TWO KILLER QUAKES JOLT INDONESIA, WHILE TSUNAMI SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTH

TWO POWERFUL QUAKES that jolted western Indonesia left more than a thousand people dead and hundreds are believed trapped underneath collapsed buildings in deadly earthquakes that shook the country two days after a deadly typhoon Ketsana wreak havoc across the Philippines. Rescue crews frantically dug and scoured for many quake victims believed trapped beneath buildings that collapsed after the quakes that registered 7.5 and 7.6 in the Richter scale.

Meanwhile, as a result of the deadly tremors, a powerful tsunami hit the Southern Pacific, Samoa and American Samoa killing more than One Thousand people and some four thousand missing while hundreds of people injured in an island off Sumatra shortly after the Indonesia quake. Giant waves towering some twenty feet high swept beyond the shores about a mile long and lashed, killing people instantly and wrecked buildings, houses, boats, vehicles and structures like play toys. The International Red Cross immediately responded and conducted rescue operations and distributed relief goods, medicine and potable water to the ravaged areas.