As in 2004, the grief for those lost is felt by all. Sympathies to any surviving relative or friend.

September 29, 2018
By Kate Lamb

At least 384 people (click here)
have died after a magnitude-7.5 earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami.

Athonius Gunawan Agung, an air traffic controller who jumped off a tower roof as it was collapsing while waving out the last flight from Palu airport on Friday night, was one of the first casualties of the disaster.

The 21-year-old broke several bones, including an arm and a leg as he jumped off the tower. His employers sent a helicopter to ferry him to another city for treatment, but he died 20 minutes before it arrived....

What occurred with the buoys? Did they help? The number dead is far, far less than the Christmas Tsunami. Can it be made to perform better? 

In this Nov. 15, 2005 file photo, (click here) a buoy which is a part of a tsunami warning system developed by GITEWS (German-Indonesian Contribution for the Installation of a Tsunami Warning System) floats in on the sea as German R.V. Sonne is seen in the background during an installation simulation on Sunda straits off Java island, Indonesia. Indonesia's tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of funding. Now Indonesian and U.S. scientists say they've developed a way to dispense with the expensive buoys and possibly add crucial extra minutes of warning for vulnerable coastal cities. (AP Photo/Fadlan Arman Syam, File)...