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Updated Thursday, October 1, 2009 5:25 pm TWN, By IRWAN FIRDAUS, AP



	A video grab shows a foot among the wreckage of a building following an earthquake in Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island, yesterday. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the city of Padang on the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island yesterday, damaging houses, toppling bridges and starting fires. (Reuters) Enlarge Photo

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2nd quake shakes Indonesia after temblor kills 529

"My daughter's face keeps appearing in my eyes ... my mind. I cannot sleep, I'm waiting here to see her again," a woman who identified herself only as Imelda told TVOne, tears rolling down her face. She said her 12-year-old daughter Yolanda was in the school for science lessons.

"She is a good daughter and very smart. I really love her. Please, God help her," she said.

At least 80 people were missing at the 5-story Ambacang hotel in downtown Padang, said Indra, a paramedic who uses only one name. Rescuers, working in heavy rain, found two survivors and nine bodies in the rubble.

Thousands fled Wednesday's quake in panic, fearing a tsunami. The shaking was so intense that people crouched or sat on the street. Children screamed as thousands of frantic residents fled in cars and motorbikes, honking horns.

The quake caused buildings to sway hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in Malaysia and Singapore.

The quake severed roads and cut off power and communications to Padang, and the extent of damage in surrounding areas was still unclear.

Indonesia, a poor, sprawling nation, sits on a major geological fault zone and is frequently hit by earthquakes. The latest quakes were along the same fault line that spawned the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations.

Geologists said the Indonesia quakes were not related to another deadly quake Tuesday that hit islands in the South Pacific.

Padang's mayor appealed for assistance on Indonesian radio station el-Shinta.

"We are overwhelmed with victims and ... lack of clean water, electricity and telecommunications," Mayor Fauzi Bahar said. "We really need help. We call on people to come to Padang to evacuate bodies and help the injured."

Finance minister Sri Mulyani said the government has allocated $25 million for a two-month emergency response. She said the earthquake will seriously affect Indonesia's economic growth, because West Sumatra is a main producer of crude palm oil.

"This region has been damaged seriously, including its infrastructure," Mulyani said.

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