Restoring Palu
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
We have not fully learned the lesson from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Aceh 14 years ago. On September 27, Palu, Donggala and Sigi in Central Sulawesi were wrecked by the same disasters claiming more than 1,700 lives.
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On that fateful day, a series of tremors with the magnitude of 6 on Richter scale began at 1:59pm local time until the monstrous 7.44 quake finally hit at 5:02pm. The meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency issued a warning for 0.5 to 2-meter high tsunami waves predicted to make landfall 20 minutes later. The agency revoked the warning at 5:36pm based on the ‘observation of the official onsite’ who reported that the waves had e
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