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The eathquake which struck Sumatra , Indonesia at 17:16 on the 30th Sept measured 7.6 on the Richter scale. . Priyadi Kardono, spokesman for the national disaster agency, also said that about 500 houses had collapsed and 1000s ofpeople were buried, according to officials in the area. The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Padang, West Sumatra, on Wednesday afternoon. Initially thousands of people were believed trapped under collapsed houses and other buildings, but with communications lines down, officials have not been able to get details of casualties Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie said authorities should prepare for the worst. The damage could be on a par with that caused by a 2006 quake in the central Java city of Yogyakarta that killed 5,000 people and damaged 150,000 homes, he said. Padang, capital of Indonesia's West Sumatra province, sits on one of the world's most active fault lines along the "Ring of Fire" where the Indo-Australia plate grinds against the Eurasia plate to create regular tremors and sometimes quakes.
Khalsa Aid has mobilised its local volunteers in Sumatara to provide aid and relief to the many thousands of victims of this deadly quake.A disaster relief volunteer from the UK will coordinate the relief mission. The Khalsa Aid volunteers will assess the needs of the survivors and provide aid accordingly.
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