6 March, 2007 |

The number of victims of earthquake on Sumatra is still increasing

Earthquake 6,3 magnitude under the Richter scale has occurred on Tuesday at the western coast of island Sumatra in Indonesia. The epicenter was in 50-ty kilometers in the east form Padang city.
&0 people became the victims of today’s earthquake in the western part of island Sumatra. Such information was given by the secretary of the Ministry Cabinet of Indonesia in Djakarta.
Groups of the rescuers work in the zone of catastrophe, the first medical aid is rendered by local doctors and Red Cross and the Green Half Moon volunteers.
The authority representatives declare on the destructive consequences of this strongest earthquake which has happened on the Indonesian islands from the beginning of this year. For last two years tectonic cataclysms have carried away lives of more than 200 thousand Indonesian people.
Underground fluctuations were also significantly felt in Singapore, located in 430 kilometers from an epicenter, and also in Malaysia and number of office buildings in these countries have been evacuated.
In December, 2004 powerful earthquake at coast of Sumatra has provoked a tsunami as a result of which more than 230 thousand people, including 131 thousand inhabitants of Indonesian province Aceh, died.

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