Reports

1. HIGHLIGHTS a. The cascading events on 28 September 2018 are characteristic of a catastrophic disaster scenario where major earthquakes triggered near-field tsunami, major liquefaction, and landslides, which resulted in direct damages, impacts, and constrained humanitarian access…

Communities have been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami which Disaster Response Officials believe to have killed over 1300 people in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. Families now face growing health risks as the full scale of the…

October 3rd, 2018 ― Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has responded to the 7.7-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Sulawesi island, central Indonesia. Just following the disaster, the Disaster Management Information Center (DMIC) was activated to…

PALU (October 1, 2018) —Sukma was at work at a water company on Friday when the ground shook. After the rumbling stopped and she realized she was unhurt, she immediately thought of her youngest child, 14-year-old…

Background On Sep 28, 2018, a 7.4 Richter scale devastated Palu, Central Sulawesi, which induced tsunami as high as 6 meters (20 feet) in Palu and surrounding area. The physical geography of Palu creates a disadvantage as…

Joint media release The Hon Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister Senator the Hon. Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs The Hon Christopher Pyne MP, Minister for Defence Australia will provide an additional $5 million package of humanitarian assistance to support…

OCTOBER 1, 2018 | 5:00 P.M. SPRINGFIELD, MO.More than 48,000 people are displaced and more than 800 are dead after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and a devastating tsunami hit Indonesia this weekend. Convoy of Hope is sending…

(excerpt) Indonesia The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs today said that the Indonesian Government has confirmed that 1,234 people have died following the earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi last week. Some 100 people are still…

(New York, 2 October 2018): Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Lowcock, announced today an allocation of $15 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to bolster relief assistance for people affected…

Plan International’s emergency response team are reporting scenes of widespread devastation in Sulawesi with locals fearing another tsunami as aftershocks continue. Plan International’s emergency response team is on the ground in Palu and Donggala to carry out…