Sumatra

In parts of Sumatra, the neighbouring Indonesian island spewing out the smog, it had been getting hard to breathe.

At the time of the great Sumatra earthquake in 2004 there was no capability in the Indian Ocean region for a tsunami hazard.

Accompanied by his mother, the boy left his village on Sumatra island in July to undergo treatment in the capital.

Once there were tigers all over Asia, from Sumatra and Bali in the south, India in the west, up to Siberia in the north.

Information has just been trickling out of this remote island, information off the coast of western Sumatra .

This has not yet completed, though is at the point we anticipated for some regions on Java and Sumatra.

NGO's are mobilising themselves to save one of the last tropical forests of the island of Sumatra.

Surely this must be a graduated drop, with Sumatra and Java experiencing the worst of it.

An earthquake measuring 5. 4 on the Richter scale rattled West Sumatra province on Thursday but there was no immediate report of casualties.

They reported that there was an 8. 5 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra , which triggered the massive tsunami .

Sumatra in Indonesia's tropical forests, grows a very unusual plant, whose name is big plants, known as the world's largest flower.

Better to ship coal to India from Sumatra or Kalimantan in Indonesia than dig it up from mines in Bihar and transport it across the country.

And Malay folklore describes another small, humanlike being known as the orang pendek that supposedly dwells on Sumatra to this day.

Much of the tsunami-detection effort has focused on Sumatra, where the Indian Ocean tsunami took a horrendous toll.

Sumatra and Central Java will be included in the next phase of the large-scale immunization campaigns, which will start from August.

It started with a mock earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, triggering a virtual tsunami wave that crossed the Indian Ocean in 12 hours.

There are no commercial flights to the island and traveling by ferry from Sumatra can take at least half a day.

"Just recently there was a magnitude-seven earthquake in Sumatra ; that knocked us offline, " Raab says.

That's why I started camping, out in the wild, across Java and Sumatra, in a cheap Kmart tent and the rain that fell at night.

She led me to a table and brought me some delicious Sumatra coffee and espresso brownies.

The Sumatra elephants were caught by authorities in Riau province after they raided crops and a village earlier this month.

Using live data, RTerg identified the Sumatra earthquake as a potential tsunami earthquake in eight and a half minutes.

No deaths were reported after a major earthquake striking Sumatra of Indonesia Wednesday, and a tsunami alert was later lifted.

Behind a wooden counter stood bins containing coffees from all over: Sumatra, Kenya, Ethiopia, Costa Rica.

A traditional "minangkabau" designed building flattened by an earthquake is seen in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct.

The magnitude 7. 6 quake was centred 32 miles north-west of the city in western Sumatra, said the US geological survey.

For instance on the island of Sumatra near Jambi, where the article states that the flooding is from the sea.

Similar stories came out in 2004 after the Sumatra quake.

Twenty of the new cases are from the province of Banten, and one of the cases is from Lampung province, Sumatra.

Charcoal is the main mangrove product in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra (Indonesia), Myanmar and Southern Vietnam.

The World Wildlife Fund points to Sumatra's rapid deforestation rate as the main cause for the increased threat to the elephants.

The same forces that produce the earthquakes also created Sumatra, its volcanoes, the nearby islands, and shaped the sea floor.

The search has begun for victims in the Indonesia earthquake, a massive 8. 4 quake hit on Sumatra Island. At least ten people have died.

A woman laughs at a refugee camp in Kabanjahe, North Sumatra province.

It has a pungent foul smell, fortunately, people only in Indonesia's Sumatra island and Borneo area found that host plant.

Now a genetic analysis has confirmed that the cat comes in two forms, one living in Sumatra, the other on Borneo.

one undersea ridge south of the Nicobars was once, he suspects, a piece of Sumatra that sunk in the distant past.

None of the newly confirmed cases is associated with the family cluster in Karo, North Sumatra.

The second important belt, the Alpide, extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic.

Police said more than a dozen assailants surrounded a police station in northern Sumatra during the night and opened fire.

The team warns that the coastline around Padang, Sumatra, would subside by tens of centimetres if another major earthquake hit the area.

Indonesian police and forest rangers riding elephants approach illegal settlements in the Gunung Leuser national park, Sumatra.

The underground tear started 100 kilometers off the coast of Sumatra, on the western edge of the Burma plate.

At one point Indonesian authorities considered evacuating the city of Rengat, Sumatra, but a change of wind brought some improvement.

In 685 he returned to Sumatra from India to do further research and recorded the information that Srivijaya had absorbed Malayu.

A volunteer prepares breakfast for villagers at a camp in the district of Tanah Karo, in Indonesia's North Sumatra province.

Australian authorities had rescued them from a boat between Sumatra and Christmas Island, an Australian territory.

In 2007, 42 people were killed when a fire broke out aboard a ferry travelling from Jakarta to Bangka island off the island of Sumatra.

Since the first outbreaks in 2003 avian influenza has spread rapidly across Java into Bali, Kalimantan and Sumatra.

The Chile quake was smaller than the Sumatra quake of 2004, a magnitude-9. 1 and was not expected to be anything nearly as destructive.

At least 29 people have died and more than 240 rescued after a ferry sank off Sumatra Island in Indonesia Sunday morning, local police said.

The Sumatra rabbit is the only other known striped rabbit.

The Dutch achieved a great measure of control over the pepper ports of Sumatra.

Mala Pi volcanic elevation 2891 m, is Sumatra's most active volcano, a number of cities and towns near the volcano.

The human viruses from this cluster are genetically similar to viruses isolated from poultry in North Sumatra during a previous outbreak.

Vast areas of the northern coastline of Sumatra and the southern coastline of Borneo will likewise be inundated.

A tiger peers at a camera trap it triggered during a morning hunt in the forests of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

A thick smoke spews from the summit of Mount Sinabung as it erupts in Northern Sumatra.

Ming play wei islands distance Sumatra island coast about 175 kilometers, many islands villages on region, transportation difficult terrain.

However, the countryside quickly emerges. The jungle is less dense than in Sumatra and contains a wider variety of trees and plants.

Hundreds are still missing after Monday's devastating tsunami struck the remote Mentawai islands of West Sumatra.

The world's most delicious food is not Massaman curry, as we suggested, but a meaty, spicy, gingery dish from west Sumatra.

The virus is endemic in Java, Sumatra, Bali and southern Sulawesi with sporadic outbreaks reported from other areas.

On Tuesday, Mount Talang, also on Sumatra, sent clouds of gas high into the air.

Peppercorns are the dried berries of Piper nigrum, grown in the West Indies, Sumatra, and other eastern countries.

Orangutans, found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra , are the largest tree-dwelling mammals in the world.

Sumatra may be a lost cause, like much of Kalimantan.

porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail.

Children sit on the floor as a band performs at a shelter in Brastagi, North Sumatra province.

For the past 30 years, I've started each day with a coffee press of Sumatra or, when it's available, Aged Sumatra.

An arboreal anthropoid ape (Pongo pygmaeus) of Borneo and Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, very long arms, and no tail.

Zulfan Effendi, a 36-year-old palm-oil farmer from the western island of Sumatra, says he used to struggle to make ends meet.

Mixed forests, bamboo forests; near sea level to 1700 m. Guangxi, SE Sichuan, Taiwan [Indonesia (N Sumatra), Japan, Myanmar, Vietnam].

This evolved into two types after a group colonised Sumatra via glacial land bridges, and then became cut off as sea levels rose.

After reacting to the initial crisis, HFH Indonesia began a long-term effort to rebuild homes in Sumatra and West Java.

Rescuers recover a victim at the mine tunnel in West Sumatra , Indonesia, on Tuesday.

On the 30th, two disasters hit: a massive tsunami flattened entire communities in Samoa, and a 7. 6 magnitude earthquake struck Sumatra.

After five days of driving through Sumatra, we head over the water to Java.

The tsunami data begins on December 26, 2004, following the earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

A man sells blended chili in a traditional market which was damaged by an earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra province October 5, 2009.

And meanwhile, the islands are being drawn down as the tongue slips under the curve under Sumatra and Java.

In the Aceh region on the island of Sumatra, dozens died and hundreds of homes were suddenly inundated.

The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) southeast of Siberut island off Sumatra's west coast, the meteorological agency said in a text message.

It brought the west coast of Sumatra practically under Dutch supervision .

Some telecommunications networks in West Sumatra were down preventing updates on the situation getting through, according to reports.

Forests; 600--1100 m. Yunnan [Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Laos, W Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].

US Navy helicopter crewmen drop food parcels to inaccessible areas in Sumatra.

It's clear now that they are not just Malaysian bats but they share time between Sumatra, Thailand and Malaysia.

Forests; ca. 1000 m. C and W Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan [Indonesia (Sumatra), W Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam].

Adani Group, the Indian conglomerate, said in August it was investing $1. 6bn to build a railway line and coal terminal in remote Sumatra.

The patient, a 21-year-old man from Lampung, Sumatra, developed symptoms on 20 September and was hospitalized on 24 September.

The first newly confirmed case is a four-year-old boy from Sumatra Island in Lampung Province.

The first predictions of the 2004 quake's magnitude estimated the Sumatra, Indonesia-centered temblor had a magnitude of 8. 0.

The world's smallest fish has been discovered in the peat swamps of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra.

Bose, Sumatra. Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention. Pp. 1-148.

Sumatra itself is part of an island arc.

Hours later, when the magnetic N Pole was escaping over the horizon, the bounce back gave Sumatra a matching 6. 5 quake.

ONE day in June 2007 Dago Simamora, a junior high-school teacher in Palembang in South Sumatra, picked up his nine-year-old son from school.

A man runs near a burning houses after a powerful earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept.

Other tremors have shaken Sumatra, including one in 2007 that killed scores in Padang.

Local 25, the Indonesian island of Sumatra earthquake over magnitude 7 earthquake also triggered tsunami.

What makes it so rare is that it is highly endangered in the wild, in Sumatra, and it is so hard to geta to bloom in cultivation.

The massive earthquake and tsunami on December 26th 2004 flattened the coastline of Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra.

In Jakarta, Sumatra Coffee Luwak is increasingly focusing on markets outside Indonesia such as China, Singapore and Thailand.

Medan, on the east coast of Sumatra, is another example.

Cattle race through rice fields in West Sumatra.

Thousands of people flee as a volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Indeed, a second, less powerful onshore tremor shook Sumatra on the morning of October 1st, barely 12 hours after the first one.

Women work at a West Sumatra gas station.

The Chinese have fled to Sumatra to the west of movement and settlement in Peninsular Malaysia.

The eight-foot-tall plant bloomed at the University of Basel, Switzerland. It is native to Sumatra's rainforests in Indonesia.

First impressions of Sumatra are not good.

The eight foot plant, which is indigenous to Sumatra's rainforests in Indonesia, has the largest unbranched shoot in the world.

Aceh Province because the nearest earthquake in Sumatra , the most serious disaster.

Rescue workers walk past the Ambacang Hotel which collapsed in the earthquake-hit area of Padang, West Sumatra province October 4, 2009.

The Zetas provided this explanation just after the December 26, 2004 tsunami quake in Sumatra.

A rare and elusive big cat discovered just four years ago has been filmed in Sumatra for the first time.

Merapi, Sumatra's most active volcano, towering at almost 9, 500 feet just to the east.

The second case is a 27 -year-old male from Solok, West Sumatra Province .

Indonesia is also rich in volcanoes, the most famous being the now vanished Krakatau (Krakatoa), which was located between Sumatra and Java.

Following this, a magnitude 5. 9 quake occurred off the sinking edge of Sumatra.

Nonja, who was born on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and lived in Miami since 1983, was found dead Saturday morning.

The six confirmed cases in Sumatra include the woman's two sons, aged 15 and 17 years, who died respectively on 9 May and 12 May.

Record of rodents in the age of 27 years and 3 months, this is a January 12, 1965 Washington, DC, died of Sumatra have Guanhao pig.

One fine day about 74, 000 years ago, a giant volcano on Sumatra blew its top.

On April 7, 2011 a second buoy went off - 56001 under the curve of Sumatra was joined by buoy 42407 south of Puerto Rico.

A massive 9. 1-magnitude quake off Aceh in northern Sumatra triggered the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 220, 000.

Sumatra is huge so we can look forward to 12-hour days on board with no fidgeting.

Between 30 and 40 species: N temperate regions, extending south to Indonesia (N Sumatra); 26 species (15 endemic) in China.

But the researchers think that a volcanic eruption on Sumatra 75, 000 years ago may have wiped out most clouded leopards.

Mantle surface wave of the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake recorded by the Global Seismograph Network

Vertical moisture transport above the mixed layer around the mountains in western Sumatra

Characteristics of Convection Activities over Sumatra Area and Its Relationship with SCS Summer Monsoon Onset

Coral radiocarbon records of Indian Ocean water mass mixing and wind-induced upwelling along the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia

Thick smoke and ash spew from the summit of Mount Sinabung as seen in this night-time long exposure from Tanah Karo in North Sumatra

New WWF Monitoring Brief Details How Company Threatens Natural Forests and Wildlife In Sumatra

Discussions on Possible Geodetic Mechanism for the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake

Study on Indian Oceanic Area Gas Release Phenomenon from Sumatra Earthquake

The Analysis of DMC Multi-spectral Data for Sumatra Geological Application

Intraseasonal Kelvin waves along the southern coast of Sumatra and Java

Analysis of Abnormal signals of Infrasound Before the Sumatra Strong Earthquakes

Sumatra, Indonesia: A three-month-old Sumatran elephant walks between his parents at Way Kambas National Park

Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra

Then there's the strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, patrolled by the US 7th Fleet

Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia

Earthquake Again Occurred in Sumatra of Indonesia

Spotted! The elusive Sunda clouded leopard of Sumatra is caught on film for the first time

Diversity and Dynamics of Plant Life in Sumatra 1

A study on the relationship between the sumatra earthquake in Indonesia and the pearl river floods in China

INDONESIA'S SUMATRA ISLAND, 2001 (forest in green, cleared land in red)

Radiation Anomalism Before Sumatra Island M8. 7 Earthquake

RISPA Research Institute of the Sumatra Planters Association

The effects of Sumatra earthquake with Magnitude 8. 7 In China's mainland