Thursday, July 20, 2006
Indonesian Earthquake
Indonesian EarthquakeI just couldn't believe it. Another earthquake has just hit Indonesia. Only 2 days after the Pangandaran earthquake. What happened to Indonesia. It was first Aceh, then Yogyakarta, now Pangandaran, then today Banten. It is the fourth in a year. So many people had died from the quake and sadly it's going to continue. Blame the people for the earthquake. It's not the fault of the earth or god. It's the people who brought this upon themselves.
Imagine the people who killed each other just because some simple provocation.
Imagine the people who destroyed the nature and forest just for the sake of getting money.
Imagine the people who committed roberry, murder, cheating, adultery, and other crimes.
It is their sin that they need to pay back. Soul for soul. Until they realise their sin, the nature will not stop turning on them and bringing much more disaster. As predicted by Nostradamus, disasters will keep hitting us non stop.
For myself, I feel affected in one way or another. Morally, it is saddening to see so many people died in the natural disaster. I do feel for all those people who lost their family members, houses and lost their hope to survive. Financially, the Indonesian economy is going to be hit badly and capped with the peaking oil prices, I fear for the economy. I am very worried for my family too. Even though they live far from the earth-quake affected area, my house is just 5 minutes away from the sea. I just hope that nothing will happen to my area.
Anyway this time I will let the newspaper do the talking:
AFP
Rescuers dug with bare hands in a grim search for bodies after more than 520 people were confirmed killed in the second tsunami to strike Indonesia in as many years. The three-metre (10-foot) tsunami lashed the densely-populated south coast of Java island on Monday, sparking memories of the 2004 catastrophe that left 220,000 people dead across Asia, 168,000 of them in Indonesia's Aceh province.
CNN
More than 35,000 people have been displaced, Indonesia's department of social affairs said on Wednesday, adding that hundreds of buildings were destroyed.
New York Times
Most villagers said they had been taken by surprise when the wall of water about six feet high pounded the shore, leveling houses and hotels up to a quarter of a mile from the shore. Debris blocked roads, and cars and small boats carried inland by the waves littered the coconut groves.
Ambulances and Indonesian military vehicles raced back and forth from the coast to inland hospitals carrying the injured throughout the day as bodies continued to wash up on the beach.
Officials from the Indonesian Social Welfare Ministry made preparations to take rubber speedboats out early Wednesday morning to search for more bodies, which they said they expected to find, indicating the death toll could still increase.
At one makeshift camp, outside a school perched on a hill in the village of Cikembulan, about 2,000 people huddled together to keep warm as they slept on the ground. No tents had arrived and many were weak from hunger.
Once again pictures describe a thousand words and sorrow.
This is where the earthquake hits.
A man weeping for his deceased wife.
Indonesian Red Cross carrying 1 of the casualties
A man looking for his relatives among the dead bodies.
The last prayer held in a mosque to send off the dead body.
Singapore Red Cross helping 1 of the victim.
One eldery woman in pain.
2 kids hving their simple meal admist the rubble.
Everything is level with the ground.
Everything was lost under the rubble.
Is there still hope for him?
He is all alone now.
If this bear can speak, he will tell you the story.