Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Sumatra

Sumatra stories: 13 news summaries
UPDATED

 Indonesian Ferry Sinks, Kills 25 

Rescuers pull at least 243 from rough waters

3 hours, 38 minutes ago
(AP) - Rescuers have saved 243 people from the Indonesian passenger ferry that sank today in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people, including two children, have died, an official said. An unknown number of passengers were still missing, and search operations were called off after nightfall. A second... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • shipwreck • Sumatra • ferry

 Landslides Wipe Out 
 4 Indonesian Villages 

Another 640 people feared dead in remote areas

Oct 3, 09 11:26 AM CDT
(AP) - At least four Indonesian villages were obliterated by earthquake-triggered landslides that buried as many as 644 people under mountains of mud and debris. Most of the victims were members of a communal wedding party. It's not clear exactly when the landslides occurred, but the full extent of Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • landslide • Padang • Sumatra • disaster recovery • disaster

UPDATED

 Miracle Rescue Lifts Hopes 
 for 3,000 Trapped in Quake 

Hopes dim as new emergency teams arrive in Indonesia

Oct 2, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescue teams racing to find earthquake survivors in Indonesia pulled a young woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed school today, a rare glimmer of hope in the 2-day-old search. More than 1,000 people are reported dead, and difficult conditions in Padang are making it hard to reach... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • survivors • Padang • Sumatra • earthquake • disaster • rescue mission

 Indonesia Quake 
 Toll Passes 1,000 

Samoa tsunami cleanup effort begins in earnest

Oct 1, 09 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The death toll in Indonesia has reached 1,100 and is expected to keep rising. Rescue workers are scrambling to find earthquake survivors under trapped buildings, with "many hundreds more" injured or missing, says a top UN relief official. Rescue efforts have been hung up over a shortage of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • South Pacific • tsunami • Pacific Ocean • Padang • Sumatra • earthquake • disaster • rescue mission • Samoa • American Samoa

 Indonesian Quake Toll 
 Passes 500, May 
 Hit Thousands 

Rescuers scramble to save victims trapped by two massive shakers

Oct 1, 09 3:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The final death toll in two massive Indonesia earthquakes may reach into the thousands as rescuers scramble to free victims still trapped in crushed buildings. "We need aid as soon as possible. We need food and medicine. Our houses have collapsed," said a resident of the bustling port... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • tsunami • death toll • Padang • Sumatra • earthquake

UPDATED

More Quakes Slam Indonesia, Still Counting Its Dead

Witness describes crumbled, burning wreckage in Padang

Sep 30, 09 9:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Indonesia, still counting the dead and searching for the missing from yesterday’s 7.6 earthquake, was rattled by two more earthquakes this morning local time. The US Geological Survey recorded a 6.8 quake 140 miles from Padang, the western Sumatran city nearest yesterday’s epicenter; just 20 minutes... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • death toll • Padang • Sumatra • US Geological Survey • earthquake • disaster • rubble

updated

 Indonesia Quake Toll 
 Hits 75; Thousands Trapped 

Death toll at 75 and rising quickly

Sep 30, 09 12:44 PM CDT
(AP) - The powerful earthquake that rocked western Indonesia today has trapped thousands under collapsed buildings—including two hospitals—and triggered landslides. At least 75 people were killed on Sumatra island, and the death toll was expected to climb sharply. The magnitude 7.6 temblor comes a day after a quake in... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • natural disaster • Sumatra • earthquake

 Tsunami Toll Reaches 100, 
 Obama Sends Disaster Aid 

Second earthquake near Indonesia triggers new wave warnings

Sep 30, 09 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The death toll from the tsunami triggered by last night's 8.3-magnitude earthquake near Samoa has risen to more than 100, with fatalities reported across a number of islands. Barack Obama declared American Samoa a disaster area and has pledged "swift and aggressive" aid to the territory, where at... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • tsunami • natural disaster • Sumatra • Pacific Tsunami Warning Center • earthquake • disaster • Samoa • American Samoa

 Poachers' 
 Poison Slays 
 Rare Elephant 

Giant male ate spiked pineapples

Jun 15, 09 3:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A rare Sumatran elephant died after eating pineapples spiked with poison by poachers in northwestern Indonesia, officials report. The giant 30-year-old male, its tusks ripped out for the ivory, was the ninth Sumatran elephant found dead in the region in the last three months. At least seven of them were... More »

MORE ABOUT:
crime • ivory • poison • wildlife • elephant • Sumatra • Sumatran elephant • poachers

 Sumatran 
 Tigers Kill 3 
 in Indonesia 

Illegal loggers were sleeping in Sumatran preservation

Feb 23, 09 3:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Sumatran tigers have killed six Indonesians in the last month, including three over the weekend. The latest victims include a father-son pair of illegal loggers who were attacked while they slept in a protected forest, AP reports. Sumatrans are the world's most endangered tiger subspecies. Poaching and forest destruction have... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • Indonesia • animal attack • Sumatra • tiger attack • Sumatran tiger

Endangered Tigers Fading Fast

Numbers plummet as WWF calls for quick action

Mar 12, 08 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The World Wildlife Fund has warned that the world's tigers are in grave danger of extinction, reports the BBC. Experts believe tiger numbers have fallen in half over the last 25 years to as few as 3,500 worldwide, the WWF said. The South China tiger and the Sumatran tiger... More »

MORE ABOUT:
endangered species • conservation • India • Sumatra • tigers • World Wildlife Fund • habitat • South China tiger • Sumatran tiger

Tsunami Province Returns to Life

Community rebounds three years after disaster

Dec 26, 07 8:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Three years after it was hit by a devastating tsumani, Aceh is slowly returning to normal, Time reports. The disaster killed more than 160,000 people in the Sumatran province and wiped out much of its infrastructure. In the years since, aid from all over the world has helped Aceh's... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • tsunami • aid • Sumatra • aid agencies • Aceh • disaster

New Quake Hits Sumatra; Tsunami Warning Issued

Tsunami threat rattles coastal residents

Sep 14, 07 1:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Another quake rocked Indonesia's Sumatra island early this morning and the nation's meteorology agency has issued a tsunami warning. The quake, between 6.6 and 6.9 magnitude, was the latest to hit the island since Wednesday's powerful 8.4 tremblor set off a series of aftershocks. The latest tsunami... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Indonesia • tsunami • Sumatra • tremor • aftershock

13 Stories


from our news partners