Death and Destruction on Flores Island: A Familiar Sorrow for Indonesia The news from eastern Indonesia is grim: at least 47 people have been killed, over 100 injured, and thousands displaced in a magnitude 7.
7 earthquake that has ravaged the island of Flores. The devastation is all too familiar to those who have followed Indonesia's history of seismic disasters.
Rescue teams are digging through rubble and landslides, confronting the harsh reality that Indonesia's geography makes it prone to catastrophic earthquakes.