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Quakes Wreak Destruction in Indonesia, Samoa

An earthquake that originated in the sea off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, Sept. 30, has left nearly one thousand dead and thousands more missing in the rubble. The day before, an earthquake spawned a tsunami that flattened villages in the Samoas.

Oct. 6

An earthquake-damaged bridge in Pariaman district, West Sumatra province, Indonesia. Rescuers and aid workers were fanning out on Monday into the hills of Indonesia's Sumatra island, where hundreds of people were buried in landslides triggered by an earthquake that may have killed thousands.

Enny Nuraheni-Reuters

Oct. 6

Indonesians look on as heavy machines clear the rubble of a market flattened by last week's earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Dita Alangkara-AP

Oct. 6

Indonesian villagers gather to collect aid from Indonesian workers at Sicincin in the Sumatran district of Pariaman, nearly a week after the area around Padang was hit with a 7.6-magnitude earthquake. Indonesia called off the search for survivors in the quake-hit city of Padang on Oct. 5 as officials sought to contain the risk of disease caused by thousands of trapped bodies.

Manan Vatsyayana-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 5

A man prays outside his house, which was destroyed by a mudslide, in the earthquake-ravaged village of Tandikat in Indonesia's West Sumatra province.

Dylan Martinez-Reuters

Oct. 5

Tasi Tuuu, right, sweeps dirt from her mother's grave as an excavator digs a mass grave for nine of her relatives -- including seven children under the age of 5 -- in the tsunami devastated village of Lalomanu in Samoa. The ferocious waves were unleashed by a 8.0-magnitude undersea quake, which rattled the region on Sept. 29, leaving as many as 180 people dead in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

Torsten Blackwood-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 5

The Litia Sini Beach Resort lies in ruins in the tsunami devastated village of Lalomanu in Samoa.

Torsten Blackwood-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 5

A man salvages items from the ruins of his house after it was hit by an earthquake in Padang Pariaman in Indonesia's West Sumatra province. Rescuers and aid workers were fanning out on Monday into the hills of Indonesia's Sumatra island, where hundreds of people were buried in landslides triggered by an earthquake that may have killed thousands.

Crack Palinggi-REUTERS

Oct. 5

Visitors look at a list of quake victims at Lubuk Laweh village in Pariaman, West Sumatra, after an earthquake toppled buildings and caused massive landslides in the area late on Sept. 30. Indonesia called off the search for survivors in the quake-hit city of Padang as officials sought to contain the risk of disease caused by thousands of trapped bodies.

Bay Ismoyo-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 5

A student sits outside a makeshift classroom set up by the United Nations and attends a class in Padang, Indonesia. Hundreds of children went back to class Monday in schools set up in tents in Indonesia's earthquake zone to get counseling on the loss of loved ones and homes, as authorities tried to restore normalcy after the disaster.

Wong Maye-e-AP

Oct. 4

An earthquake damaged a road in Pariaman town of Indonesia's West Sumatra province. Rescue teams combing the rubble in the shattered Indonesian city of Padang said on Sunday there was little hope of finding more survivors of the massive earthquake.

Enny Nuraheni-REUTERS

Oct. 4

Damaged houses are seen in this aerial image of an area badly affected by an earthquake-triggered landslide in isolated Limo Koto Timur village, Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Dita Alangkara-AP

Oct. 4

Rescue workers point to the location of a body as they remove debris in an attempt to free a dead body from houses consumed by an earthquake-induced landslide in the village of Jumanak near Pariaman, Indonesia.

Daniel Berehulak-Getty Images

Oct. 4

Mourners lament the loss of family and friends as survivors gathered to pray for victims of a quake-triggered tsunami in Lalomanu, Samoa. Ferocious waves were unleashed by a 8.0 magnitude undersea quake, which rattled the region on Sept. 29, leaving as many as 180 people dead in Samoa, neighboring American Samoa and the Pacific island nation of Tonga.

Drina Thurston-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 3

Emergency workers gather around a body found along Samoa's south east coast after a deadly tsunami hit several South Pacific island nations on Tuesday.

Rick Rycroft-AP

Oct. 2

Children play volleyball beside a sign warning people of the dangers of a tsunami in the devastated town of Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa.

Torsten Blackwood-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 2

Residents brush away water from the floor of a church in the village of Poutasi in Apia, Samoa. Hundreds of survivors of the Samoas tsunami gathered at a church Sunday to mourn lost relatives, while pledging to rebuild their obliterated communities after a disaster that killed 177 people.

Phil Walter-Getty Images

Oct. 2

Survivors survey the damage to their home in Matatula village on the tsunami devastated coastline of American Samoa.

Torsten Blackwood-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 2

A tsunami wave embedded a car into a wall in the town of Pago Pago in American Samoa. The relief effort in the tsunami-stricken Samoas entered its fourth day Friday.

Rick Bowmer-AP

Oct. 4

Indonesian villagers cover their faces as rescue volunteers retrieve bodies from the ground in an area severely hit by landslides following Wednesday's earthquake in the Sumatran island village of Jumanak, in Padang Pariaman. Officials said hundreds of people were buried and presumed dead in the hillside villages in Padang Pariaman district on the western coast of Sumatra island following the 7.6-magnitude earthquake last week.

Kevin Frayer-AP

Oct. 4

Army and rescue workers carry a body from an earthquake destroyed building in central Padang, Indonesia's West Sumatra province.

Dylan Martinez-REUTERS

Oct. 4

Earthquake survivors carry food aid distributed by a police helicopter in isolated Limo Koto Timur village, Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia. With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides triggered by a huge earthquake obliterated four hamlets in western Indonesia.

Dita Alangkara-AP

Oct. 4

Rescue workers walk past the Ambacang Hotel, which collapsed in the earthquake-hit area of Padang, West Sumatra province. Rescue teams combing the rubble in the shattered Indonesian city of Padang said Sunday there was little hope of finding more survivors.

Nicky Loh-REUTERS

Oct. 3

Members of a Swiss rescue team rest as they evacuate victims from a collapsed hotel building in the Sumatran city of Padang. Whole villages in Indonesia's quake zone were found obliterated by landslides, while rescuers searched desperately for thousands of people believed to be still trapped in rubble.

Bay Ismoyo-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 3

An Indonesian boy, Mohammed Ansri, 2, who was injured in Wednesday's earthquake, shouts in pain in a makeshift hospital in the Sumatran Island city of Padang, Indonesia.

Kevin Frayer-AP

Oct. 1

Indonesian search and rescue team members carry a dead body during an evacuation in Padang on Thursday, nearly two days after the 7.6-magnitude earthquake devastated western Indonesia. The U.N. estimates that more than 1,000 were killed in Wednesday's quake.

Adek Berry-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 2

Ratna Kurnia Sari, an Indonesian woman, is pulled out from the rubble of a collapsed building in Padang on Friday after the powerful earthquake toppled buildings in the area a few days earlier.

Roslan Rahman-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 2

Villagers move their belongings from the ruins of their house in Pariaman, a coastal town in the West Sumatra province of Indonesia, as rescuers dug through the rubble of a school and other buildings. Few victims were found alive.

Crack Palinggi-Reuters

Oct. 2

Rescue workers search for survivors by the Ambacan Hotel, which collapsed in the earthquake-hit area of Padang on Friday. Although aid for survivors began trickling in on Friday, rescue efforts were hampered by power blackouts and a lack of heavy equipment to move masonry.

Nicky Loh-Reuters

Oct. 2

Rescuers attempt to retrieve survivors at the site of a collapsed building in the Sumatran city of Padang on Friday.

Roslan Rahman-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 2

Ratna Kurnia Sari is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Padang.

Roslan Rahman-AFP/Getty Images

Oct. 2

Earthquake survivors are treated in Dr. M. Djamil General Hospital on Friday.

Getty Images

Oct. 2

Members of a rescue team consisting of more than 100 people and 18 dogs arrive in Panang from Switzerland on Friday.

Wong Maye-e-AP

Oct. 2

U.S. soldiers and Indonesian air force officials load boxes of biscuits into a U.S. military plane in Jakarta ahead of its trip to Padang.

Supri-Reuters

Oct. 2

People in Padang line up for petroleum on Friday.

Adek Berry-AFP/Getty Images

Indonesians carry belongings as they flee their village hit by a quake-triggered landslide in Pariaman, northwest of Padang, Indonesia, on Friday.

Achmad Ibrahim-AP

Leausa Letoa, 34, and three of his four daughters sit under a tarpaulin in a banana plantation in the hills above the tsunami-destroyed village of Lalomanu on Samoa's southern coast. Letoa, whose house was destroyed, says he will not return to the coast for fear of another tsunami.

Tim Wimborne-Reuters

Rescue workers recover the body of a woman from debris in Lalomanu, Samoa, Thursday. Emergency workers gave up hope of finding more survivors from the Samoan tsunami as the confirmed death toll climbed to at least 160.

Torsten Blackwood-AFP/Getty Images

Family members break into tears as they recognize their dead relatives at the Dr. M. Djamil General Hospital in Padang. Indonesia said it feared thousands had died in a major earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble in a race to find survivors.

Bay Ismoyo-AFP/Getty Images

Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife Kristiani Yudhoyono talk to an earthquake victim at a makeshift tent in Padang in Indonesia's West Sumatra province.

Ho-Reuters

Sept. 30

A man carries an injured person in front of a collapsed university building during an evacuation in Padang in Indonesia's West Sumatra province.

Muhammad Fitrah-Reuters

Sept. 29

An aerial view of Hihifo on the western side of Tonga. A powerful quake in the South Pacific on Tuesday hurled massive tsunami waves at the shores of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, flattening villages and leaving scores dead or missing.

Pesi Fonua-AP

Sept. 30

People stand near a collapsed shopping mall in Padang, Indonesia. The quake came a day after a separate earthquake sparked a massive tsunami in the South Pacific.

Muhammad Fitrah-Reuters

Sept. 30

A man comforts a relative after an earthquake hit Padang, Sumatra island. The quake was so powerful that it caused buildings to sway hundreds of miles away in Malaysia and Singapore. In Padang, children screamed as thousands of frantic residents fled in cars and motorbikes, honking horns. They feared the quake would trigger a tsunami, but no giant waves struck.

Muhammad Fitrah-Reuters

Pago Pago village, in American Samoa, was devastated by massive tsunami waves that ravaged towns and killed at least 160 people in the South Pacific.

Ausage Fausia-AP

Sept. 29

A destroyed structure is seen among debris near a church following a tsunami in the village of Leone, American Samoa. A massive tsunami flattened Samoan villages and swept cars and people out to sea after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude between 8.0 and 8.3 struck around dawn Tuesday.

Raj Borsellino-Reuters

Sept. 29

Damaged vehicles are seen after a tsunami hit the village of Si'umu in Western Samoa. The quake that caused the tsunami was centered about 125 miles from Samoa, an island nation of 180,000 people located about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii.

Reuters

Sept. 29

Workers and residents in Fagatogo village, American Samoa, seek refuge on higher ground. The epicenter of the quake was about 120 miles from American Samoa, a U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people.

Fili Sagapolutele-AP

Sept. 30

A crowd gathers at the main North Shore beach of Takapuna to see the tsunami in Auckland, New Zealand. Authorities later canceled a Pacific tsunami warning on Wednesday after a huge sub-sea earthquake sent waves over the Samoa islands.

Nigel Marple-Reuters

Sept. 29

People walk through debris following a powerful quake in Pago Pago village, American Samoa.

Ausage Fausia-AP

Sept. 29

A car remains pushed up against a bridge after strong sea water from the tsunami filled a small stream in the village of Fagatogo, American Samoa. In the capital of Pago Pago, streets and fields were filled with ocean debris, mud, overturned cars and several boats as a massive cleanup effort continued into the night.

Fili Sagapolutele-AP

Sept. 29

The waterfront along Pago Pago, American Samoa, was damaged by the tsunami.

John Newton-AFP/Getty Images

Sept. 29

Residents walk past debris and wreckage after a tsunami hit the village of Si'umu in Western Samoa. The Samoa Red Cross estimated that about 15,000 people were affected by the tsunami.

Reuters

Sept. 29

A boat is stranded among wreckage after a tsunami hit the village of Si'umu in Western Samoa. The Samoan capital, Apia, was virtually deserted by afternoon, with schools and businesses closed.

Reuters

Sept. 29

Christopher Moore of NOAA views computer graphs at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, of the earthquake and tsunami that hit American Samoa. In Washington, President Obama declared American Samoa an official disaster area.

Hugh Gentry-Reuters

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This Story Tsunami in the Pacific: Relief on the Way, Latest News \| Akapo Akapo, senior meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Pago Pago, American Samoa, discusses the tsunami disaster, its aftermath, how survivors are coping and what the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other organizations are doing to help. Relief Supplies Arrive in American Samoa After Tsunami Scores Dead Following Samoan Tsunami 44: With Promises of Aid, President Sends American Samoa Condolences Raw Video: Quake Spawns Tsunami in Samoa Quakes Wreak Destruction in Indonesia, Samoa This Story In Sumatra, a Search for Quake Survivors Article \| JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 2 -- A powerful earthquake on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has left a vibrant port city heaped with corpses sealed in canary-yellow body bags as soldiers and rescue workers searched for life early Friday beneath rubble entombing possibly thousands of people. Quakes Wreak Destruction in Indonesia, Samoa Scores Killed in Samoas Tsunami		TOOLBOX E-Mail This Save/Share + Digg Facebook Reddit Twitter myspace del.icio.us NewsTrust Stumble It! COMMENT 0 Comments Your browser's settings may be preventing you from commenting on and viewing comments about this item. See instructions for fixing the problem. Discussion Policy CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post. Who's Blogging » Links to this gallery		More on washingtonpost.com • More Photo News » washingtonpost.com
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