BANGKOK — Soaring over eastern Indonesia on Friday, Petra Mandagi exulted at the perfect conditions for a paragliding addict: azure skies, a sweet breeze and a picture postcard bay rippling below. On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, earthquakes were a fact of life, Mr. Mandagi, 35, told his wife. As of Sunday evening, national disaster mitigation officials said that at least 832 people had been confirmed killed. Only 22 such buoys had been placed across the vast archipelagic nation that sprawls across the Pacific and Indian oceans — and none of them worked. Some had even gone missing, Mr. Sutopo said.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2018 09:09 UTC