Strong earthquake strikes again! A large number of people in Indonesia’s strong earthquake and tsunami disaster may not have been discovered.
CCTV News:According to the official measurement by China Seismological Network, at 7: 59 this morning, Beijing time, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Songba Island, Indonesia (10.47 degrees south latitude and 120.25 degrees east longitude) with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. This is another strong earthquake after Indonesia’s strong earthquake on September 28, which triggered a tsunami.
According to the latest statistics released by the spokesman of Indonesia’s National Disaster Relief Agency on October 1st, the earthquake and the tsunami caused by the earthquake have killed at least 844 people. Indonesia’s National Disaster Relief Agency said it would try its best to speed up the search and rescue and find survivors.
On October 1st, search and rescue personnel continued their search and rescue work in Palu, the hardest hit area, and found more bodies of victims under the rubble. Officials said that about 100 of the bodies that have been found so far have not been identified, and officials are stepping up their work to complete the identification of all the bodies before burial.

In the evening, rescuers also rescued a 38-year-old male survivor from the rubble. The local TV station broadcast the picture of the man rescued from the ruins by the search and rescue personnel of the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Bureau. The man was then taken to an ambulance for treatment. As there are still remote areas cut off from the outside world that cannot confirm the casualties, the Indonesian government is worried that there are still a large number of people who have not yet been discovered.

Soetopo, spokesman of Indonesian National Disaster Relief Agency, said at a news conference on October 1st that the search and rescue work is facing many difficulties, including power shortage, communication obstruction, shortage of heavy machinery and manpower. He said that the disaster situation in Palu area is complicated. In addition to people being buried when houses collapsed in the earthquake, in some areas, buildings were washed away and buried by a large amount of mud due to soil liquefaction caused by strong earthquakes. In other areas, the ground swelled and then collapsed, trapping many people in the ruins of houses. These have increased the difficulty of search and rescue.
The first task of rescue: prevention and control of epidemic situation and restoration of electricity
Indonesia’s National Disaster Relief Agency also said on October 1st that in addition to searching for survivors and victims, the current focus of rescue work is to prevent the outbreak of epidemic and restore power supply in the disaster areas. A spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster Relief Agency said that the local government is stepping up its search for collapsed houses and public facilities to find possible survivors. In addition, in order to restore power facilities as soon as possible, the Indonesian government also urgently dispatched 4000 liters of fuel from neighboring cities to the disaster area to solve the problem of fuel shortage.

A spokesman for Indonesia’s National Disaster Relief Agency said that Palu had the largest number of casualties, and as the search and rescue work continues, the number of victims found may further increase.
The victims returned home to clean up their belongings, and the disaster area was devastated.
On October 1st, some victims in Palu returned to the place where they once lived, looking for the things left at home, and what caught their eyes was the devastation left by the disaster.

On the same day, some local people rode motorcycles through rugged paths and streets littered with various wrecks, and along the way, they could see that huge waves piled up their cars when the tsunami struck. Many people’s houses have completely turned into ruins, and they are digging on the ruins, trying to find some useful items.
In the suburb of Palu, far from the beach, the earthquake and the subsequent soil liquefaction caused many houses to be swallowed up by the earth. One of the victims told the story of his narrow escape: "My house moved about 600 meters from here to there. The land has been churning violently, and then it suddenly rises, and somehow the soil rises and buries all the houses. I thought to myself, if this is my death, what can I do? I can only pray that a piece of wood came, and I grasped it tightly and was brought here by it … …”

