BREAKING NEWS
Tsunami hit Tabuyung village, Madina County, North Sumatra Province.
Ady Susanto, YB6VK, who is a hamradio operator from North Sumatra Province, reported that the Indonesian Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ORARI-ARES) of District 6/Northern Sumatra received a late emergency call from Madina (Mandailing Natal) County, North Sumatra Province. [Many coffee drinkers in the world will always remember Sumatra Mandailing coffee]. The ORARI-ARES deployed its member Syawaluddin Lubis, YC6ROD, to the disaster area to setup YB6ZAL zulu (emergency) station on 4-6-2005 using battery power - after learned that there was no electricity and public communication available in the remote area.
Since 4-6-2005 Lubis has been collecting the data of the casualties. On Thursday 4-7-2005 at 20:30 local time Lubis was just able to report from YB6ZAL station to the ORARI-ARES command post in Medan and other zulu stations through 145.260MHz VHF linked repeater in Northern Sumatra. Lubis reported that according to some local refugees their coastal village - Tabuyung, Batang Gadis District, Madina County, North Sumatra Province - swept by 18 feet (6 meters) high sea water on Tuesday 4-29-2005 early morning. This tsunami generated by March 28 8.7 magnitude under water quake occurred on 4-28-2005 at 23:00 local time and located near Banyak islands that is between Nias island and Simeulue island off west coast of Sumatra island. This quake has also destroyed large parts of Nias island and its surrounding islands.
Lubis said that as a result of the tsunami one village resident has died, 411 families lost their houses, 30 families experienced severely damaged houses, 71 families still have their undamaged houses. Moreover, 632 family refugees have been living in the tents on the Kennam company's property located about 4 miles away from Tabuyung village. The ORARI-ARES command post contacted the authorities and several disaster aid relief task forces in the region to save the survivors and recover the village.
W.Purwinto, AB2QV.
DX Emergency Support
Syracuse, New York.
http://www.qsl.net/ab2qv/nias.htm
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