29 March 2005

Aftermath

Indonesians ride motorcycles to higher ground Tuesday, March 29, 2005, fearing a tsunami after an earthquake shook the region.The magnitude 8.7 quake struck at 11:09 p.m. local time (11:09 a.m. ET) on Monday and was centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

A family in Sri Lanka that survived the December 26 earthquake and tsunami listens to a radio for updates Tuesday at a temporary shelter in Colombo.

Geophysicist Al Duba looks at a seismograph Monday at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The seismograph records the shaking of the ground measured at stations around the world.

Residents evacuate high-rise apartment buildings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after the earthquake Monday night.

Kerry Sieh, a geology professor at the California Institute of Technology, speaks at a news conference Monday afternoon in Los Angeles. Sieh said Monday night's quake was the "same type of earthquake" that struck southern Asia on December 26, 2004.


Residents of Hadyai, Thailand, move into the streets Monday night, March 28, 2005, after an earthquake shook the region.

1 comment:

  1. Larling ah, remind you hor, today is Tuesday hor? And earthquake blogs getting boring liao. Life goes on.

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