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525 Confirmed Dead from Quake Triggered Tsunami
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86 dead as quake triggers tsunami

Monday, July 17, 2006; Posted: 7:15 p.m. EDT (23:15 GMT)

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A major earthquake off the coast of Java and a tsunami that followed has killed at least 86 people, according to Red Cross officials and media reports.

Most of the deaths are believed to have been caused by the tsunami, but some people may have died in the initial quake or the crush of people rushing for higher ground as the ocean's waves approached, officials said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there did not appear to be a widespread tsunami threat in the region.

The center's Web site reported that "sea level gauge data indicate that a tsunami was generated" but it added that "based on historical earthquake and tsunami data, plus current sea level readings, a more widespread tsunami threat probably does not exist."

The hardest hit area appeared to be Pangandaran Beach, where 38 bodies were recovered, officials said.

Indonesian radio interviewed a witness named Teti who said the giant waves -- as high as trees -- damaged homes and other buildings, and she reported seeing at least three dead bodies.

An entire hotel was also washed away, Teti said, and everyone ran for higher ground.

Boats crashed to shore, some slamming into hotels, and houses and restaurants were flattened along a 175 kilometer (110-mile) stretch of the densely populated island's southern coast.

Jan Boeken, from Antwerp, Belgium, said he was sitting at a bar when his waiter started screaming, The Associated Press reports.

"I looked back at the beach and saw a big wall of thundering black water coming toward us," said the 53-year-old, who escaped with minor cuts to the head and knees. "I ran, but I got trapped in the kitchen, I couldn't get out. I got hit in the body by debris and my lungs filled with water."

The Indonesian Red Cross, police and district officials said at least 82 people were killed and 77 others were unaccounted for, most in Pangandaran and nearby Cilacap. El-Shinta radio reported four other deaths.

"We are still evacuating areas and cross-checking data," Red Cross official Arifin Muhadi told The Associated Press.

Most of the victims were believed to be Indonesians, but at least one Swedish tourist was being treated for injuries at a hospital near Pangandaran and his two sons, 5 and 10, were missing, said Jan Janonius, a Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman.

A witness told el-Shinta he saw the ocean withdraw 500 meters (1,500 feet) from the beach a half-hour before the powerful wave smashed ashore, a typical phenomenon before a tsunami.

"I could see fish jumping around on the ocean floor," Miswan said. "Later I saw a wave like a black wall."

Local media reports said the wave came as far 300 meters (900 feet) inland in some places. Buildings sit close to the beach in Pangandaran.

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Indonesia has installed a warning system across much of Sumatra island but not on Java. The government has been planning to extend the warning system there by 2007.

Local parliament member Rudi Supriatna Bahro in Ciamis, West Java, appeared on Metro TV Monday saying that while the larger hotels around the beach remained standing many of the smaller buildings were destroyed.

The International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) issued a tsunami watch after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 rumbled in the Indian Ocean 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of Jakarta.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center Web site, the quake hit at 3:19 p.m. (8:19 a.m. GMT).

Three strong aftershocks followed over the next three hours, according to the USGS and Indonesian radio.

The ITIC said the tsunami watch was in effect for parts of Indonesia and Australia.

In May, an earthquake in the Indonesian region of Yogyakarta killed more than 6,000 people and displaced more than 200,000, according to United Nations figures.

A massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December of 2004 killed more than 200,000 people in 12 countries.

Copyright 2006 CNN.

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Re: 86 dead as quake triggers tsunami
« Reply #1 on: Jul 18^th, 2006, 8:04am »

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The death toll rise to about 300 already.

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« Reply #2 on: Jul 18^th, 2006, 3:34pm »

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Even with no warning system, the fact that the ocean drew out like it did in Thailand should have warned people. I guess the problem was spreading the message. How terrible that this happened again.

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and how terrible that several of them died trying to get to higher ground when they realized it was coming...there has to be a better evacuation system put in place as well as a better warning system...and really there are some that none of it would have mattered for. In the first one it took only 8 minutes for the waves to reach the island near the epicenter and the island was nearly decimated. There wouldn't have been any ground high enough, and none that they could have gotten to in under 8 minutes.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The death toll from an earthquake and resulting tsunami that smashed into fishing villages and resorts on Indonesia's Java island has reached 525 with 273 people missing, officials have said.

Another 383 people were injured after waves as high as three meters (10 feet) lashed out at almost 200 kilometers (124 miles) of Java's southern coast on Monday.

More than 35,000 people have been displaced, Indonesia's department of social affairs said on Wednesday, adding that hundreds of buildings were destroyed.

"We are mobilizing all our national and provincial resources to the area to handle the injured," said Dino Djalal, a spokesman for Indonesia's president.

Rescue teams are searching for those still missing and makeshift morgues litter the island that was spared by the massive 2004 tsunami, Reuters news agency reported.

Most of the deaths are believed to have been caused by the tsunami. The remaining victims likely died in the initial quake, as opposed to the aftershocks, or during the crowded rush for higher ground as the waves approached, officials said.

The International Tsunami Information Center issued a tsunami watch after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake rumbled in the Indian Ocean 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of Jakarta.

But for many of the survivors, the only warning they got was the earthquake itself, and some are questioning why a warning system is not yet in place.

Indonesia received the bulletins 45 minutes before the tsunami hit, Science and Technology Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman said in an AP report. But the government did not announce them because they did not want to cause unnecessary alarm, Kadiman said in the AP report.

"If it (the tsunami) did not occur, what would have happened?" he told reporters in Jakarta, noting that there was no effective way to spread a warning without a system of sirens or alarms in place.

The early warning system that Indonesian, German and U.N. scientists began developing after the devastating December 2004 tsunami has not been completed, but deep ocean sensors are in place off the coast of Sumatra, and data from these will be studied, officials said.

The hardest hit areas appeared to be Indonesia's Pangandaran beach, where 38 bodies were recovered, officials said, and Ciamis.

Indonesian radio interviewed a witness named Teti who said the giant waves -- as high as trees -- damaged homes and other buildings, and she reported seeing at least three dead bodies. A hotel was also washed away, Teti said, and everyone ran for higher ground.

Parliament member Rudi Supriatna Bahro in Ciamis, West Java, appeared on Metro TV saying that while the larger hotels around the beach remained standing, many of the smaller buildings were destroyed, as were dozens of homes.

After Indian officials found out about the threat, police were seen ordering people to leave east coast beaches.

In May, an earthquake in the Indonesian region of Yogyakarta killed more than 6,000 people and displaced more than 200,000, according to U.N. data.

A massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004 killed more than 200,000 people in 12 countries.

CNN's Kathy Quiano contributed to this report.

Copyright 2006 CNN.

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