In the city's Petobo section, the quake caused loose, wet soil to liquefy, creating a thick, heavy mud that caused massive damage. Desperation was evident across Palu, a city of more than 380,000 people on the island of Sulawesi. Video showed some of them screaming in anger because they were not able to get on a departing military plane. Nearly 50,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Palu alone, Nugroho said, and hospitals were overwhelmed. The Indonesian air force confirmed that a Hercules aircraft carrying an unspecified number of survivors was able to leave Palu for South Sulawesi's capital of Makassar.

Source: ABC News October 01, 2018 01:17 UTC