On Wednesday, a strong earthquake shook Southeast Asia, collapsing buildings, killing at least five people and injuring dozens in Indonesia. That tremor triggered small waves off the coastal town Padang in Sumatra, the island ravaged by the 2004 tsunami. The U.S. Geological Survey said today's tremor had a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 and was 201 kilometres from Bengkulu, a city on Sumatra. It occurred at a shallow depth of about 10 kilometres. In Indonesia's capital Jakarta, hundreds of kilometres from the epicentre, office workers streamed down stairwells as tall office buildings swayed. High-rises also were affected in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
My house is on the brink of collapse," said Kusmawati, 28, one of tens of thousands sleeping in tents or under the stars instead of returning indoors after Tuesday's quake. Indonesia, which straddles one of the world's most seismically violent zones, was hardest hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed 160,000 people on Sumatra's northern tip. Since then, two other deadly quakes have occurred, as well as landslides, floods and volcanic eruptions. "So far, we have recovered 19 bodies and hundreds of injured people," [Budi Sarwono] said in Solok. "The two hospitals are overwhelmed.
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Earthquakes don't kill. They don't create damage if there's nothing to damage," said Eric Calais, a Purdue University geophysicist studying the Haiti quake. The U.S. Geological Survey says eight Haitian cities and towns, including this capital of three million, suffered "violent" to "extreme" shaking in last month's 7-magnitude quake, which Haiti's government estimates killed some 220,000 people and left about 1.2 million homeless. Chile's death toll was in the hundreds. By contrast, no Chilean urban area suffered more than "severe" shaking Saturday-- the third most serious level -- in its 8.8-magnitude disaster, by USGS measure. The quake was centred 325 kilometres away from Chile's capital and largest city, Santiago.
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Like, for instance, when you're watching the CBC/Doc Zone dooms-umentary Shock/Wave: Surviving North America's Biggest Disaster (tonight at 8 on CBC), which predicts that all those idyllic oceanside communities along the continent's West Coast will someday be flattened and washed away by a tsunami the size of the one that devastated Indonesia in December 2004. It'll dwarf 1906 (the infamous San Francisco earthquake)," marine biologist Chris Goldfinger says of the undersea earthquake and subsequent wave surge that would cause the promised coastal calamity. "And (Hurricane) Katrina. It will be many dozens of Katrinas, all at once. "If we don't start talking about it, if we don't start thinking about it, we're certainly never going to be prepared for it," says oceanographer Eddie Bernard.
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People ran to high ground. Houses and buildings were badly damaged," said Kasmiati, who lives on the coast near the quake's epicentre. "I want to know what happened to my sister and her husband," said Fitra Jaya, who owns a house in downtown Padang and was in Jakarta when the quake hit. "I was scared. I was shocked," said Didi Afuafi, 28, who was on a bus when the waves came ashore on American Samoa. "All the people on the bus were screaming, crying and trying to call their homes. We couldn't get on cellphones. The phones just died on us. It was just crazy.
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