Minister for Justice Michael Keenan has welcomed Australia's participation in Indonesia's
Mentawai Megathrust 2014, a disaster response training exercise involving a major earthquake and tsunami scenario.
translucens from two specimens commensal on a sponge in the
Mentawai Islands off SW Sumatra.
2 on the Richter Scale jolted southeast of the Indonesian
Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, on Wednesday.
The epicentre was close to the remote archipelago of
Mentawai.
OWe are going to explore Sabang, Padang,
Mentawai, Bengkulu and Bangka Belitung this year.
Bengkulu I --
Mentawai is in the offshore Bengkulu basin of the province of Bengkulu, in southwest of Sumatra.
local time (0451 GMT) with epicenter at 162 km southeast
Mentawai island of West Sumatra and with the depth at 83 km under sea bed, an official of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency told Xinhua by phone.
I went to the
Mentawai Islands off the coast of Padang, although it was a bit of a mission to get there.
5 magnitude quake that struck 78 km west of South Pagai, one of the
Mentawai islands, flattened several villages and a surf resort.
In the government-coordinated relief efforts for the October 2010
Mentawai tsunami, community or NGO participation in designing shelter solutions has been minimal.
The massive quake killed close to 40 and caused a deadly tsunami that swept over the
Mentawai island chain, killing nearly 500 and displacing more than 70,000.
JAKARTA - Six surfers from New Zealand, France and the United States are missing in Indonesia's western
Mentawai Islands in the wake of last week's earthquake-triggered tsunami that has left over 500 people dead or missing, a government official said Tuesday.