day of death

Day of death in Samoa (Published: 5:34AM Thursday October 01, 2009) Source: ONE News/Newstalk ZB Reuters

Acting Prime Minister Bill English says the New Zealand death toll appears to be at three, with two confirmed dead and one missing presumed dead. “My understanding is that there is certainly one tourist. And it may be the other two are residents (of Samoa).” Nine New Zealanders are confirmed injured in hospital in Apia. English says the devastation on the small community is becoming more apparent and an estimated 10,000 Samoan people are displaced. “We need to get the international co-ordination going. We’ve got France and Australia who have very generously offered any assistance that is needed, alongside New Zealand. “Some of the infrastructure is just wiped out … housing, fresh water … and those are going to be the immediate needs that have to be met for thousands of Samoans.” ONE News reporter Paul Hobbs says witnesses have described scenes of death and destruction alongside dramatic survival stories. The death toll of over 100 appears to be largely a guess, with dozens still missing and the numbers of fatalities expected to climb.

Calgary Herald News Indonesia quake death toll may be thousands: minister Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:33pm EDT By John Nedy PADANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – Thousands may have died in an earthquake that struck the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, a minister said on Thursday, with officials saying many victims remained buried under toppled buildings. The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Padang on Wednesday afternoon, knocking over hundreds of buildings, but with communications patchy it was hard to determine the extent of the destruction and loss of life. Heavy rain was also hampering rescue efforts and officials said power had been severed in the city. Television footage showed people being pulled from the rubble.
A second magnitude 6.8 quake hit another part of Sumatra on Thursday, causing fresh panic, according to television reports. The second quake’s epicenter — inland and further to the southeast — was 154 km northwest of Bengkulu, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The area could not immediately be contacted. Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari told reporters at an airport in Jakarta before leaving for the stricken area that the number of victims “could be more (than hundreds or thousands). I think it’s more than thousands, if we look at how widespread the damage is … but we don’t really know yet.” The national disaster agency earlier put the toll at between 100 and 200 in the city of 900,000. About 500 houses had collapsed, officials in the area said. HOSPITAL, AIRPORT DAMAGED The main hospital had collapsed, roads were cut off by landslides and Metro Television said the roof of Padang airport had caved in. The disaster is the latest in a spate of natural and man-made calamities to hit Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 226 million people.

The quake was felt around the region. High-rise buildings in Singapore, 440 km (275 miles) to the northeast, evacuated staff. Office buildings also shook in Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. A 9.15 magnitude quake, its epicenter 600 km northwest of Padang, caused the 2004 tsunami that killed 230,000 people around in Indonesia and other countries across the Indian Ocean. The depth of Wednesday’s earthquake was 85 km (53 miles), the United States Geological Survey said. It revised down the magnitude of the quake from 7.9 to 7.6.

Typhoon Ketsana death toll hits 86 From correspondents in Hanoi, Vietnam
October 01, 2009 Article from: Agence France-Presse

THE death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Ketsana rose to 86 today, an official said. The official from the national flood and typhoon control committee said 24 of the deaths occurred in the mountainous inland province of Kon Tum. Across the central region where Ketsana struck there were 16 missing and 124 injured, the official said. Vietnam suffers annually from tropical storms and typhoons but this year’s toll exceeds the deaths recorded in 2006, when Tropical Storm Durian killed at least 70 in the country’s south, and Typhoon Xangsane left more than 70 dead in central Vietnam. Ketsana hit Vietnam on Tuesday after devastating the Philippines, where it killed 277 and Cambodia, where 11 have died.

Brisbane Times News Philippine floods death toll hits 277 October 1, 2009 – 11:29AM The death toll in the Philippines from flooding unleashed by tropical storm Ketsana has risen by more than 30 to 277, the country’s government says. Aside from the 277 people confirmed killed, 42 people remain missing, the National Disaster Coordination Council said on Thursday. Tropical storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rains in more than 40 years on Manila and neighbouring parts of Luzon island on Saturday. The number of people affected by the storm has climbed to 2.5 million people, the council said, up nearly 300,000 from the previous day’s estimate.




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