Indonesia suffers from another earthquake by Milota Sidorova

The hurricane season, tornadoes, storms, floods, volcanos and erathquakes. It seems the year 2010 is extremely rich on natural disasters and catastrophes. They have filled our evening news and this time they take place literally all around the world. While we've been used to hear about tornadoes in Central U.S. region and Florida, some of them appear even in Germany. Central Europe suffers from floods, destroyed crops and heavy attack of mosquitos. The catstrophes covered the world map.The last earthquake hit Indonesian Yapan island, the location close to the western coasto of Papua province. Only about 40 second lasting earthquake hit with more than 7.1-magnitude and destr! oyed at least 150 buildings, killed two people and forced to remove thousands of people. Officials and weather scientists fear the earthquake may unleash tsunami. Yapan island is and island with the population of 70,000 and most of them had to be relocated to the higher ground, just to prevent more deaths from tsunami. Some of refugees escaped to nearby Biak island and Manokwari, the capital of Western Papua. Indonesia archipelago lies on long plate full of tensions and seismic faultlines, therefore the disasters take place more often in this region. The biggest catastrophe in 2004 killed at least 168,000 people alone. An eartquake of 9.3-magnitude antisipated tsunami. The pace of catastrophes is however, deadly. More than 1,000 people were killed during the 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the port of Padang, Western Sumatra last September. Another 7.8-magnitude repeated this April near northern Sumatra, but luckily caused no deaths or significant damages. Projections are not o! ptimistic, according scientists it is just a matter of time be! fore ano ther earthquake, tropic storm, flood or tsunami appear.

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by Milota Sidorova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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