Gulfnews.com, 07/03/2007 12:00 AM (UAE)
Timeline: A string of disasters in Indonesia
Reuters
A chronology of a string of disasters in Indonesia.
December 26, 2004: Nearly 132,000 are killed and more than 37,000 listed as missing
after a 9.15 magnitude earthquake off Indonesia and a tsunami triggered by it in the
Indian Ocean region.
March 28, 2005: Nearly 1,000 believed killed after a quake of 8.7 hits the coast of
Sumatra.
July 20, 2005: Indonesia confirms first deaths from bird flu. To date the disease has
killed 63 people in Indonesia, the world's highest bird flu death toll.
September 1, 2005: Landslide on island of Sumatra kills 14 and leaves more than a
dozen missing.
September 5, 2005: Domestic airliner operated by local carrier Mandala Airlines
crashes in residential area of Indonesia's third biggest city Medan, killing 102 aboard
and 47 local residents in an inferno on the ground.
May 27, 2006: Earthquake rocks area around ancient royal city of Yogyakarta killing
at least 5,000 and destroying or damaging 150,000 homes.
July 17, 2006: A tsunami after a 7.7 magnitude quake in West Java province kills at
least 550 people. At least 54,000 people are displaced.
December 30, 2006: A ferry with at least 600 aboard sinks during a stormy night
voyage.
January 1, 2007: An Adam Air passenger plane flying from Surabaya to Manado with
102 people aboard crashes into the sea off the west coast of Sulawesi.
February 22, 2007: At least 42 people are killed when fire breaks out aboard a ferry
which was heading from Jakarta to Bangka island off Sumatra. |
