YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - At least 266 people were killed and thousands injured when an earthquake shook Indonesia's ancient royal city and tourist centre Yogyakarta and the surrounding area early on Saturday, hospital staff said.
Yogyakarta is on Indonesia's main island of Java and near Mount Merapi, a volcano that has been on top alert for a major eruption this month.
A vulcanologist in Yogyakarta said the quake was not caused by the volcano, but Merapi's activity increased after the shock.
"...after the earthquake there were more clouds coming out of the (volcano) crater," Subandrio, head of the Merapi section at the Centre for Vulcanological Research and Technology Department, told Reuters.
The epicentre of the quake -- which happened just before 6 a.m. (2300 GMT) and had a magnitude of 6.2, according to the U.S. Geological Survey -- was offshore. Jakarta earthquake centre official Fauzi said it did not cause a tsunami.
Yogyakarta is about 25 km (16 miles) north of the Indian Ocean coast and 440 km (275 miles) east of Jakarta.
Officials at six hospitals in and around Yogyakarta gave figures for the dead they had handled totalling 266.
The victims had generally suffered head injuries and broken bones from collapsing buildings.
More than 2,700 people have been killed and thousands more injured by a strong earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Java, officials have said.
The quake, measuring 6.2, flattened buildings in a densely-populated area south of the city of Yogyakarta, near the southern coast of Java.
Witnesses said people fled as their homes collapsed around them, after the quake struck early in the morning.
Electricity and communications across the city were also down, police said.
At least 2,900 people have been injured, and many more are still thought to be trapped under rubble and collapsed buildings.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the military to help evacuate victims, and plans to visit the area later on Saturday.
Yogyakarta's airport was closed. Local media said the runway had cracked and part of a roof had caved in.
Yogyakarta is near the Mount Merapi volcano, which threatened to erupt earlier this month, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated.
The earthquake is not thought to be caused by the volcano, but there are reports of heightened activity in its vicinity.
Officials said that although the area affected was coastal there was no tsunami resulting from the quake.
'Concrete chunks'
The quake hit at 0554 local time (2253 GMT Friday), around 25km (15 miles) south of the city of Yogyakarta, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Yogyakarta, Indonesia's ancient royal capital and one of its biggest cities, is about 440km (275 miles) south-east of the capital, Jakarta.
The earthquake was felt to be massive - larger than the locals here say they've felt in their lives," said Brook Weisman-Ross, regional disaster co-ordinator for Plan International children's charity in Java.
"I was shaken from my bed... As furniture was falling, concrete chunks started falling from my hotel room as people were running out in panic in their bedclothes," he told the BBC.
He said there was extensive damage across the city and that many of the smaller, older houses had collapsed.
But a wide swathe south of the city, in the Bantul and Kulonprogo regions, appears to be the worst hit.
The BBC's Orlando Guzman in Yogyakarta says every other house on the main road south of the city is either flattened or seriously damaged.
may Allah subhana wa Ta'ala grant them all patience.
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Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and expiate from us our evil deeds, and make us die (in the state of righteousness) along with Al-Abrar
and the number of deaths has passed 3000
inna lillahi wa inna ilayhee rajioun
Our Lord! Verily, we have heard the call of one calling to Faith: 'Believe in your Lord,' and we have believed.
Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and expiate from us our evil deeds, and make us die (in the state of righteousness) along with Al-Abrar
That's terrible!
Indonesia is such a troubled country!
Not only does it have a history of political unrest and civil war, it is probably still recovering from the effects of the tsunami 18 months ago.
My prayers are with these people in their suffering! :'(
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I really wonder whether 4000 people have really died, I know its a contraversial thing to say but sometimes I think people boost the numbers so they can get extra aid, what does everyone else think?, does anyone really know in remote areas how many people were living there in the first place youve just got to take the word of village people, not just this disaster but others too does anybody else think that this is a scam, I'm not saying the quake never happened but just like people abuse the welfare system I think this has become a way to take advantage of international aid.
During the south east asia earthquake alot of our gurdwara were more inclined to send clothes or tents, rather than money cos you dont know whether you can trust the governments, they could just use the money to buy bombs and warplanes, does any of the money go accounted for?
I really wonder whether 4000 people have really died, I know its a contraversial thing to say but sometimes I think people boost the numbers so they can get extra aid, what does everyone else think?, does anyone really know in remote areas how many people were living there in the first place youve just got to take the word of village people, not just this disaster but others too does anybody else think that this is a scam, I'm not saying the quake never happened but just like people abuse the welfare system I think this has become a way to take advantage of international aid.
During the south east asia earthquake alot of our gurdwara were more inclined to send clothes or tents, rather than money cos you dont know whether you can trust the governments, they could just use the money to buy bombs and warplanes, does any of the money go accounted for?
No offence,
ISDhillon
Indonesia, especially Java is heavily populated area (they have to transmigrate Javanese to other Islands like Borneo, Sumatra and Irian Jaya (plus 2,000,000 of them are here, in Malaysia) because over-population. It might be true.
Yupp...will of God - to remind people Who is He. Lots of mishaps in Indonesia... they have lots to think of - why?
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un. Yes, earthquake in Yogyakarta was about 5,9 skala reichter masha Allah. Not as strong as Aceh which caused thunamy but Allah Azza wa Jalla showed His power once more to remind His human who are lost and forget about day here after. And now there are more than 4000 victims, and its increasing, still increasing, I believe there will be more. I see their sad face, when a father cried for his daughter who was buried under the ruins of houses and walls. And he had found his daughters dead body has stiff. And its been covered by a bodybag. He cried to see his daughter and he holded and cried, yaa Allah. Shadaqa Rasulullah shalallahu alaihi wasallam who ver told us in his hadith, that if Allah want to punish some people, then He will give them a disaster which will hit everybody in there, all peple no matter theyre right or bad, no matter they are ahlussunnah or syirk people. Masha Allah. And the earthquake happened around 5 oclock in the morning, right after subh. So how luckily people who went to masjid for subh prayer, theyre save. Cause most of them who are buried under the ruins are them who stayed at their house masha Allah. Bro and sis, al maut come with no sign, with no warning, it will just come and take you away. So be prepared.
And I encourage you all to help your bros and sis there, they crying and suffering, they have only a little food to eat, they have lost their houses, they have lost their family, some of them have no one cause all their family are burried. Please help them with all that you can give, theyre our brothes and sisters, theyre muslimin. Yaa Allah, make them syahid yaa Allah, cause your habibi -shalallahu alaihi wasallam- said that someone who dead cause of falling thing is syahid, amin.
JAKARTA, May 29 (Bernama) -- The death toll in the earthquake that hit Yogyakarta last Saturday has risen to 5,135 Monday afternoon, up from the 3,700 figure reported to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday evening.
Based on statistics available at the Yogyakarta Disaster Handling Centre, the quake, which was registered there as 5.9 on the Richter scale, had also destroyed more than 45,000 houses and other buildings and left more than 200,000 people homeless.
Several foreign geological agencies had recorded the intensity of the quake, which struck at 5.55 am on Saturday, at 6.2 on the Richter scale.
In the two days following the quake, more than 500 aftershocks were recorded by the Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysical Agency (BMG), out of which about 10 were felt by the people.
Local media reported that most of the quake victims putting up in temporary tents were in dire need of food, clean drinking water, mats and bedding, rainproof tents, milk powder for infants, and clothes.
Indonesian authorities have begun to channel immediate aid to the victims while relief supplies from several countries have begun to arrive.
Volunteers from several provinces had also descended on Yogyakarta to help police and soldiers in the search and rescue of people suspected to be trapped in the rubble of houses and other buildings.
It is believed that many people could not escape from their dwellings before their collapse as they were sleeping when the quake hit.
A resident of Yogyakarta, Agus Priyanto, told Bernama that the people had been preparing themselves for the eventual eruption of Mt Merapi, which has been spewing ash and lava lately, and had not given a thought to a possible earthquake.
"We were also not told about any possible earthquake because the authorities themselves did not have any indication of it," he said by telephone.
And there are two Islamic ma'had also destroyed by the earthquake masha Allah. Their name is ma'had jamilurrahman and ma'had Bin Bazz. And I have sent messages to one of my ustadh there and there was no reply. Im so worry, please pray for him guys and all muslimin in there. Yaa Allah, please save him and his family, and all muslimin there, strength their iman yaa Allah after this disaster. You didnt give muslims in yogyakarta so they will leave you, but you give this all so theyre all can be reminded and back to the right path. And exchange what they lost with something better, amin.
But disaster has gone there and only some following earthauqke with a small scale often happen. I hope its a lesson to them, to all of us. Cause I admit there are a lot of syirk happen in there, where people believe of idols, believe of some things that the believe can give manfaat to them. They have done a lot of syirk and bid'ah. Such as when they investigated the work of merapi mountain which they believe will explode soon -bi idhnillah-. So there was a man called mbah murejo (or whatever his name, I forget) went to the foot of the mountain. And he did some of syirk things and he said a lot of syirk things, he believed by going there and did some spiritual tareqah will make the mountain silent, astaghfirullah. Human are so dumb sometimes, and yes by coincidence the mountain just remind coughing with a hot cloud but then come this earthquake and took alot of lifes. And houses destroyed flat to the ground.
I hope it wont be like tsunamy in aceh anymore. After the tsunamy then they gave somekinda sacrifice to the sea, astaghfirullah. Why cant they see? Lets just learn from this, and do dawah as we can and must be with ilm. Allahu A'lam.
Im so sad it also destroyed our salafy ma'had. I just remember someone corrected me when I ever said "If theres a lot of ahlussunnah in one area, Im sure there will be no disaster cause Allah love ahlussunnah", and I was corrected "youre wrong, cause a disaster given by Allah hit everythigng in the area. No matter theyre ahlussunnah or not", and then she's right, masha Allah and once again she's right. Cause Rasulullah told us about this also, and allllll people no matter thyre good or bad will be dead and they will be raised in yaumul qiyamah with their intention, shadaqollahul azhim wa shodaqo Rasuluhul kareem Muhammad shalallahu alaihi wasallam. And we will never know when the disaster will come, so be prepared brothers, prepare everything you can get. And may Allah gather us in jannah firdaus, amin.
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May allah help all the quake victims and may allah give strength to those people who have lost there relatives and suffered heavy loses.
Allah alone is sufficient for me.
I am a Muslim I say, "laa ilaaha illallaah Muhammadur-Rasoolullaah." There is none worthy of worship except Allaah, Muhummad is the Messenger of Allaah.
JAKARTA, May 28 (Bernama) - Two Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) Charlie aircraft today flew home 75 Malaysian students from Yogyakarta, which was badly damaged by an earthquake yesterday.
The students left in two batches with 50 students in the first followed by another 25, said the Malaysian Embassy's education attache Rosli Sakimin.
He said the students, who were studying at the Gadjah Mada University, had informed their families of their flight home and they would return to resume their studies when the situation improved.
The two RMAF aircraft had arrived in Solo near Jogyakarta this morning with members of the Special Malaysia Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Smart) and the Malaysian media.
The Smart team and the Malaysian journalists will make their way to Yogyakarta and other districts of Central Java to help search for survivors.
Rosli said the embassy's officials had met 352 other Malaysian students, mostly studying medicine at the university, who decided to remain.
"We will inform the university about the students who chose to go home and apply for their leave. But they will have to make their own arrangement to come back to resume their studies," he said when contacted in Solo.
He said all the Malaysian students in Yogyakarta were safe and they had contacted the embassy.
"Some of them have gone to Jakarta and Bandung for a holiday," he said.
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