by Elisia Yeo
AFP May 29, 2006 BANTUL, Indonesia - Indonesia struggled to cope with the scale of the earthquake disaster, with aid trickling in for thousands of injured and homeless survivors who faced a difficult third night in the open.
As the death toll from Saturday's quake passed 5,100, foreign rescue teams and international aid workers fanned out across the quake zone in central Java, distributing much-needed food, water, tents and tarpaulins. But ongoing power cuts hampered rescue work, and fresh rains as night fell spelled more misery for some 200,000 people made homeless by the disaster. Some of them expressed anger that help was not reaching them more quickly. |
AFP
May 28, 2006 |
AFP
May 28, 2006 Washington - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 shook the ocean floor early Sunday near the Pacific islands of Tonga, smaller than initially estimated, the US government said.
The US Geological Survey originally estimated a 6.7 magnitude. The USGS said the epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 0336 GMT, was located 143 kilometers (89 miles) north-northeast of the island nation's capital, Nuku'alofa. No reports of casualties or damage were immediately available. |
AFP
May 28, 2006 |
by Bhimanto Suwastoyo
AFP Sat May 27, 2006 YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake in Indonesia killed more than 3,000 people, reducing whole villages to rubble in the nation's worst catastrophe since the 2004 Asian tsunami.
Countless victims were buried alive when the 6.2 magnitude quake struck at dawn, turning houses into tombs of stone and setting off panic in a country that has been plagued by natural disasters. An official at the social affairs ministry's disaster relief centre said at least 3,002 people were dead and more than 2,500 seriously injured in the quake on the south coast of Java island. |
AFP
May 27, 2006 Jakarta - The earthquake that rocked Java Saturday was the latest disaster in a part of the world known as the Pacific "Ring of Fire" that has seen a burst of seismic and volcanic activity this year.
Whether on land or undersea, the volatile edges of the north Pacific, bounded by the east Asian rim and the west coast of the Americas, are alive with near-constant seismic activity. Some of the most dramatic natural disasters of recent history have happened within the Ring's arc, which stretches from Chile, north to Alaska and then west to encompass Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands. |
AP
Sat May 27, 2006 IRVINGTON, Ky. - Severe thunderstorms that lashed through Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana left five people dead and a 4-year-old girl missing, authorities said Friday.
The girl's mother and another adult got out of their vehicle safely before a rain-swollen creek swept the car away with the child about 50 miles southwest of Louisville Thursday night, said Rick Priest, Breckinridge County emergency management director. |
Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience.com Sat May 27, 2006 A new study comparing the most recent drought in the Southwest United States with other dry periods going back 508 years confirms worries that water shortages will become more common and severe.
Agreements to allocate water from the Colorado River were made in 1922, during an historically wet period. More water was allocated than is actually available now, scientists say. |
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