Earthquake Hits Indonesia And Made A Disastrous Phenomenon
A 6.4 magnitude quake hit off the coast of Aceh province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra at 5:03 a.m. (2203 GMT Tuesday) location was centered about 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of Reuleut, a town in northern Aceh, at a depth of 17.2 kilometers (11 miles). Sulaiman, the local disaster officer confirmed that Dozens of people were reported dead and several mosques in Pidie Jaya fall down as well as stores, houses, and other infrastructures.
The district chief of Pidie Jaya Aiyub Abbas said that on the district alone, there was a total of 25 people killed nearest to the offshore tremor's epicenter and some were dead in the next district, Bireuen. About 20 people were under medication at the health center in Bireuen and one person was transferred to a hospital because of bone fracture and a head injury.
According to Suyatno, the head of the Aceh's search and rescue agency, that there were three excavators who were struggling to get rid of the fragments from shop houses because there were three people were believed buried. Heavy equipment has been put up for the effort to search for possible survivors in the area. A hysterical rescue endeavor with the cooperation of the villagers, soldiers and police were on track in Meureudu, a relentlessly distressed town in Pidie Jaya locality.
Indonesia, being the largest archipelago, is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. Regarding this earthquake, The Indonesia's Climate, Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said that the quake the quake was not strong enough and has no potential to trigger or lead to a tsunami however the tremor was relatively and adequately powerful to destroy hundreds of buildings and can ruin villages in an instant.
