Evacuation earthquake effect on Palu, Indonesia

Source. : Independent.co.uk
Author : Zamira Rahim
Resume by : Naufal Badri Duja

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake, which hit Indonesia on 28 September 2018, turned around
430 hectares of land soft soil into mud across the central Sulawesi region in a
process known as liquefaction. O​fficials said that 2,103 people were killed and 3,500
homes destroyed. A further 5,000 people remain unaccounted for in the neighbourhoods
swallowed by the mud.

Ahmad Yurianto, head of the Ministry of Health's crisis centre, said that groundwater
needed to be checked regularly for contamination. He added that drainage needed to be
established to collect rainwater before it entered the city's river.

So the evacuator team use helicopters to spray disinfectant on neighbourhoods in Palu,

a city in Indonesia that was devastated by September's earthquake and tsunami, in a
bid to combat disease risks from the thousands of bodies which are thought to still be
buried in the worst hit areas. Bombing and spraying of disinfectants is an effort to
anticipate the spread of diseases through vectors such as flies, cockroaches, or mice.

On the other side the Indonesian government is considering a 6 trillion rupiah plan to
invest in a "New Palu City". A massive effort is underway to distribute 215 tonnes of
relief, including tarpaulins and clean drinking water, to the thousands of people
displaced by the disaster, before the start of the monsoon rains, the Indonesian Red
Cross said.