Palu's Tatura Mall, one of the oldest shopping centres in Palu, collapsed, trapping dozens of people. The cyclone swept away houses and devastated more than 200,000 hectares of crops, according to the Mozambique National Institute for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction (INGD). Permukiman di sekitar pantai hancur disapu tsunami. There were also reports that a whole village was gone. Since the vast majority of apparent deaths were tsunami related, the mudflow itself is an additional major disaster. During a strike-slip earthquake, the movements of the crusts were largely in horizontal motion while most tsunamis occurred in earthquakes with vertical motion. On the day that Tropical Cyclone Eloise hit, the roof of Deocina's house was swept away and the walls fell. This forced Deocina and her children to seek refuge at dawn. Explore frequently asked questions about the Indonesia earthquake on Sunday, Aug. 5 and Friday, Sept. 28, and learn how you can help children and families impacted by the earthquakes and tsunami. The prison reportedly suffered severe damage. How can I help victims of the Indonesia earthquakes? The main active structure onshore northern Sulawesi is the left-lateral NNW-SSE trending Palu-Koro strike-slip fault that forms the boundary between the North Sula and Makassar blocks. Hundreds of passengers were stranded at the airport. However, a localised tsunami later struck Palu, sweeping shore-lying houses and buildings on its way. On Saturday 22nd December, undersea landslides triggered a tsunami around Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands of Indonesia. On Friday 28th September 2018, an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude struck the central province of Sulawesi in indonesia. In Pantoloan Harbour, a Quay crane collapsed and was swept by the tsunami. About 30 teachers have also received pyscho-social training to be able to help students. Calculation suggests that the tsunami will arrive in Palu approximately 20 minutes after the earthquake. In Wani Harbour, structural damage was reported, while Ogoamas Harbour moved 3 cm to its right due to the earthquake. At least 1 person was killed by fallen debris while 10 others were injured. Numerous eyewitnesses stated that the total amount of liquid, which was released by the soil, was so immense that buildings and structures were swept away. The mainshock magnitude was initially reported as M7.7 by both the USGS and BMKG. A series of powerful earthquakes hit Indonesia, triggering a deadly tsunami. How is World Vision responding to the Indonesia earthquakes? On 28 September 2018, a strong earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.5 occurred on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. On September 28, 2018 significant tsunami waves, which are considered to have been generated by submarine landslides, struck the shorelines of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. We expect to focus our disaster response on food, shelter, nutrition, child protection, and water and sanitation.  The magnitude-7.5 temblor struck at 5:02 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, generating a devastating tsunami. The first foreshock occurred at 15:00 local time. This makes it the deadliest earthquake in Indonesia since the September 2009 Sumatra earthquake, as well as the deadliest earthquake so far in 2018. According to the Indonesian Agency for the Assessment and Application for Technology (BPPT), energy released by the quake was 200 times to that released in the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. Following the mainshock, a tsunami alert was issued for the nearby Makassar Strait, but was called off an hour after.