Just 34 minutes after Indonesia was hit by another major earthquake, officials called off a tsunami warning. Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, in an interview with local media, said the death toll could reach well into the thousands. Among the dead was a young Indonesian air traffic controller who stayed at his post when the earthquake hit to ensure that a plane carrying hundreds of passengers took off safely. The second badly hit city, Donggala, remained inaccessible after a main bridge collapsed. In December 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

Source: Washington Post September 29, 2018 09:14 UTC