Family members mourn victims in front of a collapsed school in Padang, west Sumatra, on October 1, after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the area. Indonesia said on Thursday it feared thousands had died in an enormous earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble with their bare hands in a race to find survivors.
Indonesian youths survey a neighborhood damaged by earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. A second earthquake with a 6.8 magnitude rocked western Indonesia Thursday, a day after the region was devastated by an undersea quake of 7.6 magnitude.
I feel so sorry for these people and I know what this would do to me and my family if something of this magnitude happened here.
