MAGNITUDE 5.2 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
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Depth: 88 km
Distances: 286 km S of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 17:08:55.5 2015-08-06
274 km NW of Padang, Indonesia / pop: 840,352 / local time: 17:08:55.5 2015-08-06
224 km NW of Bukittinggi, Indonesia / pop: 98,746 / local time: 17:08:55.5 2015-08-06
62 km SW of Padangsidempuan, Indonesia / pop: 100,561 / local time: 17:08:55.5 2015-08-06
Plane Crash Kills At Least 55 In Indonesia
Plane Crashes Into Houses And Hotel
A military plane has crashed into a residential area in Indonesia, killing dozens of people.
The plane’s manifest showed there were 50 people on board the C-130 Hercules when it crashed into the city of Medan on the island of Sumatra shortly after take-off.
Air force chief Air Marshall Agus Supriatna said 49 bodies have been recovered and taken to the city’s Adam Malik hospital.
He added that the pilot told the control tower the plane needed to turn back because of engine trouble.
“The plane crashed while it was turning right to return to the airport,” Mr Supriatna said.
Red Cross worker Eko Triandi, who was helping emergency teams at a nearby hospital, said: “Based on reports, there are many victims still in the field.”
Novi, who works at an international school near the accident site and goes by one name, said she heard the aircraft and saw it flying very low before it crashed.
“It was very scary,” she said, adding that she rushed to the site with her colleagues but the wreckage and plumes of smoke looked “very bad”.
Another local resident, Januar, 26, said the aircraft appeared to be in trouble just before the accident.
“I saw the plane from the direction of the airport and it was tilting already, then I saw smoke billowing,” she said.
Medan resident Fahmi Sembiring also said he saw the aircraft flying very low before it crashed.
“Flames and black smoke were coming from the plane in the air,” he said.
Sembiring said he stopped not far from the crash site and saw several people rescued by police, security guards and bystanders.
Janson Halomoan Sinagam said several of his relatives were on the plane when it left Medan on its journey to the remote island chain of Natuna.
“We just want to know their fate,” he told a reporter from MetroTV, weeping. “But we have not yet received any information from the hospital.”
It is thought many of the passengers were families of military personnel. Hitching rides on military planes to reach remote destinations is common in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago that spans three time zones.
Between 2007 and 2009, the European Union barred Indonesian airlines from flying to Europe because of safety concerns.
The country’s most recent civilian airline disaster was in December, when an AirAsia jet with 162 people on board crashed into the Java Sea en route from Surabaya to Singapore.
The Hercules accident is the second time in 10 years that an aircraft has crashed into a neighbourhood of Medan.
In September 2005, a Mandala Airlines Boeing 737 crashed into a crowded residential community shortly after take-off from Medan’s Polonia airport, killing 143 people including 30 on the ground.
Medan, with about 3.4 million people, is the third most populous city in Indonesia after the capital, Jakarta, and Surabaya.
MAGNITUDE 5.0 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
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Depth: 80 km
Distances: 359 km W of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 21:07:50.9 2015-06-01
96 km S of Banda Aceh, Indonesia / pop: 250,757 / local time: 21:07:50.9 2015-06-01
78 km SW of Sigli, Indonesia / pop: 17,504 / local time: 21:07:50.9 2015-06-01
MAGNITUDE 5.5 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
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Depth: 8 km
Distances: 419 km SW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 07:07:12.2 2015-03-05
387 km W of Bukittinggi, Indonesia / pop: 98,746 / local time: 07:07:12.2 2015-03-05
257 km S of Sinabang, Indonesia / pop: 15,000 / local time: 07:07:12.2 2015-03-05
MAGNITUDE 5.2 SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
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Depth: 10 km
Distances: 326 km W of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 22:24:29.7 2014-12-17
303 km S of Banda Aceh, Indonesia / pop: 250,757 / local time: 22:24:29.7 2014-12-17
75 km NW of Sinabang, Indonesia / pop: 15,000 / local time: 22:24:29.7 2014-12-17
MAGNITUDE 5.1 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
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Depth: 2 km
Distances: 649 km NW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 13:05:42.9 2014-11-20
238 km NW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia / pop: 250,757 / local time: 13:05:42.9 2014-11-20
207 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia / pop: 24,519 / local time: 13:05:42.9 2014-11-20
MAGNITUDE 5.2 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
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Depth: 10 km
Distances: 640 km NW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 13:06:25.0 2014-11-18
232 km NW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia / pop: 250,757 / local time: 13:06:25.0 2014-11-18
200 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia / pop: 24,519 / local time: 13:06:25.0 2014-11-18
MAGNITUDE 5.7 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
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Depth: 10 km
Distances: 649 km NW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 10:25:39.3 2014-11-18
243 km NW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia / pop: 250,757 / local time: 10:25:39.3 2014-11-18
211 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia / pop: 24,519 / local time: 10:25:39.3 2014-11-18
MAGNITUDE 5.4 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
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Depth: 38 km
Distances: 231 km SW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 18:06:09.9 2014-11-16
105 km W of Sibolga, Indonesia / pop: 79,714 / local time: 18:06:09.9 2014-11-16
MAGNITUDE 4.5 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
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Depth: 35 km
Distances: 636 km NW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 04:19:41.0 2014-11-15
229 km NW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia / pop: 250,757 / local time: 04:19:41.0 2014-11-15
197 km NW of Sabang, Indonesia / pop: 24,519 / local time: 04:19:41.0 2014-11-15
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