Category: Sulawesi

Indonesia Says Magnitude 7 Quake Off Sulawesi, Residents Flee Buildings

January 18, 2023
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JAKARTA—A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on Wednesday, prompting panicked residents in some towns nearest to the epicenter to flee buildings and with the tremor felt in the neighboring Philippines. Indonesia’s geophysics agency said, however, there was no risk of a tsunami, and the U.S.–based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in a bulletin…

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Discovery of 7,000-Year-Old Remains Unravels Some Mysteries to Unknown Group of Humans

August 30, 2021
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The ancient remains of a hunter-gatherer girl who died over 7,000 years ago in Indonesia, has revealed clues to a mysterious group of humans from the past. The discovery, made in 2015, in the Leang Panninge cave on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island is the first discovery of ancient human DNA in the region, known as Wallacea….

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Palm Sunday Bombing at Indonesian Catholic Church Leaves 9 Wounded

March 28, 2021
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JAKARTA—A suspected suicide bomber blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Palm Sunday, wounding nine people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, police and a witness said. The congregation had been inside the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral on the island of Sulawesi at the…

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Suicide Bomb Hits Palm Sunday Mass in Indonesia, 20 Wounded

March 28, 2021
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MAKASSAR, Indonesia—Two attackers blew themselves up outside a packed Roman Catholic cathedral during a Palm Sunday Mass on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, wounding at least 20 people, police said. A video obtained by The Associated Press showed body parts scattered near a burning motorbike at the gates of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar,…

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