A disaster official said that search efforts resumed on Sunday in the hardest-hit districts of Indonesia's Sumatra island, where a severe earthquake killed ten people, injured nearly 400, and displaced others, according to Gulf Today.
According to National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari, rescuers recovered two more bodies late Saturday from the wreckage of homes destroyed by the magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck West Sumatra region on Friday morning.
He stated six inpiduals perished in Pasaman and four in the neighbouring West Pasaman area. Rescuers were still looking for four residents who were feared to be buried behind tonnes of mud that had fallen from the nearby hills due to the earthquake.
The earthquake, whose shocks were felt as far away as Malaysia and Singapore, injured at least 388 people, with roughly 42 inpiduals still undergoing treatment for critical injuries, according to Muhari.
Over 13,000 people were forced to flee their homes for temporary shelters, especially in the devastated areas of Pasaman and West Pasaman districts, which were the closest to the epicentre, with over 1,400 houses and buildings damaged, according to Muhari.
Because of its location on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines that arcs the Pacific, Indonesia, a huge archipelago of 270 million people, is frequently plagued by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck in January 2021, killing at least 105 people and injuring approximately 6,500 more. It displaced more than 92,000 people in West Sulawesi province's Mamuju and Majene districts.
In 2004, a massive Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami killed over 230,000 people in a dozen nations, the majority of whom were in Indonesia.
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