Sumatra quake causes no fatalities

Saturday afternoon here in Indonesia a 6.9 earthquake rattled western Sumatra including the island of Nias and the city of Padang. As of yet no fatalities are reported and there is little damage. Nias and Padang were the scenes of a lot of damage in the March 28th earthquake.

Indonesia seems to be on the front lines when it comes to natural disasters and as someone once told me, life in Bali mirrors that. They said when you looks at Balinese people, dressed elegantly against the carefully manicured rice fields you think of paradise, but you have to remember we are on a fault zone with volcanoes that can explode at any moment.

Here is Bali I did not feel the earthquake and I am sure most people are unaware of it. Sumatra has really taken a bashing in the last couple of years with the flash flood in Bukit Luwang, the tsunami in Aceh, the war in Aceh, the earthquake and now this. North Sumatra also has the worlds largest strato-volcano at Lake Toba.