Powerful earthquake hits Indonesia

A soldier and volunteers search for victims under the ruins of a collapsed four-storey building in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island October 1, 2009. Officials estimate that thousands are trapped under rubble and possibly dead after hundreds of houses and multi-storey buildings collapsed. REUTERS/Crack Palinggi  (Post by CAAI News Media)

A man walks amid the rubble of an earthquake-damaged building in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island October 1, 2009. Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit Padang, possibly killing thousands. REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper  (Post by CAAI News Media)

A resident looks at the wreckage of a house in Padang, West Sumatra province October 1, 2009. Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit Padang, possibly killing thousands. REUTERS/Dadang Tri  (Post by CAAI News Media)

People watch as heavy equipment helps to move rubble from the wreckage of a college, from which 22 students are still missing, in Padang, West Sumatra province October 1, 2009. Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to find people trapped under debris after a powerful earthquake hit Padang, possibly killing thousands. REUTERS/Dadang Tri  (Post by CAAI News Media)

Indonesian rescuers search for victims in the rubble of a collapsed building in Padang in West Sumatra after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the area. Experts said that environmental damage, shoddy urban planning, corruption and other man-made problems are magnifying the human cost of natural disasters almost every time they strike in Asia. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)  (Post by CAAI News Media)

Rescuers search for victims at a building damaged by earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. A second earthquake with a 6.8 magnitude rocked western Indonesia Thursday, a day after the region was devastated by an undersea quake of 7.6 magnitude. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)  (Post by CAAI News Media)

Soldiers carry the bodies of earthquake victims at a hospital in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island October 1, 2009. The 7.6 magnitude quake, which struck on Wednesday afternoon, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official said early on Thursday morning. REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper  (Post by CAAI News Media)

Residents stand near the bodies of earthquake victims at a hospital in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island October 1, 2009. The 7.6 magnitude quake, which struck on Wednesday afternoon, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official said early on Thursday morning. REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper  (Post by CAAI News Media)

A resident checks a body as he tries to find his relative at a hospital in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island October 1, 2009. Thousands may have died in an earthquake that struck the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island, a minister said on Thursday, with officials saying many victims remained buried under toppled buildings. The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Padang on Wednesday afternoon, knocking over hundreds of buildings, but with communications patchy it was hard to determine the extent of the destruction and loss of life. REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper  (Post by CAAI News Media)

Soldiers and volunteers carry an earthquake victim from a collapsed hotel in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island October 1, 2009. The 7.6 magnitude quake, which struck on Wednesday afternoon, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official said early on Thursday morning. REUTERS/Muhammad Fitrah/Singgalang Newspaper (Post by CAAI News Media)

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