Death and displacement figures from Indonesia where the September 28/29th earthquake took place in its Palu province are rising. Some aid agencies and Indonesian national emergency institutions are estimating over 1000 persons already dead while entire communities are displaced. As usual in such circumstances, the problem is always the speed of getting relief materials to the most affected communities.
The US based The Atlantic has published some of what can be considered the most incredible pictures of damage caused by the earth behaviour. Nigeria is understood not to be within plausible axis of earthquake but in a world of threats without homeland, how prepared is the country to cope with complex emergencies?
Destruction is the name of it all:
In this Darwin Fatir / Antara Foto Agency / Reuters picture, it is people searching through debris in a residential area
Someone is exploring recovery of victims from the ruins of what used to a ten-storey hotel in Palu, September 30, 2018, The hotel fell to the earthquake. (Photo credit : BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Immediately below, the suffering begins as people have to struggle for survival or to cope:
Crying while waiting for evacuation
Here, it is queuing for fuel
