Indonesia quake death toll tops 1,100 after missing landslide victims included

October 1st, 2009 UN: Indonesia death toll rises to 1,100UNITED NATIONS — The U.N.'s humanitarian chief said Thursday the powerful earthquakes that struck Indonesia have killed at least 1,100 people. John Holmes said the latest figures "suggest the death toll has risen already to 1,100" and that there are "many hundreds of injured people as well" because of Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake, which originated in the sea off Sumatra island.

October 1st, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 200 people were reportedly feared killed in an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale near the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Wednesday afternoon. A disastrous relief spokesman said, at least 200 are dead and thousands are said to be buried under the rubble.

October 1st, 2009 Quake toll in western Indonesia reaches 467JAKARTA, Indonesia — A government official says the death toll in Wednesday's earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra island has reached 467. Tugiyo Bisri of the Social Affairs Ministry's crisis center says a total of 467 people are confirmed dead and 421 seriously injured in Wednesday's 7.6 magnitude quake.

September 30th, 2009 Indonesian quake kills dozens, traps thousandsJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian officials say at least 75 people have been killed and thousands more trapped under flattened buildings in a powerful earthquake off Sumatra island. Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced the death toll at a news conference, hours after the 7.6-magnitude quake hit off the coast of the town of Padang on Wednesday.

September 7th, 2009 JAKARTA - A strong earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale struck off the southern coast of the Indonesian island of Java late Monday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage, the Indonesian seismology agency said. The quake struck at 11.12 p.m.

September 5th, 2009 JAKARTA - The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that jolted Indonesia's West Java Wednesday has killed 70 people and wounded 966 while 32 are still missing, the national Antara news agency reported Saturday. Rano Harjaya, an official from the coordinating unit of the West Java Disaster Mitigation Service, said that most of the dead, wounded and missing victims were from Cianjur of West Java.

September 4th, 2009 Indonesian quake toll at 64, dozens still missingJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian rescue workers pulled several bodies from the rubble of a giant landslide Friday, lifting the death toll from a powerful earthquake to 64. Dozens more people were still missing, feared dead.

September 4th, 2009 Indonesian quake toll at 63, dozens still missingJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian rescue workers pulled several bodies from the rubble of a giant landslide Friday, lifting the death toll from a powerful earthquake to 63. Dozens more people were still missing, feared dead.

September 3rd, 2009 JAKARTA - UN agencies and the Indonesian government were dispatching relief teams Thursday as the death toll from a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck Java island rose to 49, officials said. Dozens were still missing and feared dead after the quake Wednesday triggered a landslide in Cianjur district in West Java.

September 2nd, 2009 Indonesian quake leaves 44 dead, dozens missingCIKANGKARENG, Indonesia — At least 44 people were killed and dozens were missing after a strong earthquake rocked southern Indonesia, unleashing mudslides that buried villagers in their homes, disaster management officials said Thursday. At least 110 people were hospitalized after the 7.0 magnitude quake just off the coast of the densely populated Java island, Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono said, adding that 10 of them were in critical condition.

September 2nd, 2009 Strong Indonesian quake kills 33; flattens housesJAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesians ran screaming out of buildings when a major earthquake rocked the country Wednesday, killing more than 30 people and unleashing a mass of rock and mud that buried villagers alive in their homes. The magnitude-7.0 temblor lasted nearly a minute and was felt hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.

September 2nd, 2009 JAKARTA - At least 44 people were killed in a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake that devastated the western part of Indonesia's Java island, state media reported early Thursday. The quake was felt strongly in the capital Jakarta Wednesday, shaking buildings and sending residents running out of their homes and high-rise office towers screaming in panic.

September 2nd, 2009 Strong Indonesian quake kills 15, flattens homesJAKARTA, Indonesia — A disaster management official says the death toll from a powerful Indonesian earthquake has risen to 15 with scores more injured. Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono says the victims died when the quake hit Wednesday in West Java.

August 2nd, 2009 JAKARTA - An undersea earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale Sunday jolted the West Papua province in eastern Indonesia, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said. The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at 0854 GMT, was located at 127 km off the coast of Manokwari.

June 9th, 2009 CHONGQING - The toll in a landslide in southwest China last week has risen to nine after rescuers recovered two more bodies as search for 63 other missing people continues. Nine people were killed and eight others injured following the landslide last Friday.