for 13 days. However, road connection between the city of Padang and the fuel depot has been cut off by a landslide
- According to some operating partners in the field, the price of fuel has dramatically increased six-fold
- Accessing clean water is a problem in most of the affected areas due to damaged water mains; repairs are expected to start next week
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secular media reports
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