{"id":20366,"date":"2021-01-21T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=20366"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:36:39","slug":"news-release-adra-provides-shelter-kits-to-thousands-reeling-from-three-earthquakes-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/news-release-adra-provides-shelter-kits-to-thousands-reeling-from-three-earthquakes-in-indonesia","title":{"rendered":"Pressemitteilung: ADRA stellt Tausenden von Menschen, die von drei Erdbeben in Indonesien betroffen sind, Unterkunftspakete zur Verf\u00fcgung"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDONESIA (January 21, 2021) \u2013 Three earthquakes rocked the west Sulawesi region of Indonesia from January 14 to 16, measuring at 5.9, 6.2 and 5.0 magnitudes on the Richter scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The districts of Mamuju, Majene, and Poliwali Mandar were impacted the most where reportedly 932 people were wounded and 84 casualties occurred. The earthquakes, which occurred at 2:35 pm, 1:28 am, and 8:32 am local time, caused landslides blocking roads in some areas and cutting off bridges. Additionally, more than 1,100 houses were flattened, including the governor\u2019s home, according to local reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buildings once occupied were devastated in the aftermath of three back-to-back earthquakes. <\/em>
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\u201cThe districts badly affected are inland, so there wasn\u2019t a tsunami warning, but many people were evacuated to the nearest hills as most of them lived near the coastal area,\u201d says Clinton Rappell, country director for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Indonesia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rappell says that ADRA is working with other NGOs to help coordinate relief efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe most urgent need for people is getting them to safe shelter. Most people are traumatized and are afraid to go inside their houses. Ever since the devastation of the Palu earthquake in 2018, the damage done is still fresh in their memory to this day,\u201d Rappell says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADRA has provided shelter kits to approximately 2,000 people. Shelter kits include heavy-duty tarps used to create walls and roofs, towelettes, sheets, and bedding items. The team in Indonesia is also collecting data on additional pressing needs of survivors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are also working with Adventist churches in the Mamuju districts, and an Adventist youth organization called Youth Emergency Services, or YES, to provide aid to church members with shelter, food items, hygiene kits and medicine,\u201d says Rappell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur work is just beginning once a natural disaster occurs, and no matter the crisis, we keep going because the need is great,\u201d Rappell says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indonesia is prone to earthquakes because it\u2019s located on the Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. A majority of the world\u2019s earthquakes occur in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updates on ADRA\u2019s relief efforts following the earthquakes in Indonesia can be found at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ADRA.Indonesia.Foundation\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalists who wish to learn more about this story, may email press@adra.org<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00dcber ADRA <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Das Adventistische Entwicklungs- und Hilfswerk ist der internationale humanit\u00e4re Arm der Kirche der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten, der in 118 L\u00e4ndern t\u00e4tig ist. Ihre Arbeit st\u00e4rkt Gemeinschaften und ver\u00e4ndert Leben rund um den Globus, indem sie nachhaltige Gemeinschaftsentwicklung und Katastrophenhilfe leistet. Das Ziel von ADRA ist es, der Menschheit zu dienen, damit alle so leben k\u00f6nnen, wie Gott es vorgesehen hat. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter ADRA.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vom 14. bis 16. Januar ersch\u00fctterten drei Erdbeben der St\u00e4rke 5,9, 6,2 und 5,0 auf der Richterskala die Region Westsulawesi in Indonesien.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[780,590,834,614],"tags":[741,1079,24,7,8],"class_list":["post-20366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-emergency","category-indonesia","category-news","tag-adventist-church","tag-crisis","tag-disaster-response","tag-earthquake","tag-emergency-response"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20366"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45960,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20366\/revisions\/45960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}