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1 Dead
23 injured
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| The worse hit area was around the
Candi Desa area in east Bali. Where many buildings were damaged. It was
reported 1 man died of a heart attack and a boy had 2 legs broken in the
panic. |
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House damaged in CandiDassa
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Eye
Witness Report
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www.eastbalipovertyproject.org
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| I was staying in Alila Hotel when
the earthquake struck. The shock lasted, I would say, much more than 2
minutes and was bloody darned scary. As I drove into Candidasa at 10.20am,
there were two ambulances with sirens blaring heading towards Amlapura.
I got information later that 3 people were seriously injured by their house
roofs caving in on them. One man was transferred to Sanglah (Hospital DPS)
in a very serious |
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| condition. I just read the AFP report
and it seems very badly informed. Fortunately in Desa Ban (our Project
Village), none was injured. I guess that is mainly because all of their
houses are single room, majority only made from bodeg (woven bamboo) generally
with zinc roofs. |
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MORE
AFTER SHOCKS
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| JAKARTA Tues Jan 06 (AFP):
Two minor earthquakes hit Indonesia's holiday island of Bali today, four
days after a powerful tremor which damaged thousands of buildings. The
deep-sea quakes, registered at 3.7 and 4.1 on the Richter scale respectively,
occurred almost simultaneously Tuesday morning but were "hardly felt" by
residents, said Budi Waluyo of the Meteorological and Geophysics Agency
(BMG) in Jakarta. There were no reports of casualties or damage. Many residents
of Bali, particularly in the Karangasem district on its eastern tip, are
still afraid to return to their homes which were damaged by last week's
quake, Waluyo said. |
| We felt another slight tremor at
the KHO at approximately 6.15pm January 06 |
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Seismic
Monitoring
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| Indonesia does not belong to the
American lead, International seismic monitoring service, the nearest is
run by the Australian government on Cocos island, 1274 km from Jakarta
or 2038 km from the KHO. The strength of the quake was registered as 5.4
by the Cocos monitoring station. Bali has a monitoring station and belongs
to the ASEAN network. |
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The Cocos Isl Seismic station
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Earthquake
Zone
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The 1917 Bali Earthquake
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| Bali suffers earthquakes regularly,
the worse recorded was on 21st of January 1917 north of Singaraja, Bali,
with over with over 15,000 people dead. Other major quakes occurred
in 1830, 1888 and 1979. Bali also has suffered many volcano eruptions and
Tsunami (tidal waves) in 1977 and 1994. |
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1994
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| An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 occurred
off the SE coast of Java Island, Indonesia, at 01:17AM local time on June
3, 1994 The epicenter was at 10.5°S, 113.0°, about 240 km from
the nearest coast. The shock was felt on east Java island and on Bali Island,
but only awakened 10-20% of the inhabitants. No damage was reported on
land. About 50 mins after, a large tsunami struck SE Java and SW
Bali, causing serious damage. 223 dead, approximately 400 were
injured, and over 1000 houses were destroyed. |
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