Yakarta, Indonesia (CNN) – At least 34 people were killed and hundreds more were killed when a magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook the islands of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, according to the country’s disaster mitigation agency.
The epicenter of the storm, which took place at 1:28 a.m. in Yakarta, was located six kilometers north of Majene City, at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agencies of Indonesia.
In Majene, at least six people were killed, 637 were killed and 15,000 were displaced, according to the National Youth Council for Disaster Management (BNPB). In Mamuju’s area, 26 additional deaths are reported, said BNPB.
Miles of residents are staying in their high-security security clearance bus, which can be followed by up to 50 people and there are at least 300 houses in Majene, BNPB said.
Other editions also have serious graves given, including a military mandate office in Majene and the private hospital Mitra Manakara, in addition to hotels and government offices in the old area of Mamuju.
Lots of people are already in the throes of scrambling to get rid of clutter and scams.
“Our obstacle here is that we do not have a team equipped for rescuers”, said on local television Saidar Rahmanjaya, jefe of the Local Agency of Búsqueda and Rescate of Mamuju West Sulawesi.
Otherwise there was a lack of communication between the rescue teams, and that the local telephone networks were located after the earthquake, dijo. Aggregate that houses also places where the people need to rescite urgently.
Shalahuddin Salman, a resident of Mamuju, said that many people were stabbed because they were sleeping while walking the terrain, in the middle of the night.
“Salvamos to four members of the family, but one could not be evacuated,” the CNN team said when he and some others rescued a family from a debilitated family.
«(Está) atrapado dentro del edificio. We believe we are dead ».
Shalahuddin says the preoccupation is that many people are trapped inside the shelters of the private hospital Mitra Manakara, a piece of wood that has been damaged by the earthquake.
Thousands of people, miles of people who had been beaten by their superiors during the storm or another tsunami, said the West Sulawesi Police Commissioner, Syamsu Ridwan.
“Some of them go to great lengths to avoid the tsunami, although we have a confirmation that no tsunami will occur from this great earthquake,” he said.
The Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agencies of the Netherlands say the earthquake did not provoke a tsunami.
The earthquake also provoked a shortage of energy and three discharges from the ground to the length of the main square that connects Majene and Mamuju.
Hours ahead of the Jews, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in the same district giving various cases.
Located in the so-called “Anillo de Fuego” of the Pacific, Indonesia, a nation of high tectonic activity, is regularly hit by terrains.
In 2018, a devastating magnitude 6.2 earthquake and a posterior tsunami hit the city of Palu, in Sulawesi, killing miles of people.
Additional information from Reuters.