Tim Costello update from Indonesian Earthquake zone (World Vision)
World Vision Australia CEO, Rev Tim Costello, gives an update from the ground in Indonesia where on 30 September 2009, an earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was 33km from the town of Padang where wide-scale destruction is being reported.
A second quake hit the area again on 1 October.
"The world looks to Australia to play a leadership role in the recovery of our closest neighbours World Vision CEO, Tim Costello said on the World Vision website shortly after disasters ravaged across the Asia Pacific - in Indonesia, in the Philippines, in Samoa and Tonga and Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia.
