Sunday, January 04, 2009

Earthquake...

Today there were a series of earthquakes in the bird's head of Papua. You can read about it here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gCeFe6qrUA2J6TpqBUjMoyp8nthAD95G7KPG4
or here:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jOQtxsEeANolQFSidsAXr_XkrnRA

We have a single family base there. They report that there is minimal damage to their buildings and home and actually surprisingly little damage in town. Our pilot there figured the runway was not damaged but according to the news article it is. Also, according to our pilot there are two hotels that have collapsed and a third sustained some damage. They said that the third earthquake was so strong that it knocked them off their feet. They were outside at the time. At this point there is no word on the situation interior.

1 comment:

Tamara Jansen said...

Oh wow! I'm glad to hear they were not injured! Things like this remind you of how small we are and how big God is, don't you find