Bali drug case boy caught in quake 
 
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 A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Bali, shaking the police compound where an Australian teenager is being held on drugs charges. 
 
 The quake, measured by the US Geological Survey (USGS) as 6.0, made the walls of the police headquarters warp and flex. 
 
 As the windows shook, hundreds of staff rushed out into the central courtyard. 
 
 The NSW teenager being held there on drugs charges was moved out of his cell but remained inside the building during the brief quake. 
 
 Adult prisoners in the regular holding cells remained locked behind bars. 
 
 Australia's Consul-General, Brett Farmer, says he has been to see the teenager since Thursday's quake. 
 
 He says narcotics officers were preparing the the teenager for an evacuation, but because of the short length of the quake, the boy did not leave the building. 
 
 Indonesia's geophysical agency said the quake measured 6.8 and struck about 140 kilometres south-west of Denpasar, the island's capital, at a depth of 10 kilometres. 
 
 US seismologists however said the 6.0-magnitude quake was 61.3 kilometres deep and about 160 kilometres south-west of the capital. 
 
 Around 50 people have been reported injured in the quake, most from falling roof tiles as hundreds of panicked tourists on the resort island fled buildings that shook violently and cracked in the tremor. 
 
 Rumbling was also felt for several minutes in the main tourist district of Kuta. 
 
 "There was panic, everyone ran out of the buildings. When we returned to our office building, we saw some cracks on the wall and plaster had come off the walls," said Endro Tjahjono from the Bali office of Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. 
 
 Tourists flee 
 
 The area's Sunset Road was hit hard, with hundreds of tourists fleeing from malls, restaurants and supermarkets. 
 
 "Hundreds of people ran onto the streets. It was chaos. So many people tried to drive off that the traffic came to a standstill," said Reno Permana, who ran from the third floor of his office building when the quake hit. 
 
 "Part of the wall on the Carrefour supermarket near my building came down, and tiles from the roof fell and smashed into the parking lot. A lot of the buildings are badly damaged, with windows smashed in." 
 
 Stephanie Fleming, a Briton who works for a tourism company in the Seminyak area close to Kuta, says her office shook violently for around a minute. 
 
 "It happened so quickly. Everything was shaking and the doors were banging open and shut. We didn't really know what to do so we all ran out onto the street," she said. 
 
 "It looked like a wall in our office was about to fall down, but all the structures outside seem more or less intact." 
 
 Evacuated 
 
 Caroline Mercier, a 40-year-old tourist in the island's cultural centre of Ubud, said she was used to feeling quakes in California, but never like this one. 
 
 "It started at my feet and went all though my heart and head - it made me nauseous. My first reaction was to get out of the house. I was very confused when the roof started shaking," she said. 
 
 Novotel Bali Benoa, one of the many resorts in the luxury southern beach area of Nusa Dua, evacuated its guests as the hotel shook for a minute. 
 
 "The funny thing is that the foreign guests who were sitting in the lobby did not feel the shaking. They started running when hearing people say 'there's an earthquake' while running down the lobby," hotel worker Ariyanti said. 
 
 The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre did not issue any tsunami warning as a result of the quake. 
 
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 First posted ||||| A powerful earthquake jolted Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, causing widespread panic and injuring at least 50 people, many with broken bones and head wounds. 
 
 The walls of some temples along the coast crumbled, and witnesses told local radio and television stations the roofs of some homes collapsed. 
 
 The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.0-magnitude quake was centered 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of the island. It hit 36 miles (60 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor. 
 
 Although not strong enough to trigger a tsunami, the quake was felt on neighboring Java and Lombok islands, hundreds of miles (kilometers) away. 
 
 "It knocked me off my motorcycle," said one badly shaken Bali resident, Miftahul Chusna. 
 
 Candy Juliani, a public relations officer for the Sanur Beach Hotel, said terrified guests fled the building. 
 
 "We have special emergency routes for this type of situation, but everyone was so scared, they just ignored them," Juliani said. 
 
 At least 50 people were hurt, many with cuts, broken bones and head wounds, said Wayan Sudanti, a hospital spokesman. 
 
 Three were in critical condition. 
 
 Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity. 
 
 A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Niniek Karmini contributed to this report from Jakarta. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Dramatic video shows buildings being knocked down 
 
 Strong aftershocks have continued to hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where a major quake and tsunami killed at least 408 people and injured 500. 
 
 Dozens remain missing, some thought to be trapped in the debris of collapsed buildings in the city of Palu. 
 
 Bodies have been lying in city streets and the injured are being treated in tents because of damage to hospitals. 
 
 An air traffic controller at Palu airport died ensuring a plane took off safely after Friday's quake. 
 
 The scale of casualties and damage beyond the city is still unclear. 
 
 Anxious survivors in Palu bedded down in the open air on Saturday night, heeding advice by officials not to return to their homes as a precaution. Some buildings were completely flattened. 
 
 Image copyright Grant Dotulong Image caption It is feared people are trapped in the debris of Palu's Roa Roa Hotel 
 
 Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the Ring of Fire - the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim. 
 
 In 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia. 
 
 'We don't know their fate' 
 
 By Rebecca Henschke, BBC News, Sulawesi 
 
 As we travel to the area devastated by the huge quake and tsunami we are meeting people heading the same way desperate to find out the fate of their loved ones. 
 
 "I know I have already lost three family members," one man told me, "two of them elderly relatives but one was a young father." 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption This road near Palu was partially blocked by a landslide 
 
 Other members of his family are still missing. "We don't know their fate," he tells me. 
 
 The images of devastation coming out of Palu are all too eerily familiar to many Indonesians. They evoke memories of the devastating tsunami of 2004 that hit the province of Aceh. 
 
 Why were so many killed on Friday? 
 
 A 7.5 magnitude quake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km (6.2 miles) just off central Sulawesi at 18:03 (10:03 GMT), US monitors say. 
 
 A tsunami warning was issued but lifted within the hour. 
 
 Indonesia's meteorological agency has been criticised for its response but officials say the waves struck while the warning was in place. 
 
 People including dancers were still busy on the beach in Palu (population: 335,000), preparing for a festival, and were caught when waves up to 3m (10ft) in height swept in. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption Palu's landmark Ponulele Bridge came down 
 
 Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic. 
 
 "The tsunami... dragged cars, logs, houses," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster agency, told Reuters news agency. "It hit everything on land." 
 
 Some people survived by climbing 6m (18ft) trees, he added. 
 
 As well as destroying homes, the quake wrecked a shopping centre, a mosque, a hotel and a road bridge. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Homes were wiped away in Palu 
 
 Reports are still coming in of the impact of the disaster on communities further up the coast from Palu and closer to the quake's epicentre, including the smaller town of Donggala, where there was at least one death and 10 people were injured. 
 
 "We have heard nothing from Donggala and this is extremely worrying," the Red Cross said in a statement. 
 
 "This is already a tragedy, but it could get much worse." 
 
 What are survivors saying about their ordeal? 
 
 When the quake hit, "we all panicked and ran out of the house," Anser Bachmid, 39, told AFP news agency. "People here need aid - food, drink, clean water. We don't know what to eat for dinner tonight." 
 
 "I just ran when I saw the waves hitting homes on the coastline," Palu resident Rusidanto said. 
 
 Dwi Haris, who was in the city for a wedding, was staying in a hotel with his wife and daughter when the quake struck. 
 
 "There was no time to save ourselves," he told the Associated Press news agency. "I was squeezed into the ruins of the wall... I heard my wife cry for help but then silence. I don't know what happened to her and my child. I hope they are safe." 
 
 With back and shoulder injuries, he is being treated outdoors at Palu's Army Hospital. 
 
 What is being done to help? 
 
 Aid is being flown from the capital Jakarta into Palu airport, using the part of its runway still intact. 
 
 Some people injured or affected by the quake were evacuated on a military transport plane. 
 
 Patients are being treated in the open outside city hospitals and at least one military field hospital has been erected. 
 
 Outside one hospital, dead bodies were laid out in bags for relatives to come and look for loved ones. 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption People have been living out in the open since the quake in Palu 
 
 The regional head of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI), Komang, asked the authorities for immediate help. 
 
 "We need tents, medicines, medical personnel, tarpaulins, blankets and more of other things," he said. 
 
 Relief efforts are being hampered by power cuts and damage to roads and other infrastructure. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption A field hospital is treating the injuring in Palu 
 
 The UK-based charity Save the Children is sending an assessment team to the disaster zone. 
 
 "Unfortunately the more information that we're getting, the worse the situation appears to be," charity spokesman Tom Howells told the BBC from Jakarta. 
 
 What happened at the airport? 
 
 Anthonius Gunawan Agung, 21, was the only person left in the airport's control tower after the earthquake, Australian broadcaster ABC reports. 
 
 Image copyright EPA Image caption The shattered tower at the airport 
 
 The rest had run for their lives when the tower started to sway but Mr Agung stayed behind to ensure Batik Air Flight 6321, which was on the runway, got away safely. 
 
 He then jumped from the fourth floor of the tower, fearing it was about to collapse, and was fatally injured. 
 
 Yohannes Sirait, spokesman for Air Navigation Indonesia, said he had potentially saved the lives of hundreds of people aboard the plane, losing his own in the process. 
 
 Colleagues paid tribute on Twitter, sharing photos of Mr Agung and soldiers carrying his covered body past a guard of honour. 
 
 In another development, more than half the 560 inmates at Palu's prison escaped after its walls collapsed, the Associated Press reports. 
 
 "It was very hard for the security guards to stop the inmates from running away as they were so panicked," said its warden, Adhi Yan Ricoh. 
 
 How big a hazard are quakes for Indonesia? 
 
 More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level are part of the Ring of Fire. 
 
 Just last month, a series of deadly earthquakes struck the Indonesian island of Lombok. The biggest, on 5 August, killed more than 460 people.
– At least 50 people were injured when a powerful earthquake shook Bali this morning. The 6.1 quake caused widespread panic on the Indonesian resort island, and witnesses say the roofs of some homes collapsed, AP reports. The quake, centered 60 miles southwest of the island, was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami, but it was felt on islands hundreds of miles away. It hit the day after the island marked the anniversary of the terrorist bombings that killed 202 people nine years ago. In the island's main tourist areas, visitors say they were told to run for their lives as cracks began to appear in buildings. A tourist from California says the quake was unlike any she had felt in her home state. "It started at my feet and went all though my heart and head—it made me nauseous," she told Australia's ABC. "My first reaction was to get out of the house. I was very confused when the roof started shaking."