Indonesia - Floods and landslide (BMKG, ADINet, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 07 May 2021)
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Heavy rain has been affecting northern Sumatra Island over the past 48 hours, causing floods and a landslide that have resulted in damage.
The ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet) reports, as of 7 May, around 3,000 affected people and 700 damaged houses across Labuhan Batu Utara Regency (North Sumatra Province) due to floods. In addition, one road was reported interrupted in the same Regency due to a landslide.
Over the next 48 hours, more heavy rain with locally very heavy rain is forecast over the whole Sumatra Island.
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Death toll rises to 10 after landslide at dam site in orangutan habitat
The death toll from a landslide at a hydropower construction site in northern Sumatra has risen to 10, with three people still missing and feared dead.
The disaster was the second landslide to hit the site in the Batang Toru forest in the space of five months.
Experts and activists have again questioned the project developer’s disaster mitigation plan, warning that the area could also be hit by an earthquake, with even more devastating consequences.
Conservationists also say the project threatens the only known habitat of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, which numbers fewer than 800 individuals.
A 5.7-earthquake rattles North Maluku s West Halmahera 3 hours ago
Ilustrasi BMKG (ANTARA) Bogor, W Java (ANTARA) - A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled West Halmahera District, North Maluku Province, on Wednesday morning but it did not potentially trigger tsunami.
The quake that occurred at around 05:59 a.m. Western Indonesia Time (WIB) was located at the coordinates at 1.53 north latitude and 127.19 east longitude, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
The quake s epicenter was located around 48 kilometers northwest of West Halmahera District at a depth of 133 kilometers, the agency revealed.
As of Wednesday morning, there were no immediate reports of casualties following the quake.
5.3-magnitude earthquake rocks Banda Aceh on Friday night
30th April 2021 4 hours ago
Illustration Jakarta (ANTARA) - A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Friday night jolted Banda Aceh, a city in the northernmost tip of Sumatra Island which had ever been hit by a deadly giant tsunami following an undersea megathrust earthquake in 2004.
The quake that occurred at around 11:43 p.m. was located at the coordinates at 5.14 north latitude and 94.46 east longitude, according to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
The quake s epicenter was located around 106 kilometers south west of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh Province, at a depth of 10 kilometers, the agency revealed.
Handout from Indonesia s National Disaster Management Agency
At least three people were killed and nine missing, officials said Friday, when torrential rains unleashed a landslide near the construction site of a controversial China-backed hydropower plant in Indonesia’s Sumatra region.
This is the second deadly landslide near the site of the U.S. $1.5 billion Batang Toru plant, which is being built in a rainforest where endangered Tapanuli orangutans live.
In Thursday’s landslide, piles of mud and debris spilled from a 50-meter (164 feet) high cliff and swept away locals and some workers below, said a senior official at the regional disaster mitigation agency (BPBD). The slide occurred after three consecutive days of heavy rain.