Others braved the scorching sun as they listened to the mosque's imam encouraging them to be courageous.Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Indonesia's disaster management agency spokesman, said about 1,000 people may be buried in areas liquefied by the earthquake in Palu city's Balaroa and Petobo. BNPB has indicated that there is no request for international assistance at this stage. The shaking was felt as far away as Samarinda, the capital of East Kalimantan, to the west and Makassar in the south.The earthquake happened during the 40th anniversary of the city of Palu. "Looking at all this I know, really, it's impossible she's alive," he told Al Jazeera. Local authorities initially reported that more than 140,000 houses were damaged as a result of the earthquakes.
Several others were injured.Local residents stated that many bodies were lined and laid on the side of the street and many were also found on the shoreline. Little of that, however, has reached the disaster zone. It was expected to be at a low height, no more than about 2 metres, since the earthquake was a More than 70,000 houses are reported to be damaged, forcing tens of thousands of people to live in shelters and tents.Authorities confirmed that numerous settlements and residential areas, including more than a thousand homes, had been destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami.Officials confirmed that Palu's iconic bridge, the Communication to the affected area was severely hampered, with President An assessment made by the Ministry of Education and Culture showed that nearly 3,000 schools had been damaged by the earthquake and tsunamiIn the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, prisoners in the Donggala Penitentiary in Central Sulawesi rioted and set the prison on fire as they demanded to be met by their families. The first place that was hit by the tsunami was the beach where a festival named Festival Pesona Palu Nomoni was ongoing. The injured and those with children received priority seating on the Hercules C-130 aircraft.
"We're on our last legs. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne stated that the $5 million will include emergency healthcare support in the initial phase up to 21 days. (As of 16 November, more than six weeks after the disaster, many needs remain. (According to BNPB reports, over 129,000 houses were damaged and more than 445,000 people have been internally displaced. "But I can't quite bring myself to give up hope. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the festival was resumed.The mainshock magnitude was initially reported as M7.7 by both the USGS and During the mainshock, the rupture propagated at speeds in excess of the Indonesian authorities confirmed that no one had been able to contact a single person from Donggala, the closest town to the epicentre.The mainshock was followed by a series of aftershocks, with 14 of M≥5.0 in the first 24 hours.The earthquake was felt over a wide area. "Hay added: "The scene in Donggala is of devastation in the small, peaceful and once-picturesque fishing villages.
"The city of Palu has been devastated and first reports out of Donggala indicate that it has also been hit extremely hard by the double disaster. During a live TV broadcast of the rescue mission in Tatura Mall, the rescue attempt was interrupted as dozens of looter raided the mall. More than 2,000 people are known to have died and 4,400 are seriously injured, according to the Indonesia disaster management agency. (As of 1 October, according to BNPB, the four quakes during July and August killed more than 510 people, injured at least 7,100 others, and displaced more than 431,000 people with 88,740 houses and 798 public and social facilities (community health centres, mosques and schools) destroyed or damaged. But they obviously looked tired and stressed out," Al Jazeera's Ted Regencia reported from the scene.Outside Palu's Mutiara Al Jufri Airport, hundreds of others were camped out, some receiving medical treatment, others awaiting a chance to escape.There was mounting concern over Donggala, a region of 300,000 people north of Palu and closer to the epicentre, and two other districts - with a combined population of about 1.4 million.Initial reports from Red Cross rescuers who reached the outskirts of Donggala district were chilling.The situation in the affected areas is nightmarish," Jan Gelfand, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) office in Jakarta, said in a statement. As of 1 August, the National Disaster and Mitigation Agency (BNPB) had recorded 10,062 displaced people and 5,448 destroyed houses across Lombok, most of which are located in East Lombok regency. Latest earthquakes in Indonesia: interactive map & list / VolcanoDiscovery. This event was preceded by a sequence of foreshocks, the largest of which was a magnitude 6.1 tremor that occurred earlier that day. The areas were swallowed by three-metre deep mud.Search-and-rescue operations have been hindered because the land is still too wet to manoeuvre on.In the Palu neighbourhood of Balaroa, about 1,700 houses were buried when the earthquake caused soil to liquefy, the national rescue agency said.Liquefaction is a phenomenon where saturated sand and silt take on the characteristics of a liquid during the intense shaking of an earthquake. Among the more than 1,550 people killed in the quake-tsunami were 34 children at a Christian bible study camp that was hit by liquefaction. A French rescue team using high-tech equipment failed to find anyone alive under the rubble of a hotel in Indonesia's central Sulawesi.A member of the French organisation, Pompiers de l'urgence, said on Thursday the team's sensors "detected the presence of a victim" in the wreckage of the four-star Mercure Hotel in Palu.The device can pick up breathing and heartbeats, but the team also cautioned that gas leaks and other factors can result in false positives.On Friday, however, the resucers said no sign of life had been found by the equipment and the team was moving on to other areas.