Pumpkin festival helps achieve wishes
ANNUAL EVENT SUPPORTS MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
Green Haven Garden Centre opened up the gates Saturday afternoon to welcome families to the grounds for its 29th annual Giant Pumpkin Festival and Auction in support of the Lethbridge and area Children’s Make a Wish Foundation.
The event is the major fundraiser for Children’s Wish in the area which helps to grant wishes to children who are facing lifethreatening illnesses.
One woman was about to give birth. They were being treated outdoors due to continuing strong aftershocks, and many residents in the area were also sleeping outside, too afraid to return indoors. The city was eerily dark and quiet with no electricity and not even landline phones working.
A massive yellow suspension bridge crossing an estuary feeding into the bay was toppled — either by the earthquake or tsunami — and left lying on its side in the water.
Ismail said he was surprised that a tsunami was generated off the coast of central Sulawesi, which sits on a strike-slip fault, producing earthquakes that typically move in a horizontal motion and do not usually displace large amounts of water.
In contrast, temblors occurring where one tectonic plate is lodged beneath another — called subduction zones — can move large amounts of water vertically when the strain forces one plate to pop up or dive down. The force can create devastating tsunamis like the one in Sumatra and off Japan’s northeast coast in 2011.
But Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, a geologist with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, said the Sulawesi event is more complicated. While it occurred on a strike-slip fault, he said the part that ruptured was on a small segment that can move in a vertical motion. He said that could have triggered the tsunami, which also could have been created by an underwater landslide.
Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is prone to earthquakes because of its location on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.