Strong quake strikes Banda Acheh, dozens injured

Dozens of people have been injured after a 6.2-magnitude quake jolted Aceh Province in the northern tip of Sumatra Island of Indonesia today, said local officials.

"There are dozens of people wounded here," Fauzi, head of local disaster management and mitigation agency in Benermeriah of Aceh Province, told China's Xinhua news agency via telephone from Benermeriah.

The quake struck at 14:37 p.m. Jakarta time (0737 GMT) with epicenter at 35 km southwest Benermeriah district of the province and with a depth of 10 km, Subagio, an official of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency told Xinhua by phone.

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Experiencing an earthquake

Malaysians recall their moments as they felt tremors jolt their homes and offices during the 8.7 earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia.

Thumbs up for swift move

Onlookers risking their lives by going near the beach despite the tsunami warning in Kuala Muda, Kedah.

WELL PREPARED: Kota Kuala Muda villagers praise police and Civil Defence Dept

EXCEPT for a few hiccups, residents of Kota Kuala Muda gave the thumbs-up to government agencies which sprung into action when tremors shook the fishing settlement on Wednesday.

Siti Minah Mahmud said she was very thankful to members of the Civil Defence Department for moving her bedridden husband to safer grounds swiftly.

"I panicked when the tremors hit our village and the first thing that came to mind was my husband's safety," said the 62-year-old housewife, whose house in Kampung Kepala Jalan near here was among five villages flattened by tidal waves when a tsunami, caused by a 9-magnitude earthquake off Sumatera, hit the settlement on Dec 26, 2004.

Tremors jolt Penangites - Indonesia hit by 6.6 Richter earthquake

Hundreds of residents from high-rise buildings ran out of their homes following tremors after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake jolted the western Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Among the affected people here were those living in Weld Quay, Macallum Street, Tanjung Bungah, Tanjung Tokong, Gurney Drive, Lintang P. Ramlee, Sungai Nibong and Bandar Baru Air Itam.

Penang Fire and Rescue Department assistant director (operations) Mohd Razam Taja Rahim said the department received 16 reports about the tremors.

Two quakes hit Sumatra, tremors felt in S'gor, Malacca, Perak, NS, Putrajaya, KL

Firemen carrying out checks at several government buildings in Putrajaya after the tremors Tuesday


Two earthquakes hit northern Sumatra Tuesday morning sending tremors that were felt in Selangor, Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Perak, Putrajaya and here.

The first 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Sumatra at 8.08am and the second 5.6-magnitude quake hit the same place at 11.01am Tuesday.


Calls came pouring in from Selayang Hospital, KLCC building and other highrises in the Klang Valley as many residents ran out of their buildings

However, there was no tsunami threat, said the Malaysian Meteorological Department.

Information about damage or casualties has yet to come in.

Sumatran quake tremors felt in Malaysia

An earthquake of 5.5 magnitude on the Richter scale struck northern Sumatra, Indonesia today, and tremors were felt in as far as the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

A Malaysian Meteorological Department statement said the quake occurred at 8.08am (Malaysian time) and its epicentre was 330km southwest of Klang, Selangor. Tremors were reportedly felt in Malacca, Selangor and southern Perak

The Fire and Rescue Department in Shah Alam, when contacted, said it received a call regarding a tremor at the Selangor State Secretariat building at 8.29am

Girl guides lend a helping hand

The Prime Minister's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor on Friday launched the Girl Guides-Maybank Disaster Fund to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Five more Malaysians missing in Christchurch earthquake

SEARCH CONTINUES: Rescue workers continuing their hunt for survivors at the Christchurch Cathedral this morning

Five more Malaysians. including a family-of-four, are the latest reported missing following the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday.

Malaysian operations room chief Ayauf Bachi in the city told The Malay Mail this morning that the fifth missing
person was a man, bringing the total to six.

The first Malaysian reported missing was a woman from Sarawak in her 30s who worked at a private company in Christchurch.

Bachi said efforts were being made to visit areas where the five Malaysians were believed to have been to in order to gather more information.

“We are going to Avonside, an eastern suburb in Christchurch, where the family-of-four and the man were believed to have travelled to before the quake.”

Today in Pictures Najib visit turkey-New Zealand earthquake - BN Merlimau candidate out - Gaddafi order deadly crackdown on protestors.

MALAYSIAN INVESTMENT IN TURKEY: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is briefed by Malaysia Airport Holdings Bhd managing director Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad (right) during a visit to the Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in Turkey, which is managed by the Malaysian company. Bernama Photo.



Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, accompanied by Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, greet Barisan Nasional supporters at the ceremony to announce that Roslan Ahmad would be BN's candidate for the Merlimau by-election. Pix by Rasul Azli Samad.


PM VISIT TO TURKEY: While Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the capital Ankara yesterday (REUTERS/Umit Bektas), his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor visited the Sevgi Evleri ve Cocuk Yuvasi (House of Love and Childcare Center) orphanage.Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is welcomed by his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the capital Ankara during his three-day official visit to Turkey



LIKE A WAR ZONE: From top: An aerial view of emergency services people working at the ruined CTV building in central Christchurch, New Zealand. Search teams used their bare hands, dogs, heavy cranes and earth movers to pull survivors from the rubble of Tuesday's powerful earthquake. (AP Photo/Sarah Ivey); Firemen hosing down the rubble of the CTV building (REUTERS/Simon Baker); Emergency services search the rubble for survivors under the collapsed CTV building in Christchurch's business district.From top: The Timeball Station is seen to be badly damaged, a day after the 6.3-magnitude earthquake in the township of Lyttelton near Christchurch, New Zealand. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Sarah Ivey); The remains of a destroyed house lies in ruins (AFP Photo/Marty Melville); Badly-damaged structures surrounded in rubble



THESE BUILDINGS FELL LIKE HOUSE-OF-CARDS... (TOP PIX) Rescue workers look for victims on the collapsed Pyne Gould Guinness building where people remain trapped after a 6.3 earthquake hit the city of Christchurch on February 22, 2011. Rescuers dug frantically for bodies and people trapped after the major 6.3 earthquake caused "multiple" deaths in New Zealand's second city of Christchurch, crushing buildings and vehicles. (MIDDLE PIX) The city's iconic Christchurch Cathedral in the central part of the city is pictured with its spire in ruins after the quake. (BOTTOM PIX) This overhead view shows badly damaged buildings in the centre of the city.






RIDICULOUS GETUPS WERE HIS FORTE... In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi attends a wreath laying ceremony in the Belarus capital Minsk. Gadhafi's security forces unleashed the most deadly crackdown of any Arab country against the wave of protests sweeping the region, with reports Monday Feb. 22, 2011 that demonstrators were being fired at from helicopters and warplanes. After seven days of protests and deadly clashes in Libya's eastern cities, the eruption of turmoil in the capital, Tripoli, sharply escalated the challenge to Gadhafi.

Quake tremors rock Penang

No quiet Sunday: Penangites standing outside a shopping complex after feeling tremors from an earthquake off Aceh province in Sumatra yesterday.

Tremors from an earthquake that struck off Aceh province in Sumatra rocked several parts of the island as Penangites were enjoying a leisurely Sunday.

The shocks lasting several seconds caused anxious callers to deluge with enquiries.